Example sentences of "[pron] have [been] trying for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | and I 've been trying for ages but there just has n't been any cos |
2 | I 've been trying for days , though , I 'm coming over tomorrow . |
3 | Authorities in Serbia again blocked a UN relief convoy which has been trying for days to reach the besieged Muslim enclave of Srebrenica . |
4 | A READER writes that she has been trying for weeks to find the outcome of the Prime Minister 's ‘ Taking Stock ’ exercise . |
5 | There 's nothing new in that — she 's been trying for years . |
6 | We have been trying for years , centuries , to establish this and it is only because of help from outside that we have been able to do it now . |
7 | Murray said : ‘ We have been trying for months to sign the right sort of player to replace Joe Allon . |
8 | But if you can actually influence the French let us know because , or let the government know , because they , they 've been trying for years ever since Napoleon 's day , to try and do something . |
9 | MIT members were shown , in detail , the market which they had been trying for years to service . |