Example sentences of "i have been trying " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then I have been trying to gain recognition from Technics . |
| 2 | Q I have been trying with little success to get hold of a list of camping barn and bunkhouse type accommodations . |
| 3 | SIR — Since Peterborough reported that the Maastricht Treaty was being sold by HMSO ( March 19 ) I have been trying to obtain a copy without success . |
| 4 | FOR months now I have been trying to contain excitement at the thought of the compact disc . |
| 5 | ‘ I have been trying to elicit what is happening in Scotland . |
| 6 | I have been trying to draw attention away from the great cities , which were quite uncharacteristic of the scene in our centuries , and to focus on the small or middling sort ; and here we meet the doctrine so brilliantly established in recent decades by Philip Jones : that the Italian cities were essentially market towns in origin , in which nobles and knights and farmers and peasants had a common interest ; very often the knights lived as much in the towns as in their country fortresses or castles . |
| 7 | I have been trying to hatch brine shrimps to feed fry , but the eggs just settle on the bottom of the tank , in spite of aeration . |
| 8 | I have been trying a new range of foods from OSI , an American company with a good reputation in the States , which manufactures a massive range of both freshwater and marine food products . |
| 9 | I have been trying to make it more commercial and wearable for evening looks , and the staff are now using the technique on clients especially for weddings . ’ |
| 10 | Recently I have been trying out Golfer cardigans . |
| 11 | I have been trying to learn how to make things happen ever since . |
| 12 | In his Chicago lectures , for example , he described how certain passages of Notes toward the Definition of Culture had been exposed as a " mass of contradictions " and , at the end , he also made a rueful disclaimer — " I am quite aware that I have been trying to persuade , although I may not be quite sure of what " . |
| 13 | You are a very intelligent girl and you have read a great deal — no , I mean it ; one thing you ca n't say is that I have been trying to flatter you — but you do n't know everything , you do n't know the French , the real French ( though the Fourniers are quite an example of one kind ) , you can have no idea of what life among us is like , the attitudes , the demands ; if you like , the values . |
| 14 | ‘ My friend Bernice and I have been trying to work out how to stabilize the moons , ’ he said . |
| 15 | When the young laird of Dunvegan , Norman Macleod , came down late for breakfast , Johnson ticked him off , saying laziness was worse than toothache : ‘ I have been trying to cure my laziness all my life , and could not do it . ’ |
| 16 | Q I have been trying to locate a manufacturer of a walking boot or walking shoe which is synthetic , ie not leather or suede for a vegetarian friend , but so far have had no luck . |
| 17 | I have been trying a pair of ATP trousers from Calange ( £40 ) , which are well cut , extremely comfortable and function well . |
| 18 | Then he said to Rain : ‘ You could say I have been trying to help Barbara Coleman , helping her to keep out of trouble . |
| 19 | His thin , pale face contorted as he said , " Well , I sha n't go into the seamy details … the more basic facets of life , but on a cleaner if more frustrating theme , I have been trying to seduce that lovely Dickson boy over the last week . |
| 20 | My excuse for this lengthy and amateur digression into history is that I have been trying to show how I think geology got into the hands of the theoreticians who were conditioned by the social and political history of their day more than by observations in the field . |
| 21 | Weather gets nastier here — my week in 21–28 October was warm and wet , so I lazed and read and ate — read a lot and ate a lot which , given the state of the bathroom scales , enriched both mind and body ( HA HA ) so I have been trying to eat and drink less . |
| 22 | As I 'm going senile + reliving my second childhood , I have been trying to keep Gav 's fabulous tex fixture list up to date . |
| 23 | And , although I was instantaneously and utterly in love with you — and quite determined that we should marry as soon as possible — I have been trying my damnedest to keep some kind of control over my emotions . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I have been trying to get a video of the game for the past four or five years , but I have never had any success . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I have been trying to get the traders out for eight years , but there have been so many obstructions . ’ |
| 26 | The woman , who is married and lives in Formby , Sefton , said : ‘ I have been trying for a child for 19 years . |
| 27 | ‘ I have been trying to get him out of the pram to get him ready for nursery but not now . |