Example sentences of "try [to-vb] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was also dubious about the interview ; he tried to persuade me to settle for interviewing Ortega 's brother , Humberto . |
| 2 | Then they tried to persuade me to part with the silver and everything else that had belonged to my husband . |
| 3 | The record company tried to force me to do more songy-type albums and it was n't really me , trying to be very commercial . |
| 4 | Then he tried to force me to take the damn' thing , and I had to call attention to my delicate condition . |
| 5 | ‘ They tried to force me to sign that document … ’ |
| 6 | Uncle tried to teach me to ride it but I did n't really become proficient because I was scared of falling off , and the area around Low Birk Hatt was n't much good for cycling . |
| 7 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 8 | My first meeting with was e a I doubt whether he actually remembers er but it was actually on an Inter City , I do n't know whether he does remember , on an Inter City back from London erm three or four years ago when h he also tried to get me to join the Labour Party if I remember rightly . |
| 9 | The other week she tried to get me to buy some different plants , but I did n't do it . |
| 10 | Yeah she said Aunt Jean tried to get me to work , but no ! |
| 11 | My colleagues seemed genuinely worried by my decision and many of them tried to convince me to change my mind . |
| 12 | Have you come all this way , after all this time , to try to get me to live on that boat ? " |
| 13 | Fergie has been saying that he was so concerned about my life-style away from football he called in Sir Matt Busby , the club doctor and even a parish priest to try to get me sorted out . |
| 14 | You tried to stop me seeing my family , ’ she said with a frown . |
| 15 | You tried to prevent me publishing what I 'd found out . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Yet when I first came , you tried to make me think your position here was untenable . |
| 18 | I had a teacher for all of three months tried to make me write with my right hand . |
| 19 | ‘ I tried to get a £1,000 overdraft from my bank , but they tried to make me take out a lot of loans . |
| 20 | But those who argued with me did not share this opinion , and tried to make me conform to their pattern . |
| 21 | As he gripped me and tried to make me touch him , I remember screaming inside , ‘ Why do n't you stop ? |
| 22 | My father was a sergeant in the Army and both parents did their best to try to make me go to school . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I 'd called it that all my life so why should they try to force me to change the way I speak my own language ? |
| 25 | In fact , rather tactlessly , he would ask my advice , try to get me to help him understand her point of view . |
| 26 | He 's already tried to have me arrested once — that 's how we met , believe it or not . ’ |
| 27 | She tries to get me to do things around the house , like changing light bulbs and things like that . |
| 28 | She says I 'm trying to increase me bust , he says put it down he says all you need is a couple of pieces of toilet tissue and rub it between the gap |
| 29 | I fear that if we are tempted to act as Opposition Members are trying to tempt me to do now , we might jeopardise the Bill 's progress . |
| 30 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |