Example sentences of "try to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I always try to be nice to the kids . |
| 2 | ‘ I try to be accurate , sir , ’ said the Inspector modestly . |
| 3 | You try to be honest with yourself . |
| 4 | Try to be honest with your use of the table and do n't attempt to run before you can walk . |
| 5 | You are sensitive , you are eager , you try to be honest , you manage to be both your age and natural and a little priggish and old-fashioned at the same time . |
| 6 | I try to be friendly . |
| 7 | I try to be unemotional , without much success . |
| 8 | I try to be receptive , allowing images to develop in my mind . |
| 9 | ‘ But double-checking does no harm , and as you say , we try to be thorough . |
| 10 | Over the years I suppose I 've become known as a dotty naturalist but I try to be rational and I think it 's a pity the Greens are n't more practical . |
| 11 | However , the AIB inspectors always try to be helpful and provide the coroner with the basic information he needs to establish the cause of death , but nonetheless , they sometimes get little thanks for the efforts they make to assist the coroner and sometimes they are treated in a rather off-hand manner . |
| 12 | EC information centres in national capitals try to be helpful but are frequently understaffed , understocked and ill-informed by Brussels . |
| 13 | Always try to be incisive . |
| 14 | The opposite defence is to sit dead still and try to be invisible . |
| 15 | and I try to be serious on some and I look miserable . |
| 16 | But I try to be indifferent to the slurs of face , pointedness of nose . |
| 17 | But I try to be indifferent to the slurs of my enemies . |
| 18 | ‘ Try to be professional about this ! ’ |
| 19 | We really try to be clean-cut and poppy , but it does n't work — we f— up somewhere . |
| 20 | She must look about her again , and try to be useful too . |
| 21 | I try to be selective on purpose so the productions are realistic like kitchen sink drama because people can relate to it , ’ said Hanson . |
| 22 | Anyway , you simply hand over everything you 've got and try to be polite with it , by which I mean do n't tell him how to do his own job . |
| 23 | cream and grow potatoes and all this and probably they have bees and sell honey and you know they eat er they really try to be self- sufficient sort of community as much as they can . |
| 24 | I do n't want him to worry , so I try to be bright and keep going . ’ |
| 25 | Never try to be funny . |
| 26 | I never used to prepare a question , I just used to turn up , think ‘ This is good ’ and have a drink with them and try to be funny about it later . ’ |
| 27 | And when again Millie stood close by her side she looked down on her and said , ‘ Never try to be funny at other people 's expense . |
| 28 | I do n't know who they are — famous men , dead and living , who 've fought for the right things and created and painted in the right way , and unfamous people I know who do n't lie about things , who try not to be lazy , who try to be human and intelligent . |
| 29 | Self-evaluation , no matter how carefully the staff and governors try to be objective , lacks the valuable insight of someone genuinely on the outside looking in . |
| 30 | Make sure you sit down and fill the form in every evening , after your child has gone to bed , and try to be objective . |