Example sentences of "they be try [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was singing ; people only do that either if they are drunk or if they are trying to collect some money , in which case they will sing and sing all day , having no other means of getting it . |
| 2 | Erm , because the governments are trying to protect domestic industries through and erm , they are trying to do this by actually physically blocking imports so domestic consumers have to , have to buy from domestic producers rather than from abroad to stop the domestic industry declining . |
| 3 | ‘ Officially they are trying to identify any threat or risk . |
| 4 | They are trying to suggest that erm , somehow this year we 're cutting the police budget , he seems to have forgotten that last year when he was chairman of the police authority , a three hundred thousand pound cut , a genuine cut was made in the police authority budget , budgets were cut to make up to make up to that three hundred thousand , at the discretion of the Chief Constable , and to the credit of Mrs , and her other colleagues in the police committee , virtually no attempt was made to make political capital at that time , instead of which now , when all we 've seen is a request for the Chief Constable to defer proposed new spending , all of a sudden this is presented as a cut . |
| 5 | Clearly this is something we do not wish to be associated with ; we can only imagine they are trying to get some kind of spurious respectability by using our name . |
| 6 | ‘ They are trying to show this as a victory against the poachers . |
| 7 | For the future of course , we have now erm negotiated with Eurofighter a rather better arrangement , they 're setting up a joint team , they 're trying to do all the work in one place and they really are now making a lot of progress . |
| 8 | So what the parents are doing is they 're rewarding the duckling that runs the furthest and the fastest , to erm , they 're trying to reinforce that behaviour , because what they 're are trying to do , is get the ducklings away from the nest and start looking for , for food for themselves , presumably . |
| 9 | Well they 're trying to set this trial are n't they ? |
| 10 | And i I you know , it it just looks as though erm they 're trying to force more and more onto the voluntary erm centres and the voluntary organizations , to provide resources and to provide help . |
| 11 | ‘ They 're trying to cut each other to ribbons . |
| 12 | They 're trying to cut that down , I mean , we have now , what is called , station officer 's assistants and most police forces have them where they 're |
| 13 | how they do when th they 're trying to scare some of them off . |
| 14 | and they 're trying to get some record of , of what |
| 15 | They were trying to find any clues that might help in the investigation . |
| 16 | Obviously they were trying to build some publicity coup for the annual meeting . ’ |
| 17 | Oh yeah the gourmet chef was excellent , yeah , the way they were trying to integrate these two recipes into one show |
| 18 | A a at the time , they were trying to get this place looked at and surveyed , and everything to get it , you know to see what they could do about it , get it closed down , but er they had n't got that far with that then . |
| 19 | The Revenue would have some difficulty if they were to try to apply this head to tax upon the settlor or the spouse of the settlor income validly accumulating in an overseas discretionary trust . |