Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] [pers pn] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just wonder what 's I last I heard they were the receiver was trying to pull it into the collapse but er |
| 2 | Despite fourteen years of trying to smash us into submission , they 'll fail to break the spirit of the working people of Britain . |
| 3 | Do something before it goes ! ’ she cried , catching his arm and trying to shake him into action . |
| 4 | Or was he just trying to provoke her into an argument for the sheer hell of it ? |
| 5 | ‘ He 's just trying to provoke you into giving an indiscreet answer that he can misquote … ’ |
| 6 | Tory planners think the Labour party is talking up a May or June poll , trying to bounce them into an election while interest rates are still high . |
| 7 | What are you trying to bully me into saying , Luke ? ’ |
| 8 | Kevin and Marie and I were trying to organise them into tribes and wagon trains so we could do the film when Julie sauntered up . |
| 9 | Behind me , Dennis had erected the punt-pole and was now drunkenly trying to lower it into the water . |
| 10 | Griffin further argued that it was wrong to attempt to explain girls ' experience by trying to fit them into models derived from studies of male youth . |
| 11 | However , when the courts are considering new situations , they will not be constrained by trying to fit them into existing categories . |
| 12 | Carlos and Francisco chatted to them for a while , but then Carlos had to patrol his area , which to him meant strolling around , able to approach and compliment all the prettiest girls , and subsequently trying to fit them into his tight evening schedule ! |
| 13 | You 'd have a problem trying to fit it into the sequence , would n't you ? |
| 14 | Moreover , such a policy would be seen to be libertarian , in that it genuinely trusted people to spend their own money in ways they prefer , rather than trying to bribe them into centrally determined consumption patterns . |
| 15 | What right did he have to come back into her life like this , trying to shatter it into little pieces that could n't be put back together for a second time ? |
| 16 | Two Scots with Cambridge connections took up Faraday 's work at last , trying to put it into mathematical form rather than to fit the discoveries into an existing theory ; and through their work came the great flowering of classical physics . |
| 17 | They soon gave up trying to draw her into conversation . |
| 18 | He stared at his companion 's round cherubic face and twinkling blue eyes and knew that Benstede was only trying to draw him into conversation . |
| 19 | And the new line of Mr Ryabov and his allies might be a cleverer tactic than the one used by Mr Khasbulatov : instead of opposing the president , Mr Ryabov might be trying to draw him into protracted haggling in order to dissipate the momentum the president won in the referendum . |
| 20 | We 're trying to shame you into thinking about it , about acting . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't know which is worse , that you do n't give a damn about respecting your commitment to her , or that you did n't think it would matter to me that you were — were trying to lure me into bed while all the time , you knew that you and she — ’ |
| 22 | As it turned out , his skills on the job have led to the department trying to regrade him into a more demanding post . |
| 23 | I refused to have a mastectomy and I see now in terms of theory , that I was stagemanaged at various points on the production line , into trying to turn me into a well-behaved patient by traumatising me by saying ‘ If you do n't do what we tell you … ’ or ‘ You 're being very naughty ’ or ‘ You 're being hysterical ’ , or ‘ We have n't got time to deal with all these questions , we 'd never get round ’ , and so on . |
| 24 | Having him there at the beginning was simply a stroke of luck so colossal that Henry 's natural pessimism was trying to turn it into a disaster . |
| 25 | • The Glasgow Sunday Mail reports on what is really a fishkeeping success — trying to turn it into a horror story . |
| 26 | She was always trying to turn it into something it was n't . |
| 27 | It 's trying to forget it , and trying to turn it into a more reassuring manifest content , so it starts to dream about it , but the latent thoughts are so disturbing it never succeeds and consequently the whole dream work , this process of disguising the latent content , just does n't get anywhere at all , except for a few minor details . |
| 28 | It should have been something that the Royal Shakespeare did and not Tennents trying to turn it into a West End night out . ’ |
| 29 | The policeman talked , the reporter trying to jog him into revelations and failing . |
| 30 | But her imagination continued to torment her , replaying this last scene over and over again , as if trying to force her into admitting that the only person in her life who really cared about her might be dead . |