Example sentences of "have been trying [to-vb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There then appeared a chink of light when we were advised by Mr F. Musgrave of Saintfield that he wished to sell the site of the former Ballynahinch Junction Station , a site which the Trust had been trying to secure for the past 20 years . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been trying to go for the last half-hour , ’ he whispered , ‘ but you wo n't let go of my neck ! ’ |
| 3 | I 've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour , and I ca n't . |
| 4 | Although they were perfectly competent people and good at their jobs , they were never going to become part of the new culture which we have been trying to design for the Storehouse group . |
| 5 | This has a shuffling joss-sticky booga-booga spook beat and a strange haircut ; this is the record that Pop Will Eat Itself have been trying to make for the past 24 months , the grinning idiot love-child of Mr Desmond Drugmusic and Mrs Winnie Indiewhine brought up in a radical lesbian commune in Vancouver , Canada and fed on a diet of black pudding and Ecstasy . |