Example sentences of "[noun] she [verb] [been] try " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ace asked in a tone that betrayed the worry she 'd been trying to hide . |
| 2 | By then she could just about face up to the knowledge she had been trying to resist since February 1944 ; that every last member of her family had died in the concentration camps . |
| 3 | But thinking about Guido and the race were two things she 'd been trying very hard not to do . |
| 4 | He was probably quite old , then , Lindsey thought , busily fitting pieces into the mental jigsaw she had been trying to build up of her new boss . |
| 5 | The only thing she 'd been trying to do was calm Guido down and defuse the situation . |
| 6 | She rings the same number she has been trying all day . |
| 7 | Though , since her denial was hardly any excuse for the way she had been trying to bolt to her room , she felt honour-bound to give him just as straightforward an explanation . |
| 8 | One of the pink slips was a Returning-Your-Call message from a recently-elected female politician she had been trying to contact for days . |