Example sentences of "try [verb] me [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big boys tried to make me feel at home by taking me to the greasy spoon for a pie but what did I care for food as the table rang with drug quips and acerbic one-liners about Danielle Dax from Gavin Martin , James Brown and Danny Kelly . |
| 2 | Yet when I first came , you tried to make me think your position here was untenable . |
| 3 | I had a teacher for all of three months tried to make me write with my right hand . |
| 4 | ‘ I tried to get a £1,000 overdraft from my bank , but they tried to make me take out a lot of loans . |
| 5 | But those who argued with me did not share this opinion , and tried to make me conform to their pattern . |
| 6 | As he gripped me and tried to make me touch him , I remember screaming inside , ‘ Why do n't you stop ? |
| 7 | My father was a sergeant in the Army and both parents did their best to try to make me go to school . |
| 8 | At this moment two people grabbed me to try to make me get up but I could not get up , so they kicked me and stamped all over me from head to toe . |
| 9 | You were trying to help me put the names in place , without finishing it off . |
| 10 | Now you 're trying to make me pay . |
| 11 | OK , maybe it seems harsh , but I do n't think I 'm the only one who gets slightly bugged by dropouts trying to make me feel like I 'm insensitive and uncaring if I do n't pay for their drink . |
| 12 | OK , maybe it seems harsh , but I do n't think I 'm the only one who gets slightly bugged by dropouts trying to make me feel like I 'm insensitive and uncaring if I do n't pay for their drink . |
| 13 | It fulfilled none of my expectations and seemed to be merely trying to make me laugh at the fact that it had left me standing there grasping at nothing . |
| 14 | And I was holding myself back , tha tha , Paul was looking and trying to make me laugh ! |
| 15 | She was , however , immensely enthusiastic and encouraging , trying to make me think of the enterprise as a holiday as well as a mission with a sad and serious purpose . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're trying to make me go , are n't you ? ’ |
| 17 | He knew that I had some experience , but I think he was trying to make me relax and , perhaps , find out just how much I did or did n't know . |
| 18 | I remember dad running after me and having a long conversation trying to make me understand . ’ |
| 19 | That was your own fault for trying to make me get back into the car . |