Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Klan has been trying to recruit a new type of kid : young , middle-class and white . |
| 2 | Since then the ILN has been seeking to find a new readership . |
| 3 | The trust has been fundraising to build a modern workshop alongside the cruck-framed barn . |
| 4 | It depends on his attitude , if he 'd been trying to pull a fast one on you and er |
| 5 | After it was removed to make more space , it was given to the Earl of Harcourt who 'd been planning to build a gothic folly in the grounds of his Nuneham Courtney estate . |
| 6 | Three people with incendiary devices were found in a car … they said they had been intending to commit a serious crime and they just walk out of court . |
| 7 | Mr Clarke unknowingly stole the thunder of Douglas Hurd , the Home Secretary , who had been intending to make a veiled public appeal for more cash for the police services in the law and order debate . |
| 8 | She had been trying to marshal a persuasive line of argument in her mind . |
| 9 | They had been trying to maintain a steady pace , between hopping and running , and it had come hard . |
| 10 | He felt certain that Paul Lexington had been trying to pull a fast one on his coproducer . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been trying to find a tactful way to drop him for ages . ’ |
| 12 | I 've been dying to make a good ginger pudding for years ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | David said : ‘ We have been trying to promote a professional image and get away from everyone 's idea of school dinners or canteen catering . |
| 15 | Dock Workers Union leaders have been meeting to consider a national dock strike over Government plans to scrap the jobs for life scheme . |
| 16 | Since a year last August scientists working on UA1 and UA2 have been putting the finishing touches to their apparatus , and at the same time machine physicists at CERN have been working to get a large enough number of collisions in the SPS . |
| 17 | People have been flocking to see a controversial production of Swan Lake . |