Example sentences of "i be try to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The only difference between us is that I am trying to be , and you ca n't help it . ’ |
| 2 | When I am trying to be stricter than usual with myself , I plan a really busy week so that I am out more than is customary . |
| 3 | So maybe I am adding things on as ‘ an afterthought ’ , but , if I ca n't be a designer , I am trying to be a good technician . |
| 4 | I am trying to be as kind as possible to the Minister . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I am trying to be , ’ said Suleiman modestly . |
| 6 | I 'm trying to be clear . |
| 7 | And I 'm trying to be serious today . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm trying to be calm and … and helpful for us all round . ’ |
| 9 | I 'm trying to be relaxed like Frank Edwards [ also of Repton ] and get a lazy jab like his . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm trying to be nice . |
| 11 | I 'm trying to be honest about him , and about myself . |
| 12 | I 'm not being coy ; I 'm trying to be useful . |
| 13 | ‘ Matthew , I 'm trying to be very understanding and modern about this , but I want you to realize that for women of my generation , it 's difficult to accept the prevailing mores . ’ |
| 14 | No we get we get a lot of erm sort of similar questions I 'm no I 'm trying I 'm trying to be it 's only just me . |
| 15 | I 'm trying to be very good but er I can only so much of that ! |
| 16 | Yes and they they provided me with boxes of tapes and batteries and eh Walkman and so on and so forth and eh , I 'm trying to be conscientious . |
| 17 | I 'm going out tonight so I 'm trying to be well today . |
| 18 | Somewhere I had read that a gentleman is one who never causes pain ; perhaps I was trying to be a gentleman . |
| 19 | Dad was still convinced I was trying to be something — a lawyer , I 'd told him recently , because even he knew that that doctor stuff was a wind-up . |
| 20 | ‘ I was trying to be polite . |
| 21 | I was trying to be cool , but the statues were not funny to me . |
| 22 | Erm so on that one that 's , that 's you did n't use any slang , the belief in the way you asked I think that came out , I was trying to be a prospective client rather than be the trainer cos I could see that Mike was uncomfortable and I was trying to , well okay , how , how would I well I think yeah there was a belief that you had there , I think he was er reasonably attentive , Mike , to your response ? |
| 23 | I put it on the arm on the chair , I was trying to be clever and I sat down and it had like material there and I caught the material and I just sort , all fell down here , it 's a lovely smell . |