Example sentences of "[be] trying [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes it 's because it 's so many people that are using this method that the importance of what you 're trying to say tends to be dismissed and therefore . |
| 2 | This one erm it 's really good cos they 've like , got nice little rooms and tellies in room and like , if like , they come and they 're trying to like clean up , the cleaners 'll like , give them a cloth so they 'll think they 're helping an that . |
| 3 | Colleagues , could I just advise congress at this stage what we 're , we 've got ta do erm , and I think this will form the basis of what we 're trying to do to expedite business during the course of the week . |
| 4 | We 're trying to work to resolve that problem with minimal impact in the environment and that 's what my recommendations are leading to that 's what if it is approved my officers will be ensuring happens if it last twenty years . |
| 5 | If I , if I get another species next year nesting , that has n't nested before and I know it 's because of the effort of putting in reeds , trees , whatever I 've put in there , we 're , we 're trying to get to nest here , if they nest that 'll be really , er that 'll be a great thing because er they feed on the apple erm I thought somebody said er who said there was a hundred a seventy five here er a week ago and that 'd be great to get them to nest , be really good . |
| 6 | You 're trying to get rid of me , are n't you ? " |
| 7 | Number seven loads and loads and loads and loads of this moist toilet tissue cos we 're trying to get rid of it all so you 've got the lot . |
| 8 | It looks as if they 're trying to get rid of him . ’ |
| 9 | We 're trying to get rid of you |
| 10 | Mhm , and now they 're trying to fight to get him from there ! |
| 11 | I see no reason additionally why the independent people on the Board should not act to protect the company in the same way as they 're trying to help protect the other members . |
| 12 | You know what I 'm trying to do do n't you ? |
| 13 | Go on then you try and pull it out of us , that 's what I 'm trying to do look |
| 14 | I 'm trying to establish put down a figure of forty six thousand for migration . |
| 15 | I struggled to get him into bed and he started to do deep breathing exercises , which he knows I ca n't stand when I 'm trying to get to sleep . |
| 16 | Yeah I 'm trying to get rid of it , bit more left though , long time , it 's fucking too much |
| 17 | I 'm trying to help get rid of them , sorry . |
| 18 | What is important is that they should not be trying to enter publishing on an uncommercial basis , especially when there are such clear and obvious shortcomings in their performance in almost all the areas that are quite clearly their responsibility , and on which the future of British tennis depends . |
| 19 | " You mean , you think that Mr. Lennis may be trying to get rid of you ? " |
| 20 | English is the language of aviation and our native tongue , but some of the people we were trying to teach had a very poor comprehension of the language . |
| 21 | Two men with their backs to him were trying to force open the cash-register . |
| 22 | Several people ended up with wet feet and all the cats vanished and even the kids who were trying to help got the odd clout for ‘ gettin' under our feet ’ . |
| 23 | Well I did n't know they were trying to get rid of those . |
| 24 | I 'm sure he knew we were trying to get rid of him because he would n't go ! |
| 25 | The allegations stemmed from a letter received by BR 's area manager at Gloucester in November 1990 , in which a woman alleged that her son and a friend , while travelling from Stonehouse to Gloucester , were stopped by the steward and asked if they were trying to avoid paying their fare . |
| 26 | I am trying to avoid going that far : it does keep the ear occupied , at least for its duration , even if it does n't drift back into your consciousness afterwards , and these are solid , lusty performances by the Camerata quartet , a young Polish group , in impressively immediate recordings . |
| 27 | I would like to outline some of the major terms of the legislation , the far reaching implications it has for unemployed people and what we as a local group are trying to do to combat it . |
| 28 | I mean — it 's almost a 60% increase in the market over the last 10 years and that market is growing and here we have the one and only major car company owned by the British being threatened with closure when all the Japanese and the Germans and the French and the Americans are trying to expand to meet this growing market and it does n't make sense and that point came out very very strongly this afternoon . |
| 29 | Erm this can only exasasberate er an already difficult situation chairman , I do wonder whether the , the people that British Rail are trying to attract to use the service and , and do bear in mind that this County Council recently voted ten thousand pounds in subsidies er to er towards British Rail to enable people to travel on a Sunday . |
| 30 | In the north of France a number of UK owners are trying to get rid of homes , but this is not easy ; they are often the type of property not popular with the French . |