Example sentences of "'re [adv] trying [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they ask me Sir , they 're just trying to make a monkey out of you . |
| 2 | We 're not picking on you we 're just trying to get a conversation going here like , but it 's very hard when you just sit there and say nothing . |
| 3 | They 're still trying to establish a motive for the stabbing of Richard Miles , who was found dead in his garden . |
| 4 | They 're also trying to contact a series of YTS workers . |
| 5 | They 're also trying to contact a series of YTS workers . |
| 6 | If you 're seriously trying to arrange a trip I 'd be interested in popping up ( a good excuse to visit my parents in sunny Harrogate ) . |
| 7 | Because , what you 're going back to , just reemphasizing the point earlier , you 're speaking one-to-one , you 're not trying to convince a , a group of , of , of councillors , you 're trying to actually convey a message and , yes , you 're trying to convince , but you 're actually trying to convey a message doing one-to-one interview , across to people who know nothing about it , whereas councillors purport to know something about it . |
| 8 | that at the same time you 're actually trying to assume a policy of equality ? |