Example sentences of "'re trying [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're trying to sell everything off are n't they ? |
| 2 | Ask anyone who 's had anything to do with pen computers and , unless they 're trying to sell you one , they 'll say the same thing . |
| 3 | We 're not saying you ca n't do it because we 're trying to say you need to be aware of these problems because we need to find solutions to some of them , erm and A L O work is definitely one of them , that report from the home office and the D V suggests quite categorically that er that there should be a crime prevention input into all planning applications . |
| 4 | Well you 're trying to say you have n't got any homework ? |
| 5 | And then she 's , you 're trying to feed her and the , the dinner 's all over the place . |
| 6 | ‘ But it 's the kind of thing you 're trying to push me towards . |
| 7 | I still think that neighbourhood watches does what we 're doing is we 're pushing it out to Hertfordshire and the Metropolitan area and they 're trying to push it elsewhere , and then , you know , we 're just |
| 8 | you 'll hear , you 'll listen because you want to find out what the other party 's views are relative to where you 're trying to take them . |
| 9 | Now as soon as you 've got a minus X and you 're trying to take it over to one side , and you 're trying to bring the other one over , there 's a good chance that something 's going |
| 10 | You 're trying to take it away with all these dentists and bone men and switching her side in bed . |
| 11 | They 're trying to pick it off and doing it on the big grass . |
| 12 | Goddess , I ca n't believe the way you 're trying to scrape me off your hands ! |
| 13 | erm And as I said , we 're trying to , not that I 'm giving the opposite view to Doctor Plumtree , as I said , we 're trying to fund the people on the front line , you know , the foresters in their back yard , as it were , we 're trying to preserve it , and we also feel we 're not being patronising , it 's not like we 're writing out a large cheque and saying ’ here you are ’ , we 're actually putting a lot of time and effort into this , I mean , it 's now become a full time job for me and certainly for Dave Kester , and all the other people working on it . |
| 14 | The second point is that I 've , the Americans I , I , it 's one of the promises about street life in second from the bottom , two weeks in the winter , four weeks in the summer , well I know to my cost erm through my ear being blasted which is why you 're a County Councillor anyway , that it 's been six weeks at the present time , we 've had a lot of lights going down , okay we 're trying to improve it , we had people walking into cars , er , er a few burglaries which I 'm pleased to say the police have helped out in , but if we 're going to change and get it down from a level of six weeks to two weeks as it is in the area I represent , is that not a question of putting extra resources in it and there 's no good putting promises unless we can deliver . |
| 15 | ‘ I think you 're trying to trip me up . ’ |
| 16 | It 's , it 's one thing legislating , it 's a completely different ball game when you are , erm , trying to enfor enforce it , and especially when you 're trying to enforce it with ingredients imported from abroad . |
| 17 | Groups can monopolise a route for hours like this , or , worse still , drop someone on your head while you 're trying to lead it ! |
| 18 | They 're trying to stop me ever seeing him again . |
| 19 | And this is why we 're trying to stop them coming in . |
| 20 | They 're trying to stop it . |
| 21 | and we did n't think , and sort of , then we realized that had to sort of like turn it off and that might help a bit , but boiling water , we 're trying to stop it with our finger . |
| 22 | Now we 're trying to replace it , to reproduce the same conditions . |
| 23 | I I 's thinking well this long would make the blinking situation worse and we 're trying to resolve it . |
| 24 | They 're trying to kill their ma-qui . |
| 25 | ‘ You 're trying to kill me with cholesterol and all that E rubbish , ’ he said and stormed out . |
| 26 | I mean I suppose there is in all social work in a sense , that if you go in to look at a family and , and you 're trying to assess you know whether the children should be taken into care , well you 're exercising a a sort of statutory erm er sort of responsibility , and as far as the clients are concerned , er if you , like that can sort of get in the way of er er a more human sort of relationship if you see what I mean , because |
| 27 | does n't quite understand it as well as you do and you 're trying to explain it to him . |
| 28 | It 's very amusing , and you 've explained it amusingly to us , but er , there 's a lot of truth , I think in er , what you say and er how can we , er make the best of these unwelcome guests who insist on turning up at the most inopportune times , when we 're trying to enjoy ourselves . |
| 29 | You 're in middle of an exam , you 're trying to do everything very quickly , and there 's a great long screed of text |
| 30 | It may be at a , at a truly rational level we can all perfectly well do all kinds of other things rationally on a truly rational level , because there we have this this er high degree of that comes with rationality , but at a deeper , kind of gut level , the emotional feelings we , we find that it 's , it 's much more difficult , and at that point if you do n't try and change things and do things that are unnatural , you find you 're kind of going against the emotional grain and er perhaps some people find it easier than others , but perhaps everybody will feel a certain erm tug as it were , certain erm discomfort or a certain emotional alienation from themselves which er perhaps is because we 're trying to do something more basic we just were n't designed for . |