Example sentences of "been trying [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the main themes of lesbian feminism of the last years has been trying to create a forum in which women can talk about sex , feel happy about sex , and consume sexually explicit material without guilt . ’ |
| 2 | He had drunk three glasses of home-made wine and had been trying to watch a film on television , but was unable to get interested in it . |
| 3 | They have been trying to design a new force structure that would both live within the expected budget cuts and be capable of responding effectively to all imaginable crises . |
| 4 | IBM has been trying to negotiate a deal with the Open Software Foundation to buy outright re-distribution rights to an OSF/1 single server running under Mach 3.0 on PS/2s . |
| 5 | He 'd just been trying to squeeze a split-shot on to his line and it had popped out of his fingers . |
| 6 | She could smell the wood-smoke : someone had been trying to light a fire . |
| 7 | OVER THE past few years Britain and her European allies have been trying to adapt a system designed to catch Warsaw Pact spies to the task of hunting international terrorists . |
| 8 | David said : ‘ We have been trying to promote a professional image and get away from everyone 's idea of school dinners or canteen catering . |
| 9 | The Klan has been trying to recruit a new type of kid : young , middle-class and white . |
| 10 | Zborowski had been trying to find a way of flattering the old man ever since the party arrived in Nice . |
| 11 | They could tell from his footprints in the snow that he had been trying to find a fold , which is what we call a stone shelter built for gathering sheep . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been trying to find a tactful way to drop him for ages . ’ |
| 13 | Branco Babic has been trying to find a manufacturer who 's interested in the possibilities of strawcrete for the past two years . |
| 14 | And it 's particularly , I think , acute in the parish of Saint Mary 's and Saint John 's because the vicarage has been empty for two years and erm they built a new house , it was more it was cheaper to build a new house than to do the old one up , but there it 's been sat , empty for two years , and erm they 've been trying to find a buyer . |
| 15 | So if I may , I would like to negotiate to one or the other if if you will agree er to that , to try and get us a dance group , we 've been trying to get a dance group for years |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Mrs Draper says they 've been trying to get a larger home for years . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 19 | talking to one of these receptionists today and she says erm she 's been trying to get a bit of erm , she 's split up with her husband , trying to get , a bit of extra money together , you know , to be , she 's got her own house like , buying her own house and all this and that she 's fell into a bloody modelling job and saying get yourself a passport and er on about sending her off to either the South of France or Kenya |
| 20 | She had been trying to marshal a persuasive line of argument in her mind . |
| 21 | They had been trying to maintain a steady pace , between hopping and running , and it had come hard . |
| 22 | In the UK , SAS has been trying to build a relationship with ICL plc for the last three or four years — with little success . |
| 23 | Libby and George had been trying to build a bridge with logs pulled from the wood and tied with twine from the farm to stop them rolling apart . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Aware of this complexity , I have recently been trying to develop a non-traditional approach to describing publicly available business information resources that might help non-specialists appreciate how they come to be . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She has been trying to stake a claim which I vow to you on my honour she has never had a right to . |
| 29 | He felt certain that Paul Lexington had been trying to pull a fast one on his coproducer . |
| 30 | It depends on his attitude , if he 'd been trying to pull a fast one on you and er |