Example sentences of "try say be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " My dear , what the marquis is trying to say is that young women on their own often have to sell their bodies in order to eat . " |
| 2 | ‘ I suppose what I 'm trying to say is that … |
| 3 | What I 'm trying to say is that yo , i now you got ta order another to , forty six . |
| 4 | yeah , what I 'm trying to say is that , that the Germans , on one German captured about four hundred blokes |
| 5 | but basically what , what , what I 'm trying to say is that erm , you know , it 's nineteen twenty seven , the world depression has n't happened yet erm and he 's assuming that you know , well you , you just said downtrodden masses for thousands of years I 'd say , you know , balls to that |
| 6 | Apart from qualifying for Pseuds Corner in Private Eye and avoiding the use of plain English , what Rumbold was trying to say was that British youth had just discovered trainers in the late Eighties . |