Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] [pers pn] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the intricacies , I know more about Europe , eventually , and other countries , due to not being having a a briefing by a Headmaster for half an hour of something The group of us , he had eight to ten of us in the room trying to prime us on what we 'd missed for a year . |
| 2 | In spite of trying to help them on the voyage , Margery was left alone at Dover . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're just trying to do it on our own terms . |
| 4 | I 'm not trying to put them on an equal par , but later Maxwell erm Action Group were concerned with four hundred and eighty million disappearing . |
| 5 | Susan trying to kiss me on the arse right and I fucking farted ! |
| 6 | I 've had a couple of stormy sessions with the old rascal trying to keep him on the beam . ’ |
| 7 | If you try saying ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ with a level tone ( rather as though you were trying to sing them on a steady note ) you may find the result does not sound natural , and indeed English speakers do not use level tones on one-syllable utterances very frequently . |
| 8 | if it 's really tight , slipping the clutch in first and what I 'm trying to do is I 'm trying to control it on the accelerator , you ca n't do it . |
| 9 | Mind , he 'd crashed in on the situation pretty damn quickly , stepping in and being nice to her almost before she had dried her eyes , trying to get her on the rebound . |
| 10 | he gets fed up trying to get it on the drive |
| 11 | Always trying to blame it on Man , as if God had nothing whatsoever to do with it . |
| 12 | They 're trying to blame it on the parents but you do n't get a set of |
| 13 | ‘ Yeah , and a long memory ; I still have n't forgiven you for not trying to rescue me on the ice that time . ’ |