Example sentences of "had been try " in BNC.
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| 1 | For several years BR had been trying to persuade the government to authorise the East Coast main line electrification ; after considerable discussion this was eventually agreed in July 1984 . |
| 2 | ‘ For years we had been trying to lower and streamline the bonnets of front-engined cars and the mid-engined configuration allowed us to obtain an extremely low nose , deeply recessed between sculpted front wings that sloped down to the headlights , which were contained in a plexiglass fairing to continue the line . |
| 3 | But BitC was an outfit with drive , enthusiasm , and a determination to make the sort of changes in society that Charles had been trying to make for years . |
| 4 | Mid you know , ’ he asked Phil , who had been trying to solicit his help all morning in the writing of a very important letter , ‘ That cancer can start as a little discoloration — even a tiny wart or mole ? |
| 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 | She was staring at him , with her great golden eyes , and her expression was so sad and apprehensive that the sight of it shocked him into asking the question he had been trying to ignore . |
| 7 | He had been trying to get something for Dorothy 's headaches . |
| 8 | Bella had been trying to push the walking-frame along and carry the tea at the same time . |
| 9 | She could smell the wood-smoke : someone had been trying to light a fire . |
| 10 | On the debit side we have dropped one day on the calving interval to 376 days , although not a disaster we had been trying to improve that but our heifers are calving at 28 months instead of two years three months . |
| 11 | We began by talking about food , but food quickly became boring and was replaced by feelings , the things I had been trying to stuff down with food . |
| 12 | It also ends a long wrangle between Skandia and its two largest shareholders , Hafnia and Uni Storebrand of Norway which had been trying to use their combined 43 p.c. stakes to force a three-way merger . |
| 13 | Mr Waite , formerly the Archbishop of Canterbury 's envoy , had been trying to secure the release of Western hostages when he was himself captured because he was suspected of spying for the Americans . |
| 14 | The manager had been trying to set himself up in the Business when he knew full well that Clive had the franchise . |
| 15 | Zborowski had been trying to find a way of flattering the old man ever since the party arrived in Nice . |
| 16 | The newspapers had been trying him ever since his arrest . |
| 17 | ‘ In terms of ideas , I had been trying to produce pictures at that time which had a very flat , two-dimensional feel to them , being torn between what I think are two different ends of photography , but which both have that quality . |
| 18 | Pepita had been trying to remember the events that led up to being bitten by the black widow spider . |
| 19 | The whole thing went undiscussed throughout 1982 , though people had been trying to have it discussed since they came back from their holidays in 1981 . ’ |
| 20 | For the past twenty years he had been trying to show the ‘ educated classes ’ the merits of Gothic and now found them acknowledged ‘ by the highest authorities in the land ’ . |
| 21 | Scott later said that Ellice was a ‘ worthy vain old busy-body … who had been trying to make himself look clever in the tea room by finding mare's-nests in the form of non-existent errors in the arrangement of my plans ’ . |
| 22 | He had drunk three glasses of home-made wine and had been trying to watch a film on television , but was unable to get interested in it . |
| 23 | The ancient Egyptians had been trying for centuries to prevent the export of their sacred felines . |
| 24 | ‘ Was he taking it to the person it belongs to ? ’ he asked at last , and it was as though all the time he had been trying to frame the question in a special way . |
| 25 | They could tell from his footprints in the snow that he had been trying to find a fold , which is what we call a stone shelter built for gathering sheep . |
| 26 | By then she could just about face up to the knowledge she had been trying to resist since February 1944 ; that every last member of her family had died in the concentration camps . |
| 27 | Booking into the hotel for another night , Kelly was told that someone had been trying to call her . |
| 28 | Despite the fact that they had been trying to kill each other , against the creature they were united . |
| 29 | Was that what Carol had been trying to tell him ? |
| 30 | 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 . |