Example sentences of "[conj] have [been] trying [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Collecting up her leaflets , she made her way up to bed , and gave in to the little grin that had been trying to break out a few minutes before . |
| 2 | Saddam Hussein disagrees with what the Kurds would like and has been trying to eradicate them from Iraq by killing them with his powerful army . |
| 3 | His death comes amid a widening split in the party between his loyalists and supporters of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif , who leads a coalition government led by the PML and has been trying to take over the party leadership . |
| 4 | China is North Korea 's closest ally and has been trying to defuse recent tensions . |
| 5 | 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 . |