Example sentences of "[verb] be trying [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're opening the gates of the Manor Ground for the first time this season tomorrow … new signing Anton Rogan has been trying on his shirt today … |
| 2 | Karen Gorbutt , 30 , from South London , has been trying for years to get her partner , Matthew Allen , 30 , to be considerate around the house . |
| 3 | The US has been trying for a decade to clinch the deal , not least because it would give its nuclear forces control of what is seen as the strategically vital Pacific zone and a new set of options if its Philippine naval and air bases are threatened . |
| 4 | The crowds at Constitution Dock cheered the owner who has been trying for 20 years to score a major success in this race . |
| 5 | Mr Deukmejian , who was elected governor in 1982 , has been trying for a mighty long time to get the death penalty enforced in California . |
| 6 | Mr Kemp has been trying for several years to prod the White House into launching a serious anti-poverty programme . |
| 7 | SIR — The fact that Steve Redfern has been trying for six years to resume playing rugby union after playing rugby league ( Daily Telegraph , April 2 ) shows that union is a more enjoyable game . |
| 8 | Brian Clough has been trying for several weeks to recapture the man he sees as a key player in his fight to lift Forest off the bottom of the Premier League . |
| 9 | This , then is the state of affairs which Rigoberta Menchu has been trying for the past 11 years to bring to the world 's attention — an almost impossible task , given the fact that for most of that time the international press found Nicaragua and El Salvador much more diverting . |
| 10 | He has been trying for three years and he said today : ‘ Maybe it is because , God knows , I 've had some leg problems and I just can not climb those steps that easily , ’ he joked . |
| 11 | Andrew 's family has been trying for three years to get treatment for him . |
| 12 | A READER writes that she has been trying for weeks to find the outcome of the Prime Minister 's ‘ Taking Stock ’ exercise . |
| 13 | Authorities in Serbia again blocked a UN relief convoy which has been trying for days to reach the besieged Muslim enclave of Srebrenica . |
| 14 | Le-eyo was distinguished by an error which mankind has been trying to right ever since . |
| 15 | Inevitably we have n't held er er they have n't been able to hold up that new members this year and er the main job has been trying to er keep quite a number of the members who were recruited er to the gen following er the general election . |
| 16 | Mr Roland ’ Tiny ’ Rowland , head of Lonrho , has been trying since 1977 to acquire House of Fraser , owner of Harrods in Knightsbridge , London , and of various other department stores throughout the land . |
| 17 | Astrophil has been trying in the sonnet to proceed by imitation and been singularly unsuccessful in doing so . |
| 18 | Cos that 's why I did n't get any when I got my last prescription because I 'd been trying to just sort of even take one |
| 19 | And he 'd known it , all the time he 'd been trying to bed her . |
| 20 | But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed . |
| 21 | No , not just one day , as I said , I 'd been trying for a few |
| 22 | And he had to go and train somewhere down south , but he 's got a he , apparently he 'd been trying for a year and he 's got to Accrington . |
| 23 | Whitaker and Milton would have been trying for a unique hat-trick in this , the most important of all indoor championships , after winning in Dortmund in 1990 and Gothenburg last year . |
| 24 | The point 's that I think is trying to be made is that there are a lot of people here tonight who do wish to express an opinion and that opinion is not necessarily formulated in question form . |
| 25 | For months they had been trying with divets and tackle to hoist the appropriate two-ton stone upright and into its hole . |
| 26 | Er , my experience is slightly different when erm when I had been trying to sort of recover , I did n't , I did n't feel as if I 've get any help from professionals that I approached . |
| 27 | Retired businessman had been trying to but the 1936 Armstrong Siddeley for years , but was told the car was not for sale . |
| 28 | The ancient Egyptians had been trying for centuries to prevent the export of their sacred felines . |
| 29 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 30 | Sylvia had been trying for years to overcome her claustrophobia , but with little or no success . |