Example sentences of "be trying to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're trying to ‘ pretty it up ’ , making periods less shocking , or whatever they think they are . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , Henry , ’ said Elinor , now blocking her mouth with the palm of her hand and moaning elaborately , ‘ you 're trying to be funny ! |
| 3 | ‘ You can exclude me from the all round , Mother ; and I think it 's a little late for you to say you 're trying to be calm and helpful . |
| 4 | When you 're trying to custom fit each solo to the mood of the track , how much attention do you pay to the lyrical topic that Dave Mustaine is addressing , and his approach to it emotionally ? |
| 5 | Any time you do a record , or any time you practise anything new , you 're trying to be better at what you do . |
| 6 | Most advertising applies a lot of peer group pressure : if you are the successful executive you 're trying to be , you must fly British Airways rather than the red-eye . |
| 7 | Talbot said : ‘ If you 're trying to be encouraging , Professor , you 're not doing too well at it . ’ |
| 8 | I think there 's a great cult of perfection amongst women , that they 're trying to be all |
| 9 | for all the wrong reasons , so we 're trying to sort of pick a number of tests which will determine whether there 's a problem with air conditioning and it 's humidity or or er or if the temperature . |
| 10 | tha , that 's , that 's the activity that we 're trying to sort of resume erm |
| 11 | And you think well of course it would would n't it you know you 're trying to you get to the stage you can believe me you get to the stage quite quickly where you ca n't understand why other people do n't see it . |
| 12 | I said , ‘ Oh for Chris'sakes , shut up I know you 're trying to be nice to me and help me , but please do n't because you 're just giving me a headache . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm not , not really quite sure what we 're trying to a get . |
| 14 | Erm we 've er we you 'll be looking at education , our biggest service , and a service which we should which is going through some very profound changes at the moment where we 're trying to er increase the resources that are within individual schools so that they can make their own decisions erm about er how they best meet the needs of their youngsters . |
| 15 | They 're trying to er knock or they were trying to knock News at Ten on the head . |
| 16 | But I was thrown into this Guild secretary business and er you ca n't do both , not when you 're trying to erm a family and then by then my son was away and erm I went got a job and the Co-op gave me a job . |
| 17 | You 're in a mess , William , and you 're trying to be devious with me . |
| 18 | ‘ I think you 're trying to be honest , ’ Henry said . |
| 19 | I mean if you , you 're the burglar now and you 're planning to break in a house , and you 're looking around at the different houses and you 're trying to , one of the many things you 're trying to do is to establish whether they 're in or out . |
| 20 | just just yarning You 're trying to d divert attention erm erm disturb discrepancies . |
| 21 | So , it 's no good er me looking up in some book Theresa 's dreams if I could decipher it like some kind of code in which every single thing in the laten in the manifest content represented something latent for what we 're trying to then kind of decode as in a code book because er that 's not valid , at least it 's not valid in general terms . |
| 22 | And secondly we do recognize the quality of the countryside South of Cleveland and need to retain its character and the lit the character of its villages which erm in fact do add to the attractions of the area when you 're trying to e erm bring in new industry . |
| 23 | Well we 're trying to . |
| 24 | Erm , obviously one needs to change peoples ideas or change the way we do things or whatever , erm two relevant position that 's sort of making them believe in what they 're trying to erm , propose , and getting commitment at the end . |
| 25 | And in itself , that creates in the other party , whoever it is you 're trying to er to influence , their responses er , and reactions which will be positive to yours . |
| 26 | Well I do n't know yet , we 're trying to sort that one out , we 're trying to either put the load back or get another order to go with it . |
| 27 | I think this is one of the chairman because there was so many horrendous forecasts in the summer and autumn about the S S A that when it was announced you know we thought it was goods news and of course it was n't , erm so this is why they 're trying to be prudent and we have kept in our proposals to the erm , has already mentioned that er , thank god , the er democratic growth has been covered this year and so on , erm , plenty of other things that we would like to see erm to comply with the government 's own legislation erm but they where with all . |
| 28 | Here they 're trying to literally redesign people 's jobs . |
| 29 | Erm , and now we 're trying to side-track into , just pile everything on to him , he loves it , he thinks it 's wonderful . |
| 30 | You 're trying to be everything and they 're pushing it away cos it 's not what they really want and they , I mean , all , all you can get from him is how marvellous , you 're right , how marvellous his brothers are and yet , what I 've heard of the brothers they 're not |