Example sentences of "[was/were] trying [verb] me [adv] " in BNC.

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1 As soon as I came on the pitch the Rovers defenders were trying to push me inside .
2 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 .
3 ‘ Because someone was trying to set me up .
4 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 .
5 He was trying to put me off the scent , perhaps , trying to explain , trying to seem reasonable .
6 You was trying to butter me up were n't you ?
7 When I eventually realized that he was trying to chat me up , I decided to end the conversation and get off the train .
8 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 .
9 She was trying to frighten me off , of course .
10 Only now have I come to understand what it was my sixth sense was trying to tell me then ; in any case it would have been too late , Aunt Nessy was waiting , and bending down , I put my arms round her , and kissed her .
11 It may seem stupid , but it was n't until years later , when we were in Morocco , that I understood what he was trying to tell me then .
12 They will say ‘ I did n't know he was hoarding the tablets ’ or ‘ If only I had listened to what he was saying , maybe he was trying to tell me how he felt , and I was always too busy to listen . ’
13 Pointy-Beard was somewhere underneath me and was trying to roll me out from under Armstrong .
14 ‘ He was trying to keep me out of it . ’
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