Example sentences of "trying to [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more people there are around , the less time I have to spend trying to be civil to Piers Morrison ! ’ |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | He does n't realize it fully yet , because he 's trying to be nice to me at the moment . |
| 4 | It 's trying to be nice to people that gets me into trouble — and it does n't help the people either . |
| 5 | Erm so I think this hearing on the sixteenth of July will be quite useful in trying to be able to i identify that this display unit relates to Newark and not to Mansfield . |
| 6 | But it was ‘ Tusk ’ that started me thinking along the lines of trying to be true to what I think 's interesting and not necessarily just what people want to hear . ’ |