Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're trying to kill me with cholesterol and all that E rubbish , ’ he said and stormed out . |
| 2 | I had problems with tutors trying to encourage me to diversity my work and experiment with other styles , but I was quite happy with the direction my work was heading so I stubbornly stuck to it . |
| 3 | I had problems with tutors trying to encourage me to diversity my work and experiment with other styles , but I was quite happy with the direction my work was heading so I stubbornly stuck to it . |
| 4 | Also because Susan Hart had been trying to reach me through my office . |
| 5 | Moreover , as the joker in the pack , the only person without a partner , I was a subject of general interest , and to make matters still worse , Lynn Carter had conceived a pallid intellectual crush on me and was always hanging around trying to engage me in conversation . |
| 6 | What are you trying to bully me into saying , Luke ? ’ |
| 7 | If only I were capable of taking over Swift myself , but I 'm not , I never was , I never will be — I just could n't face it , all the pressure , the ruthless cut-throat ambition of everyone trying to stab me in the back and take my place … |
| 8 | The cause of this was somebody trying to spear me with a javelin , but a javelin with a yellow pennant tied to it . |
| 9 | I think she is trying to console me with foot for not being a very good writer . |
| 10 | ‘ Pleased to meet you — we 're not taking your piece after all , ’ a lady sub-editor smiled , trying to put me at my ease . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're just trying to put me in the wrong , are n't you ? |
| 12 | And every time a bolt from the blue heads in your direction , you must ask yourself : What is this trying to awaken me to ? |
| 13 | ‘ Forget about Papa and trying to protect me from the truth . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 — ’ |
| 15 | Susan trying to kiss me on the arse right and I fucking farted ! |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Goddess , I ca n't believe the way you 're trying to scrape me off your hands ! |
| 18 | ‘ What were you trying to teach me in this Lord ? ’ |
| 19 | Exactly , they 're trying to screw me for every single penny they can get out of me |
| 20 | When I tried to lead her indoors she became indignant , shaking me off , ‘ Do you call yourself my niece , trying to get me into a burning house ! ’ and it took me some time to persuade her that all was well . |
| 21 | Of course G.P. was always trying to get me into bed . |
| 22 | I do n't want stop trying to get me in a |
| 23 | The brick was wrapped in two notes , the first apologised for the mess and the second , bearing Trevor Proby 's signature , offered to lend me the £250 the club are still trying to stitch me for after that car boot sale fiasco . |
| 24 | ‘ But it 's the kind of thing you 're trying to push me towards . |
| 25 | So it was something in my subconscious trying to push me from infantile dependency to maturation that brought it about that , in the dream , I could not find the inn again . |
| 26 | ‘ She 's trying to take me for everything I 've got , my friend , ‘ he said . |
| 27 | There was cramp in my neck and arms and I was so tired that it seemed almost as if a malevolent magnetism was trying to drag me to the ground . |
| 28 | ‘ Yeah , and a long memory ; I still have n't forgiven you for not trying to rescue me on the ice that time . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ And , while I appreciate your charitable intent in trying to comfort me for Lotta 's absence from my bed , I tell you once more that the time when I might have needed consolation for Lotta 's tricks has long since passed , and the fact that I 've chosen to live the life of a monk for the past six months is because until the past few days I have felt no desire to give in to the temptations paraded before me . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ No , ’ she went on coolly , ‘ do n't waste your time trying to warn me off Rob . |