Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] been trying " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been trying to get into training since I was fourteen . |
| 2 | Then I found out that Jim was making all the original pedals as well , so I decided to get rid of all the stuff I 'd been trying to make all these sounds with and just use the original things . |
| 3 | I 'd been trying to go to sleep . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | I did that once , quite bad it was , my father was furious , but my mother said I 'd been trying and he was n't to do anything . |
| 6 | I knew I 'd overdone the garlic in the Rogan Josh because I 'd been trying to impress Zaria . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd been trying to see as little as possible of him towards the end of term . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | No , not just one day , as I said , I 'd been trying for a few |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | I had been trying for a year to obtain some black Amazon wood for my Discus tank , but my local dealers did not stock it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I feel badly let down by Penguin because this was more or less what I had been trying to persuade them all along would happen . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I had been trying to pick up a barman in a pub in Hammersmith . |
| 17 | I had been trying to get a membership list for the Cicero Club , but the only other name I could come up with was George Macready , a scarfaced iceman who had a profitable share of the City 's gambling and was best known for his sword-extruding walking stick . |
| 18 | Ever since the happy visit of the year before , I had been trying to persuade him to pay a second and , if possible , longer visit . |
| 19 | I had been trying to negotiate the Friday lunch-time run , which was the most lucrative , office-party wise , as ER was always on the lookout for reliable drivers who could not only deliver their people but hang around and pick them up . |
| 20 | She told me when we were staying there that she 'd been trying to conceive ever since her wedding . ’ |
| 21 | She 'd been trying to prove that I was on drugs since I was fourteen . |
| 22 | Ace asked in a tone that betrayed the worry she 'd been trying to hide . |
| 23 | She 'd been trying to get rid of it and then suddenly it worked and she lost the baby . |
| 24 | The only thing she 'd been trying to do was calm Guido down and defuse the situation . |
| 25 | Though why she 'd been trying to do that , heaven only knew . |
| 26 | But thinking about Guido and the race were two things she 'd been trying very hard not to do . |
| 27 | but erm she 'd been trying to get hold of George I think for about two hours . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | And then Clelia sighed heavily , and looked sadly at Clara 's Japanese wooden egg puzzle , which she had been trying all this while to do , and said , " How very dull for you , to hear all about my affairs , but I do so like to tell the story of my life , it makes me feel as though things hive re ally happened to me , whereas otherwise they seem not to happen . " |
| 30 | She had been trying the apartment since seven o'clock . |