Example sentences of "you be try [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if you are trying to create a period shot or a specifically national look you may have to hire props . |
| 2 | He now realised that he needed to redefine his criteria for book selection to include material of broader interest than merely that which would fit in with his teaching : You buy your library books with a different set of criteria than the sort you use when you are trying to choose a textbook , and I had to restrain myself and think : " Well , I would n't like this , but maybe there is somebody who would . |
| 3 | Cutaways are a great help when you are trying to build a sequence of events over which you have little or no control . |
| 4 | The trouble is that tiptoeing is desperately uncomfortable when you are trying to win a war at the same time . |
| 5 | However , it will produce results as it stops the club rolling over and generating topspin — something you definitely do n't want when you are trying to play a shot which places a premium on accuracy . |
| 6 | " I know precisely how many patients we receive here each day , but you are trying to cram a lifetime into a month or so . |
| 7 | I mean , I 'm a bit cynical about great conferences , they 're important if you 're trying to set a tone , and they 're important if you want the press and the media involved , but actually it 's a smaller fora on the local basis , which actually produces much better results , in my opinion , but that 's the sort of thing I have in mind . |
| 8 | And , the people that were milling around us when you 're trying to drink a cup of coffee stood up last year it was just the , you know , people are not |
| 9 | Now you 're trying to save a document now . |
| 10 | ‘ Couple of my boys tell me you 're trying to earn a piece of that five grand I 'm putting up . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're trying to fight a war old boy . |
| 12 | " Only if you 're trying to catch a duke and your mother was a washerwoman , your father a baker . |
| 13 | Some do , er the rise and fall type of fitting over a dining table where when you 're er , er having dinner you 'd have erm it down to about what not more than twelve inches above the table er so that it lit the table but did n't shine in your eyes , erm some people leave it like that all the time , other people having had a meal lift er it up , erm I think the main thing about the , er adjustable fly and fall is that erm , it 's there for , as you want it , if you 're trying to find a meal you 've lost on the floor well then you pull it down to floor level really . |
| 14 | But you also need them in your team , because if you 're trying to solve a problem that is difficult , or what 's called a messy problem , we 'll come back to nice messy problems in a minute , you need somebody to come up with some good ideas , some ways of solving it . |
| 15 | ‘ You were trying to assess a guy 's character , whether he was clean and straight , and not going to double-cross you . ’ |
| 16 | Kick the front leg vigorously as if you were trying to attract a shark ! |
| 17 | ‘ I thought you were trying to find a cottage for Marcus , but Irina says you 're not . ’ |
| 18 | I heard from that she and you were trying to find a copy of the Style Sheet for the Quirk volume for . |
| 19 | So they do n't come along and say , please catch me , and if you were trying to if you were trying to find a fox or a badger , what would be the- what would be the difficulty ? |