Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been trying to find " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been trying to find a tactful way to drop him for ages . ’ |
| 2 | I 've been trying to find loose stones again . |
| 3 | I 've been trying to find you for ages . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been trying to find you everywhere . ’ |
| 5 | If we are in full flow , and a word escapes us , resorting to silence is undesirable — a complete and utter silence is unacceptable , and if used would surely worry the listener : I 've been trying to find that — . |
| 6 | Voiced hesitation is a partial solution : I 've been trying to find that — erm . |
| 7 | It is unusual to have two erm 's in immediate succession — I 've been trying to find that — erm — erm — and to have three is very strange : I 've been trying to find that — erm — erm — erm — . |
| 8 | It is unusual to have two erm 's in immediate succession — I 've been trying to find that — erm — erm — and to have three is very strange : I 've been trying to find that — erm — erm — erm — . |
| 9 | I 've been trying to find Sally to do your mac . |
| 10 | Yeah , I 've been trying to find out what |
| 11 | It may just be the book you have been trying to find for years ! |
| 12 | In the meantime , I understand you have been trying to find out how the Carmel Woods inquiry went . |
| 13 | And it 's particularly , I think , acute in the parish of Saint Mary 's and Saint John 's because the vicarage has been empty for two years and erm they built a new house , it was more it was cheaper to build a new house than to do the old one up , but there it 's been sat , empty for two years , and erm they 've been trying to find a buyer . |
| 14 | They 've been trying to find alternative berths for incoming cargoes and negotiating the release of ships waiting to sail on the night time . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He had been trying to find somewhere to park in London 's West End , Keith Hylton told a Marlborough Street magistrate through an interpreter . |
| 17 | When Columbus reached America he had been trying to find India ; when Glass discovered the music of India he found his new world . |