Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] been trying " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crowds at Constitution Dock cheered the owner who has been trying for 20 years to score a major success in this race . |
| 2 | A Tory friend of mine who has been trying to write nice things about the Conservative campaign has been tearing his hair out in desperation , not just because they are doing so badly — but because they deserve to . |
| 3 | But at this second exhibition Flatpattern 's ex-wife , who has been trying to track him down for alimony , appears , denounces him and the syndicate and mayhem breaks out . |
| 4 | ‘ Please do n't think that you are the only one who has been trying to suppress your feelings , ’ she said at last , plumping for simplicity . |
| 5 | Pablo Benavides , the European Community official who has been trying to mediate between Slovakia and Hungary over the future of the Gabcikovo hydroelectric project [ see ED 67 , 68 ] , has said that his efforts to negotiate a compromise have " reached the limit of possibilities " . |
| 6 | I talked to the boy who 'd been trying to help this Frome — trying to get him to vomit it up , and so on . |
| 7 | Their bodies were discovered when friends who 'd been trying to contact one of the women became worried and called the police . |
| 8 | He was run over by thieves who 'd been trying to steel aluminimum worth less than two hundred pounds . |
| 9 | This includes women who 've been trying for a test tube baby , have a history of pelvic inflammatory disease or sexually transmitted diseases , have suffered previous ectopic pregnancy , or surgery on their tubes , and those who 've had infertility problems . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | Paramedics were at the scene in four minutes of the emergency call and took over from officers who had been trying to stem the flow of blood . |
| 13 | Here was a woman who had been trying to have a child ever since her marriage and yet she , Celia , had conceived not merely without any difficulty but on the one and only time she had not taken steps to prevent it . |
| 14 | The six included the party leader , Proinsias De Rossa , who had been trying to reform the party and whose proposals to replace " democratic centralism and Leninist revolutionary tactics " with democratic socialism had narrowly failed to be adopted at a party conference a week earlier . |
| 15 | As Zen approached his office , the inspector who had been trying to trace Ubaldo Valesio 's movements poked his head around the door of the next room . |
| 16 | Its sudden arrival on the scene must have been embarrassing for those who have been trying to deny that federalism was on the agenda . |
| 17 | The problems with the New Age Travellers also helped confirm the fears of nearby villagers who have been trying to get the festival stopped for the past year . |
| 18 | However , a few hundred men aged between 18 and 60 who have been trying to leave on grounds of illness were told they must obtain a certificate from an army doctor . |
| 19 | Cheltenham swimmer Kevin Morris who 's been trying to make history by swimming the channel backstroke has missed out again … he was three and half hours out from Dover when a throat infection sunk his dreams … |