Example sentences of "[verb] be trying [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Minginish has been trying to keep me here , in the Rorim . |
| 2 | ‘ This was what Gran must have been trying to tell me , poor darling . |
| 3 | ‘ I believe he may have been trying to contact me . |
| 4 | And all everybody else seems to be doing is trying to stop me . ’ |
| 5 | But they adamantly refused to listen when I insisted that someone had been trying to kill me . |
| 6 | Also because Susan Hart had been trying to reach me through my office . |
| 7 | ‘ You 've been trying to ease me out , Charles . |
| 8 | ‘ Put your head and arm through , ’ he recommended , before adding , ‘ You 've been trying to avoid me . ’ |
| 9 | I can recognise a set-up when I see one , and you , Mr Burns , have been trying to set me up . |
| 10 | After all , the press have been trying to marry me off for years . ’ |