Example sentences of "be try [verb] me [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I think you 're trying to trip me up . ’
2 They 're trying to stop me ever seeing him again .
3 Christopher 's voice broke into her thoughts : ‘ You 're trying to put me off . ’
4 ( ‘ They 're trying to fit me up for burglary this time ’ .
5 They 're trying to buy me off in hopes I 'll bow to their idiotic new arrangements without a bleat . ’
6 ‘ You mean you 're trying to buy me off ? ’
7 You 're trying to stand me up .
8 they 're trying to send me on
9 ‘ You 're trying to get me off with her , ’ he said .
10 ‘ You 're trying to get me tight ! ’
11 As soon as I came on the pitch the Rovers defenders were trying to push me inside .
12 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 .
13 This bloke they are trying to set me up with .
14 ‘ You 've been trying to ease me out , Charles .
15 I can recognise a set-up when I see one , and you , Mr Burns , have been trying to set me up .
16 After all , the press have been trying to marry me off for years . ’
17 Minginish has been trying to keep me here , in the Rorim .
18 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 .
19 He sticks it on his head and gives a big grin , like he 's trying to cheer me up .
20 What a fool , he 's trying to teach me how to suck eggs , thought Blackbeard .
21 I do n't know it 's just I think he 's trying to make me out as a bad mother
22 She 's trying to win me back now , being nice to you and what's-his-name . ’
23 She rubs the tops of my legs like I 'm cold and she 's trying to warm me up .
24 But no , the kids had stopped laughing they all say she 's trying to tell me off ! !
25 ‘ Because someone was trying to set me up .
26 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 .
27 He was trying to put me off the scent , perhaps , trying to explain , trying to seem reasonable .
28 You was trying to butter me up were n't you ?
29 When I eventually realized that he was trying to chat me up , I decided to end the conversation and get off the train .
30 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 .
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