Example sentences of "was try [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Because someone was trying to set me up . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't think he would do it to draw attention , but I believe quite genuinely that he was trying to amuse me . ’ |
| 3 | I was certain he did n't know I was following him , but he led me a pretty dance almost as if he was trying to lose me . |
| 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 | For about half a minute he did not reply and I thought that he either did not understand English or was trying to humiliate me . |
| 7 | You was trying to butter me up were n't you ? |
| 8 | He made me slightly tiddly on champagne so perhaps he was trying to seduce me . |
| 9 | He could n't actually tell me what was going on because that would put him in shtuck but he was trying to tip me the wink . |
| 10 | When I eventually realized that he was trying to chat me up , I decided to end the conversation and get off the train . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She was trying to frighten me off , of course . |
| 13 | There was cramp in my neck and arms and I was so tired that it seemed almost as if a malevolent magnetism was trying to drag me to the ground . |
| 14 | I knew he was trying to rile me , but I was determined to keep calm . |
| 15 | If he did , it was n't surprising he was trying to get me Confirmed in Faith . |
| 16 | really odd dream once yeah I dreamt , I dreamt this tube of , tube of toothpaste was trying to get me and every time it hit me I lost |
| 17 | And so he 's the one who started doing this — I do n't know if you remember Rolling Stone during that period he started getting slight , not really new wave , but we used some of the constructivist thing of breaking pages somewhat and pushing things on angles or erm My favourite was his Bob Dylan spread which actually I did , but it was based on what he was trying to get me to do , where everything read left to right and everything was , you know , point sizes lined up and everything was on a column grid , but it was , when you looked at it you had to , you know , like focus on it . |
| 18 | Uncle Geordie used to laugh and tell me not to be a fearedy-gowk when I said Skipper was trying to bite me . |
| 19 | The tokens were not of bondage , no one was trying to trap me , to possess me , to take me over . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ The way you weave in your own background , your own — um — illness , and that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 … ’ |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ That trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … ’ |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ The way you weave in your own background , your own illness , and that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … ’ |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | Days later I realised he was trying to tell me about the Brighton bombing ; it had occurred the same morning . |
| 29 | His face was agonized and he was trying to tell me something . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm sure it was trying to tell me something , ’ whispered Maud to Enid . |