Example sentences of "be trying to make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm yeah if er you have no objection , what it 's for is the , there 's this outfit called the British National Corpus and they 're trying to make a record of English Language as it 's used in the late twentieth century erm so it 's a sort of resource for further scholarship so it can assist in writing dictionaries and studying grammar and , and all sorts of things like that and erm they 're attempting to tape conversations from all over the place erm er I 've got a bit of bumph about it , it 's quite interesting erm and in some cases it 's sort of out of erm er it 's out of people 's homes , it 's out of broadcasts , it 's out of meetings , it 's out of all sorts of things erm at work and at home erm |
| 2 | They 're trying to make a dictionary up for everyday language , that everybody uses . |
| 3 | We 're trying to make a house . |
| 4 | I 'm trying to make a banana cake . ’ |
| 5 | For I worked at the council they were trying to make a road there then . |
| 6 | This is what we , we were aiming for we were trying to make a town for the people . |
| 7 | I sensed they were trying to make a statement with their carefree attitude : if we ca n't do anything else , we are going to enjoy this anniversary . |
| 8 | They are trying to find somewhere suitable or , alternatively , they are trying to make a documentary about the area , having heard that the inn is haunted . |
| 9 | Matthew ( 3.10 ) and Claire ( 3.6 ) are trying to make a tower the size of Claire . |
| 10 | It 's a bunch of people , Universities , Publishers , erm some funding from Central Government , some from er research councils of various kinds are trying to make a sort of record of current usage of the English language and I think Longmans are intr interested in it for example f from the point of view of dictionaries and stuff like that . |
| 11 | Can I just say colleagues before you , you second the motion , there is this hubbub again that 's growing , I mean it seems to go down and I do n't know perhaps it 's like the tide but can we try and keep it a bit lower , especially when colleagues are trying to make a speech from the rostrum . |
| 12 | Me thinks another pilgrim is trying to make a buck . |
| 13 | There are many kinds of difficulties confronting an organization which is trying to make a start on restructuring education , but without access to formal power . |
| 14 | And speaking of needless repeats , do you think this owner is trying to make a point ? |
| 15 | The Doctor was trying to make a map of their journey . |
| 16 | He had his own band now ; he was trying to make a go of it full-time , and it was difficult . |
| 17 | I looked at the faces of the other soldiers to see if he was trying to make a fool of me . |
| 18 | I was trying to make a list of what he owed and how we might get out of this state , which I do n't think he ever got out of . |
| 19 | It did n't seem to her that Timothy Gedge was trying to make a joke , yet it was amazing that he was saying all this just to pay them back for not being friendly or because he wanted a wedding-dress they would n't give him , or for any reason at all . |
| 20 | The Kremlin 's first reaction to western reports was an attempt to say the West was trying to make a mountain out of a molehill . |
| 21 | My first-ever story for a national magazine was about another of my seminal Ali experiences — a sparring session I 'd had with the Champ in 1975 , when , because of his influence , I was trying to make a living as a kickboxer . |