Example sentences of "[be] trying [verb] me [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think you 're trying to trip me up . ’ |
| 2 | Christopher 's voice broke into her thoughts : ‘ You 're trying to put me off . ’ |
| 3 | ( ‘ They 're trying to fit me up for burglary this time ’ . |
| 4 | They 're trying to buy me off in hopes I 'll bow to their idiotic new arrangements without a bleat . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You mean you 're trying to buy me off ? ’ |
| 6 | You 're trying to stand me up . |
| 7 | they 're trying to send me on |
| 8 | ‘ You 're trying to get me off with her , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Even at the age of about 13 I 'd be guided only by people who I thought knew something about the game , and who were not thing to stitch me up-I was always thinking people were trying to stitch me up for some reason . |
| 10 | This bloke they are trying to set me up with . |
| 11 | ‘ You 've been trying to ease me out , Charles . |
| 12 | I can recognise a set-up when I see one , and you , Mr Burns , have been trying to set me up . |
| 13 | After all , the press have been trying to marry me off for years . ’ |
| 14 | And my father was her shepherd so nobody asks us to their houses , so I never met people like this before and Aunt Emily is trying to bring me out and she 's so sweet , so generous . |
| 15 | He sticks it on his head and gives a big grin , like he 's trying to cheer me up . |
| 16 | I do n't know it 's just I think he 's trying to make me out as a bad mother |
| 17 | She 's trying to win me back now , being nice to you and what's-his-name . ’ |
| 18 | She rubs the tops of my legs like I 'm cold and she 's trying to warm me up . |
| 19 | But no , the kids had stopped laughing they all say she 's trying to tell me off ! ! |
| 20 | ‘ Because someone was trying to set me up . |
| 21 | I knew he was trying to cheer me up but I was determined to go back to my knitting lessons when the vultures had gone . |
| 22 | He was trying to put me off the scent , perhaps , trying to explain , trying to seem reasonable . |
| 23 | You was trying to butter me up were n't you ? |
| 24 | When I eventually realized that he was trying to chat me up , I decided to end the conversation and get off the train . |
| 25 | Somebody was trying to freak me out , and , from what I could gather , it might well have something to do with the Quigleys , with Veronica and this Mrs Danby . |
| 26 | She was trying to frighten me off , of course . |
| 27 | Pointy-Beard was somewhere underneath me and was trying to roll me out from under Armstrong . |
| 28 | ‘ He was trying to keep me out of it . ’ |