Example sentences of "who had been trying " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |