Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] have [been] trying " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wondered what Spiderglass would do to Chesarynth when they found out that Jezrael had been trying to free her . |
| 2 | But BitC was an outfit with drive , enthusiasm , and a determination to make the sort of changes in society that Charles had been trying to make for years . |
| 3 | UK Transport Minister John MacGregor yesterday published a paper proposal to introduce road pricing to ease congestion in London : under his plan , every car would have to be fitted with an electronic identifier , and its movements within the capital would be monitored by 4,000 roadside beacons : drivers would either establish credit with the system operator or be sent a quarterly bill , the Evening Standard reports ; the paper says that MacGregor has been trying to think up a snappy name for the thing , but reckless of the manner in which the Community Charge degenerated into the much-excoriated Poll Tax , he has settled on Congestion Charge . |
| 4 | The key phrase is , of course , ‘ he let his thinking catch up with him ’ , with its subtle implication that Tethra has been trying to run away from the knowledge that he does not belong . |
| 5 | Staff at the police photographic department , Ministry of Defence laboratories and IBM have been trying to improve the original blurred images of the youths . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Covering her impatience , she told him that some keys similar to MacQuillan 's desk keys had been found and Ruby had been trying to divine from them the identity of their owner . |
| 8 | Floy got up , not furtively , but quite openly and naturally , so that if Balor should open his eyes it would not seem as if Floy had been trying to run away . |