Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [pers pn] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd be a liar if I tried to pretend I knew the answer to that one . |
| 2 | And er I mean I tried to indicate you know to him that he could claim against the company and get his premiums back , but unfortunately , there was no letter and no i indication , and the person was no longer with the company . |
| 3 | She had no idea what he meant , and if she tried to answer she knew she 'd only cry . |
| 4 | we 'd be open to the Russians and all this sort of thing , it was really trying to frighten ya , what this soap box image he tries to give you know , a one man show , it 's bloody path it 's his voice |
| 5 | With his junior staff loyally taking the blame and trying to pretend he knew nothing about it ( despite his signature on the 17 January presidential order ) , Reagan began to believe he had known nothing about it and it is possible that he did not know what he was signing . |
| 6 | Why does she have to tell me lies like , I mean what 's she trying to hide you know ? |
| 7 | so it 's not exactly like you 're trying to put you know you 're trying to put a right hand onto a left hand , but it , it 's a certain element of that , erm having said that what do you think ? |
| 8 | ‘ Hope that you 'll finally understand what I 've been trying to let you know over the past few days without frightening you away by putting it into words . |
| 9 | I mean I suppose there is in all social work in a sense , that if you go in to look at a family and , and you 're trying to assess you know whether the children should be taken into care , well you 're exercising a a sort of statutory erm er sort of responsibility , and as far as the clients are concerned , er if you , like that can sort of get in the way of er er a more human sort of relationship if you see what I mean , because |
| 10 | If you imagine the blood 's going round and you 're trying to get you know |
| 11 | It 's not , that like horribly , but mucking about , trying to say you know |