Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you 're caught trying to help him escape you 'll be charged with aiding and abetting a wanted criminal . |
| 2 | For this reason we spend a lot of time with relatives trying to help them come to terms with the whole admission process . |
| 3 | You were trying to help me put the names in place , without finishing it off . |
| 4 | I 'm trying to help you survive Finlayson ! ’ |
| 5 | what I 'm trying to help you practise , cos we 're not , we 're very good at asking closed questions in conversations but do n't very often recognize , but you know , we , we we we , we 'll zip backwards and forwards , and that 's okay , but I want you to do consciously is know what type of questions you 're asking because you can sometimes be hitting a brick wall and thinking I 'm getting anywhere here and it 's because you 're asking too many closed questions . |
| 6 | Well I suppose you see maybe what they 're trying to do I mean as far as I know I mean previously the Inland Revenue or the valuation office part of the Inland Revenue they actually used to run a scheme where |
| 7 | All the people that I 've seen trying to do it have all my sympathy , because I know what they 've been going through . |
| 8 | I tried to get the trade unions into a form which made my managerial activities easier rather than trying to let them find a consensus between themselves . |
| 9 | ‘ Hope that you 'll finally understand what I 've been trying to let you know over the past few days without frightening you away by putting it into words . |
| 10 | If it 's the bolt of lightning , the thunderclap ? ’ he asked his mother , as gently as he could , trying to make her laugh . |
| 11 | ‘ So the behaviour you described last time — following Susie 's movements , going through her things — is your way of trying to make her stay ? ’ asked the counsellor . |
| 12 | ‘ He , too , had suffered under Miss Angus 's overbearing rule when he was at school , and he did not mind trying to make her look foolish . |
| 13 | Women , they argue , are always trying to make them stop doing things they most like doing ( getting messy , drinking , staying out late and so on ) just like their mothers used to . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're trying to make them think you 've been coming in to see me ? |
| 15 | Raise the eyebrows , forcing them up as far as you can as if trying to make them meet your hair line . |
| 16 | But that is no reason for trying to make them contradict each other . |
| 17 | Yeah , he was in agony there , so any way carry him to the toilet , sat him on the toilet and sort of sat there with him a bit trying to make him go a wee , cos I thought perhaps he full bladder and could n't |
| 18 | Alexia was trying to make him feel better . |
| 19 | Dr Benjamin Spock points out , however , that if an angry mother refrains from spanking she may show her irritation in other ways , for instance , by nagging the child for half the day or trying to make him feel deeply guilty . |
| 20 | Is n't he trying to make him feel guilty Manhom and this woman ? |
| 21 | ‘ I look a bit of a hag , ’ I said , trying to make him laugh . |
| 22 | ‘ She 's right , ’ said Dad , somewhat magisterially , when I went to him later and told him what she 'd said , trying to make him see how demented it was . |
| 23 | She loved this man , and he seemed determined , because of some misplaced sense of responsibility , to keep them together , yet she was trying to make him see that it just could n't be — for his own sake . |
| 24 | She put her head on one side , trying to make him understand from the look in her eyes that Stephen had been upset by the references to his mother 's death . |
| 25 | He urgently gripped and shook Hector 's shoulders , trying to make him believe . |
| 26 | The patient may find these activities both boring and frustrating , especially if you are constantly trying to make him concentrate on them as educational tasks . |
| 27 | She was willing to give evidence about his Mob links in 1970 ; today , she says he was an enthusiastic bisexual who involved J Edgar Hoover in sexual orgies just as the Kennedys were trying to make him take action against the Mob . |
| 28 | Everthorpe was getting a lot of mileage out of the mix-up , trying to make him look foolish . |
| 29 | Now you 're trying to make me pay . |
| 30 | OK , maybe it seems harsh , but I do n't think I 'm the only one who gets slightly bugged by dropouts trying to make me feel like I 'm insensitive and uncaring if I do n't pay for their drink . |