Example sentences of "trying to make [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it 's the bolt of lightning , the thunderclap ? ’ he asked his mother , as gently as he could , trying to make her laugh . |
| 2 | ‘ So the behaviour you described last time — following Susie 's movements , going through her things — is your way of trying to make her stay ? ’ asked the counsellor . |
| 3 | ‘ He , too , had suffered under Miss Angus 's overbearing rule when he was at school , and he did not mind trying to make her look foolish . |
| 4 | Women , they argue , are always trying to make them stop doing things they most like doing ( getting messy , drinking , staying out late and so on ) just like their mothers used to . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're trying to make them think you 've been coming in to see me ? |
| 6 | Raise the eyebrows , forcing them up as far as you can as if trying to make them meet your hair line . |
| 7 | But that is no reason for trying to make them contradict each other . |
| 8 | Yeah , he was in agony there , so any way carry him to the toilet , sat him on the toilet and sort of sat there with him a bit trying to make him go a wee , cos I thought perhaps he full bladder and could n't |
| 9 | Alexia was trying to make him feel better . |
| 10 | Dr Benjamin Spock points out , however , that if an angry mother refrains from spanking she may show her irritation in other ways , for instance , by nagging the child for half the day or trying to make him feel deeply guilty . |
| 11 | Is n't he trying to make him feel guilty Manhom and this woman ? |
| 12 | ‘ I look a bit of a hag , ’ I said , trying to make him laugh . |
| 13 | ‘ She 's right , ’ said Dad , somewhat magisterially , when I went to him later and told him what she 'd said , trying to make him see how demented it was . |
| 14 | She loved this man , and he seemed determined , because of some misplaced sense of responsibility , to keep them together , yet she was trying to make him see that it just could n't be — for his own sake . |
| 15 | She put her head on one side , trying to make him understand from the look in her eyes that Stephen had been upset by the references to his mother 's death . |
| 16 | He urgently gripped and shook Hector 's shoulders , trying to make him believe . |
| 17 | The patient may find these activities both boring and frustrating , especially if you are constantly trying to make him concentrate on them as educational tasks . |
| 18 | She was willing to give evidence about his Mob links in 1970 ; today , she says he was an enthusiastic bisexual who involved J Edgar Hoover in sexual orgies just as the Kennedys were trying to make him take action against the Mob . |
| 19 | Everthorpe was getting a lot of mileage out of the mix-up , trying to make him look foolish . |
| 20 | Now you 're trying to make me pay . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And I was holding myself back , tha tha , Paul was looking and trying to make me laugh ! |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ You 're trying to make me go , are n't you ? ’ |
| 27 | He knew that I had some experience , but I think he was trying to make me relax and , perhaps , find out just how much I did or did n't know . |
| 28 | I remember dad running after me and having a long conversation trying to make me understand . ’ |
| 29 | That was your own fault for trying to make me get back into the car . |
| 30 | I had to finish because I started trying to make everybody laugh . |