Example sentences of "she had [be] trying " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . " |
| 3 | She had been trying the apartment since seven o'clock . |
| 4 | One of the pink slips was a Returning-Your-Call message from a recently-elected female politician she had been trying to contact for days . |
| 5 | She had been trying to marshal a persuasive line of argument in her mind . |
| 6 | Right leg bent double , knee red from impact , a scatter of dark soil across her calf , as if she had been trying to run even as she fell . |
| 7 | Surely he was n't implying that she had been trying out her feminine wiles on Sam ? |
| 8 | It was that , not so much her face , she had been trying to conceal . |
| 9 | He was probably quite old , then , Lindsey thought , busily fitting pieces into the mental jigsaw she had been trying to build up of her new boss . |
| 10 | Lindsey sank back into her seat , trying to digest the thought that that was precisely what she had been trying to do from the minute she had met him , and it had n't got her very far . |
| 11 | Rachel 's heart skipped a beat at her first sight of him and if she had been trying to delude herself that David had asked her along purely for the sake of her new friends she was forced to dismiss it as his gaze met hers . |
| 12 | Only hours before she had been trying to pull herself together and thinking she might be winning ; now the future was an aching black void . |
| 13 | Though , since her denial was hardly any excuse for the way she had been trying to bolt to her room , she felt honour-bound to give him just as straightforward an explanation . |