Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says I 'm trying to increase me bust , he says put it down he says all you need is a couple of pieces of toilet tissue and rub it between the gap |
| 2 | I fear that if we are tempted to act as Opposition Members are trying to tempt me to do now , we might jeopardise the Bill 's progress . |
| 3 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 4 | You were trying to help me put the names in place , without finishing it off . |
| 5 | I did n't want them fussing , trying to persuade me to give up and come home … ! ’ |
| 6 | They were both trying to persuade me to continue with the radiotherapy and drugs . ’ |
| 7 | One couple who own an apartment in the south of Spain are even trying to persuade me to go there . |
| 8 | Gizzmo keeps trying to persuade me to go with her but I do n't really want to . |
| 9 | What you witnessed that night was Melanie trying to persuade me to perform the operation for her — or , failing that , to get someone else to do it as a favour . ’ |
| 10 | I ordered it in advance to stop Robert trying to persuade me to stay on . ’ |
| 11 | Like a bloody judge and jury , trying to persuade me to have it . |
| 12 | If they are trying to use me to get something for the museum , then I shall think of something else . |
| 13 | There he was , trying to blackmail me to leave the company or face a false charge of fraud , and I knew so much about his underhand behaviour . |
| 14 | And so he 's the one who started doing this — I do n't know if you remember Rolling Stone during that period he started getting slight , not really new wave , but we used some of the constructivist thing of breaking pages somewhat and pushing things on angles or erm My favourite was his Bob Dylan spread which actually I did , but it was based on what he was trying to get me to do , where everything read left to right and everything was , you know , point sizes lined up and everything was on a column grid , but it was , when you looked at it you had to , you know , like focus on it . |
| 15 | If he did , it was n't surprising he was trying to get me Confirmed in Faith . |
| 16 | When I first joined Fleetwood Mac , Mick ( Fleetwood ) kept trying to get me to use a pick , but fingerpicking is the only way I can do it . ’ |
| 17 | Sometimes he grunted at me as if trying to get me to say something , but always I had to give him the same classroom answer : ‘ Ich verstehe nicht . ’ |
| 18 | What are you trying to get me to believe now ? |
| 19 | comes back and says when the teacher come , the teacher was there this time , urgh the showers are on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and then they all start chanting Geoffrey switched the showers on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and er , loads of them , not just him , a load of them did it , and he , he started to cry , and then that was it then were n't it , ooh tiny tears , tiny tears , ooh poofter , poofter , crying and all that I mean he had a right day with it , so he goes to school this morning in Geography and the every body in the class , the girls and every body were going tiny tears , tiny tears , and he said I just ignored it today he says I just took no notice he says , but they 're all going , how 's your tears Geoffrey , are we going to cry again today , he says and they were trying to get me to cry today he says , but I just took no notice and Stuart kept going like this Geoff and he says I just went so he , he did the same back and then he went Geoff and Geoffrey just went , I mean what you do ? , |
| 20 | I still do not know whether Mick 's approach to the rules , trying to get me to break them one minute , and pointing an accusing finger the next , was a friendly tease or not . |
| 21 | I could tell mum was leaning forward , trying to get me to meet her eyes , but I just frowned , and with my moistened finger-tip cleared my plate . |
| 22 | Cos people often used to say to me because I 'd , I 'd played everything you could play except golf , and , and er , and I , I , people used to say you did two men 's work and you I , I met a chap one day , this was an instance , I 'm not trying to blow me trumpet do n't think that at all . |
| 23 | ‘ Are you trying to stop me seeing him ? |
| 24 | Now you 're trying to make me pay . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It fulfilled none of my expectations and seemed to be merely trying to make me laugh at the fact that it had left me standing there grasping at nothing . |
| 28 | And I was holding myself back , tha tha , Paul was looking and trying to make me laugh ! |
| 29 | She was , however , immensely enthusiastic and encouraging , trying to make me think of the enterprise as a holiday as well as a mission with a sad and serious purpose . |
| 30 | ‘ You 're trying to make me go , are n't you ? ’ |