Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] [pers pn] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they were then held in remand in prison , and did n't really know how to defend themselves , so this project will be sending lawyers into the Long Houses of the indigenous peoples , trying to educate them about the process of Malaysian law , and work it into their system of customary law , which is known as ADAT , whereby within the Long House , all the community leaders and the members within the community debate disputes over land rights , the forest , the use of it , and try and get them to use their customary law with a knowledge of the Malaysian legal process in order to form associations and fight being thrown into prison because they 're trying to defend the forest . |
| 2 | Was he trying to quiz you about last night ? ’ |
| 3 | Are you just a cabbage ? he wondered — brain-dead ? or are you trying to warn us about something ? |
| 4 | ‘ The way you weave in your own background , your own — um — illness , and that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about . |
| 5 | ‘ The way you weave in your own background , your own illness , and that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … you are facing up to yourself in a very moving and powerful way … ’ |
| 6 | ‘ That trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … ’ : here , almost fully out in the open now , brazenly direct , we come to the gangrenous core of the rotten , shit-smeared campaign directed at me . |
| 7 | ‘ That trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … ’ |
| 8 | As though the voice was directly in my ear again I surfaced out of the momentary haze to hear my agent saying ‘ that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ The way you weave in your own background , your own illness , and that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … ’ |
| 10 | Days later I realised he was trying to tell me about the Brighton bombing ; it had occurred the same morning . |
| 11 | What I 'm trying to tell you about is this . |
| 12 | That 's what I was trying to tell you about |