Example sentences of "was trying [verb] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Because someone was trying to set me up . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He was trying to put me off the scent , perhaps , trying to explain , trying to seem reasonable . |
| 4 | You was trying to butter me up were n't you ? |
| 5 | When I eventually realized that he was trying to chat me up , I decided to end the conversation and get off the train . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She was trying to frighten me off , of course . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It may seem stupid , but it was n't until years later , when we were in Morocco , that I understood what he was trying to tell me then . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Pointy-Beard was somewhere underneath me and was trying to roll me out from under Armstrong . |
| 12 | ‘ He was trying to keep me out of it . ’ |