Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | His friends and colleagues were trying to persuade him at the time that this would not be wise — what on earth would happen to the British election campaign if the country had to go to war in the Gulf half-way through ? |
| 2 | Merrill sensed that he was trying to put her at her ease , building a bridge over the rift that divided them , to get the evening off to a good start . |
| 3 | ‘ Pleased to meet you — we 're not taking your piece after all , ’ a lady sub-editor smiled , trying to put me at my ease . |
| 4 | an electro cardiograph , it 's a tracing of the electrical il impulses from the heart given off by the heart and this chap came in he 'd never had one before and he was nervous anyway , so I 'm trying to put him at his ease and I , I put , you have to put like a rubber band round their arms and legs and attach erm electrodes to them , you do n't feel anything , you 're only measuring the electrical impulses given off by the heart |
| 5 | Alan , I 'm sorry if I 'm sort of trying to put you at the end and continue and I I do n't intend it like that . |
| 6 | Its owner , Okan Guney , has been trying to breed them at this home in Kidlington for two years . |
| 7 | The client does not know what to expect and it is your responsibility to ensure that he or she does not waste time trying to contact you at inappropriate times . |
| 8 | He maintained that Philip was trying to keep him at war in Scotland ‘ so that he might not pursue his rights elsewhere ’ . |
| 9 | This is very contrary to our traditional view of trying to segment and fragment the information and trying to keep it at the business specific level or trying to keep it at the corporate level . |
| 10 | This is very contrary to our traditional view of trying to segment and fragment the information and trying to keep it at the business specific level or trying to keep it at the corporate level . |
| 11 | The tremendous variation in the experiences of First , Second and Third World countries in terms of income , population , foreign trade , resources , quality of life and blocs might lead the faint-hearted to conclude that the global system either does not exist or that it is so hopelessly complex that there is no point in trying to conceptualize it at all . |
| 12 | I 'm just trying to get them at the back did you know ? |