Example sentences of "trying make " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she 's trying make us be friendly with her ! |
| 2 | I was trying make a dive and missed it |
| 3 | And er that puts some obligation on Notts next week and then er in December to do well when they 're in Italy erm also an obligation to do well now , but bu get back to the point I 'm trying make . |
| 4 | ‘ If your child dislikes taking medicines , trying making it ‘ fun ’ — for instance , make it part of a teddy bears ' tea party . |
| 5 | Can you see the point I am trying to make ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I would not to-morrow , for the sake of a united Ireland , give up the policy of trying to make this a really Irish Ireland — not by any means . |
| 8 | I sometimes think , he wrote , that if in one sense I am back in the nursery trying to make a big toy with nothing but wood and string , in another I am back in the classroom fiddling with bunsen burners while Mr Alexander walks round sniffing with his long distinguished nose in the air . |
| 9 | Girls are always trying to make you feel sorry for them , but they ca n't fool me . |
| 10 | I said something like , well , I was trying to make her feel at ease , oh , something like , we could make a habit of this , and just have fun , Lucy . |
| 11 | The point I am trying to make from all this is that to win a karate bout needs two things — your ability to defeat the opponent and the referee panel 's ability to recognise your superior performance . |
| 12 | As Cameron surveyed the crowd , trying to make a rough count , he saw some women cracking stone bottles against their cudgels , stripping off their stockings , and packing them with shards and handfuls of gravel from the forecourt . |
| 13 | Next day and the day after that Mr Flemyng rode his horse along the slope south of the town , as though to exercise his dogs , and looked down at the site through an opera-glass , trying to make out whether the workmen were forming a mob . |
| 14 | ( In the days of Bertrand de Born , Aquitaine of course was a province of the English crown ; Eleanor of Aquitaine , the princess whose marriage to an English King brought this about , is one of the femmes fatales of the Cantos ; and Richard Coeur de Lion , trying to make good his claim to all this part of France , was killed at Chalus — a place in this area to which the Cantos refer repeatedly in connection with the King 's death . ) |
| 15 | I was trying to make out what sort of creature I was going to be living with ’ . |
| 16 | I 'm trying to make it more beautiful and transform it into the language of clothes . |
| 17 | ‘ When you are always trying to make your best shots you sometimes miss . |
| 18 | I am just trying to make up my mind whether to stay overnight with my cousin Katy McKay or walk to Achnacarry . ’ |
| 19 | Or were we trying to make meagre the devotions of minds which were helped to pray by colour and symbol ? |
| 20 | so before you start trying to make contact with the press , try to figure out what is engaging or unusual about you . |
| 21 | Eliot sees himself as an orthodox writer , trying to make his audience aware of the need to contribute to their own living tradition . |
| 22 | I remember trying to make sense out of these ghostly darting signs that overlaid the story of the film , which most of the time I could n't follow . |
| 23 | The tensions involved in trying to make that quasi-federal arrangement work proved too great for Obote . |
| 24 | I told her that oiling was not our job and that management was always trying to make us do more work for the same pay . |
| 25 | This sounds as if I were either sick of it myself or else trying to make you sick of it ; but neither is the case . |
| 26 | It happened once while he was trying to make up his mind to do a very dangerous job in the last war . |
| 27 | An increasing number of suppliers of deep-fat fryers and accessories are trying to make the potentially messy process of filtration easier for caterers and many of their latest products reflect this awareness . |
| 28 | He was joined there by Amanda 's brother , Norton ( now Lord Romsey ) , and his fiancée , Penelope Eastwood ; and although the cousins had never been especially friendly before , a strong bond grew between them as they talked day after day , trying to make sense of it all . |
| 29 | But BitC was an outfit with drive , enthusiasm , and a determination to make the sort of changes in society that Charles had been trying to make for years . |
| 30 | He 's trying to make out that I gave it to him when I gave him a spoonful of that … stuff … |