Example sentences of "i have been trying [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been trying to go to sleep . |
| 2 | I 'd been trying to get into training since I was fourteen . |
| 3 | I had been trying to produce in Jimbo the necessary mental awareness that the real cure — the reopening of the nerve pathways — lay in the end with him . |
| 4 | What I 've been trying to do on the meantime is to improve the whole budgeting system . |
| 5 | So you see what I 've been , what I 've been trying to do in this lecture is to explain the , the modern biological basis which I think makes Freud 's findings intelligent . |
| 6 | I 've been trying to liaise with the Save our Forests which is and forestry privatization and technically I 'm on the committee . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been trying to go for the last half-hour , ’ he whispered , ‘ but you wo n't let go of my neck ! ’ |
| 8 | I 've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour , and I ca n't . |
| 9 | To you it 's just home , but to me it 's the place I 've been trying to get to . |
| 10 | ‘ Even so , I 've been trying to get to this level for seven or eight years , even though I knew that people liked what I did . |
| 11 | Because I 've been trying to swop between that one and that one . |
| 12 | She said , ‘ I 've been trying to think about Wayne , but instead I 've been thinking about myself . |
| 13 | I , I , do not understand Chairman that reading this motion , I 've been trying to think about it , how on earth this is going to be monitored . |
| 14 | Sorry , Benny ; I 've been trying to communicate with — with whatever it is that 's up there . |
| 15 | A lot of folks drop their guard when they think they 're dealing with a man of simple mind — and if behind that kind of pose you hide the steely determination I 've been trying to drum into you , son , you 'll do just fine . " |
| 16 | I 've been trying to write about him for weeks . ’ |