Example sentences of "he have been trying [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kate gave him a suspicious look , but he seemed to have recovered from the rage she 'd been fairly sure he 'd been trying to keep under control before she left the room . |
| 2 | so as he 'd been trying to get through it was always engaged . |
| 3 | He had been trying to talk to Sir Alexander Cadogan , the Cabinet 's linkman with the secret services , but had been told that he was busy . |
| 4 | They looked at each other , Jean-Paul focusing his eyes with difficulty , and Edouard saw the coarsening in his brother which he had been trying to ignore for days . |
| 5 | He said that there had been a postal strike and that he had been trying to write to me and as the mail was getting through , I should get the letters . |
| 6 | Director Alvin Rakoff had problems with Crawford when it came to a crucial , very dramatic scene that he shared with Donald Pleasence , who was playing the police officer who could see a way to nailing the crook whom he had been trying to get for twenty years through his son . |
| 7 | Robert recognized faces he had been trying to avoid for weeks . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's been trying to speak to you to warn you . |