Example sentences of "trying to tell [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The way you weave in your own background , your own — um — illness , and that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about . |
| 2 | ‘ The way you weave in your own background , your own illness , and that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … you are facing up to yourself in a very moving and powerful way … ’ |
| 3 | ‘ That trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … ’ : here , almost fully out in the open now , brazenly direct , we come to the gangrenous core of the rotten , shit-smeared campaign directed at me . |
| 4 | ‘ That trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … ’ |
| 5 | As though the voice was directly in my ear again I surfaced out of the momentary haze to hear my agent saying ‘ that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ The way you weave in your own background , your own illness , and that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … ’ |
| 7 | Days later I realised he was trying to tell me about the Brighton bombing ; it had occurred the same morning . |
| 8 | I met a scum fan on the bus home from town late on Saturday night who was trying to tell me in a very loud voice that Strachan was now ‘ past it ’ and ‘ knackered ’ . |
| 9 | What I 'm trying to tell you about is this . |
| 10 | That 's what I was trying to tell you about |
| 11 | So now I 'm trying to tell it to this pad he bought me this morning . |