Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] have [been] trying " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOR SEVERAL years , my husband has been trying to join the Labour Party . |
| 2 | My daughter 's been trying to get on for ages . |
| 3 | Le-eyo was distinguished by an error which mankind has been trying to right ever since . |
| 4 | The lessons which Donaldson has been trying to teach us are reflected throughout the following chapters . |
| 5 | At the weekend when she had taken Balbinder to stay with his grandparents in Coventry , her brother had been trying to teach Balbinder to say ‘ can I ’ , or ‘ May I ’ instead of ‘ I want to ’ . |
| 6 | That since we have realised the position of women in the printing trade is seriously threatened , we women have been trying to organise ourselves with a view to securing justice for ourselves and for the women who may in future desire to practise the business of compositors or monotypists . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , biophysicist Professor H. Ti Trien and his team have been trying to mimic photosynthesis , in particular the charge separation step . |
| 8 | Was that what Carol had been trying to tell him ? |
| 9 | Which is a lot is n't it really , once we come down to it , you know we 've had a two solid hours of what God has been trying to teach us today . |
| 10 | ‘ Your father 's been trying to keep it from you . |
| 11 | I opened my eyes at fucking five to six and I could see him at the window Ken ran then across the road and he says Dawn your brother 's been trying to get in for ages . |