Example sentences of "[be] always trying " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're always trying to protect it . |
| 2 | In an interview contemporary with the novel , Brooke-Rose explains that ‘ Amalgamemnon is in fact about the violence which we all commit when we 're always trying to amalgamate people and put them in a category ’ ( 1984b ) , but the novel also turns this strategy back on itself and uses ‘ amalgamation ’ to shatter categories . |
| 3 | Because you 're always trying to get the better of me . |
| 4 | We also of course have got sophisticated , I hope , complaint systems now and those are another important way and we 're always trying to improve our quality control and quality assurance mechanisms . |
| 5 | Girls are always trying to make you feel sorry for them , but they ca n't fool me . |
| 6 | Line , like stance , is therefore a fluid thing ; it is a method of positioning and repositioning yourself so that you are always trying to reduce the opponent 's opportunities . |
| 7 | ‘ When you are always trying to make your best shots you sometimes miss . |
| 8 | ‘ Looking after your oil is paramount — the oil companies are always trying to educate their customers . |
| 9 | ‘ Also with Kerrang spelling all c's as k's and all s's as z's , ’ Dave continued , ‘ the editor has to sort out problems with the typesetters who are always trying to correct our copy . |
| 10 | Women , they argue , are always trying to make them stop doing things they most like doing ( getting messy , drinking , staying out late and so on ) just like their mothers used to . |
| 11 | ‘ People are always trying to put me down and I have always come back better . ’ |
| 12 | It is not un determined but over determined , and the ruling interests in the social formation take the lead in setting the predispositions which are always trying to constitute a received shape . |
| 13 | ‘ Because has n't history proved that the English are always trying to do the Irish down ? ’ |
| 14 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that , although the Opposition seem to delight in talking down the United Kingdom economy , the confidence of the foreigner investing in this country is great and we have the highest rate of inward investment in the EEC , despite the pessimism that the Opposition are always trying to spread ? |
| 15 | Back home they are always trying to pinch your job . ’ |
| 16 | Right now you may , erm , do n't know anything in particular , but I know that the European Community and the United , United States are always trying to out , erm , beat each other in terms of subsidies on food products , so put , put that in . |
| 17 | That may sound strange — what I mean is , I 'm always trying to imagine what they think of me ; I do n't seem able to look from inside of myself , outwards . |
| 18 | ‘ Other people try to lose weight whereas I 'm always trying to gain it , ’ said Kylie . |
| 19 | you just said Indian , and I 'm always trying to say what , what I believe is the correct thing to say these |
| 20 | I could n't imagine Ted contemplating the nature of Eva and Dad 's taut happiness or telling of how they were always trying to pull each other 's tracksuit bottoms down and playing games like seeing who could throw a lolly-stick in a bin the most times out of ten . |
| 21 | ‘ We were always trying to be creative and to shock ! ’ |
| 22 | and everybody was clamouring to know how much they were going to get and er we were always trying to head them off by saying that er , theirs was next on the list and er |
| 23 | When the apostles wrote letters to their friends and colleagues they were always trying to pass on words of encouragement and the people who received these letters regarded them as precious sources of information , that is why many of the letters of Paul or John or Peter have been carefully guarded and handed down to ourselves . |
| 24 | The individual is always trying to reconcile his inner and outer world and lessen the anxiety of the internal situation . |
| 25 | This created a conundrum for the label , resolved with the following decision : ‘ You can suffer from Number One-itis , ’ reckons Andy , ‘ which is always trying to get to Number One or go one better than you managed last time . |
| 26 | After all , elementary particle physics is always trying to split things up into smaller and smaller constituents with a view to treating them independently of each other . |
| 27 | ‘ The old drunk thinks he knows about horses , and is always trying to get to Sir John 's destrier . |
| 28 | The surface of a liquid is thus in a state of tension — it is always trying to contract . |
| 29 | Big Merv is always trying something new . |
| 30 | She 's always trying to make trouble for me , because she 's nothing but a jealous , vindictive old woman . |