Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] have been trying [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the kind of earthly and human illustrations that I 've been trying to use this morning are all bound to fall short . |
| 2 | With an instant return to sweet reasonableness , Andrée said , ‘ Admitted that I 've been trying to seduce you , does n't that only go to show how desperate I am to get my way ? |
| 3 | In his Chicago lectures , for example , he described how certain passages of Notes toward the Definition of Culture had been exposed as a " mass of contradictions " and , at the end , he also made a rueful disclaimer — " I am quite aware that I have been trying to persuade , although I may not be quite sure of what " . |
| 4 | You are a very intelligent girl and you have read a great deal — no , I mean it ; one thing you ca n't say is that I have been trying to flatter you — but you do n't know everything , you do n't know the French , the real French ( though the Fourniers are quite an example of one kind ) , you can have no idea of what life among us is like , the attitudes , the demands ; if you like , the values . |
| 5 | My excuse for this lengthy and amateur digression into history is that I have been trying to show how I think geology got into the hands of the theoreticians who were conditioned by the social and political history of their day more than by observations in the field . |
| 6 | There does n't seem to be much of it about , not even many DFs , so I 've been trying to stock up lately . |
| 7 | Weather gets nastier here — my week in 21–28 October was warm and wet , so I lazed and read and ate — read a lot and ate a lot which , given the state of the bathroom scales , enriched both mind and body ( HA HA ) so I have been trying to eat and drink less . |
| 8 | She told me when we were staying there that she 'd been trying to conceive ever since her wedding . ’ |
| 9 | The AS presumably indicates Andrew Stavanger , and the TMJ will be his secretary , or one of the typing staff And it reads sensibly enough — it is just the sort of letter that he might have been expected to write if he got back to his office late and were told that you had been trying to get in touch with him . |
| 10 | The danger 's coming closer all the time — whatever it is — and besides , the Threarah is n't going to like it if he finds out that you 've been trying to get at rabbits in the Owsla , Bigwig . |
| 11 | I do know that we 've been trying to get er recognition for about fifteen years with that company but can we pursue that issue ? |
| 12 | that my sin was laid on you , now what happens is that our relationship with God is restored , that , that chasm , that , that gulf that we 've been trying to get across with our good works with our church attendance with all these other things , suddenly we are , our land with a bridge across it , there 's no longer a barrier there , there 's no longer a great gulf there , Jesus Christ has bridged it , that broken relationship has restored and from this relationship the basis of that relationship we have the power to become as God made us . |
| 13 | well I think that , that the , the sending out of the press release immediately was , was quite correct , because obviously people had ride that , sorry people may have read that and something therefore had to be said , my personal view was that really this article is you had , if you like had undone everything that we had been trying to do , erm and put us in a bad light and it maybe my Scottish background , but I do n't like people calling in to question my motives and the companies motives , erm and I felt that it went straight to what we were really standing for , given what I explained about my thoughts in nineteen eighty seven , it was hitting straight to the core of the whole proposition and everything that stood for , erm and that is what was the great concern and because it was n't just like a , a mild slap in the face it was more like a knife in the ribs , it was therefore required a lot more thinking about as to the reaction that we would then have to come up with . |
| 14 | Despite the fact that they had been trying to kill each other , against the creature they were united . |
| 15 | In addition to normal responsibilities , which include making new investments , approaching new potential customers and keeping existing customers happy , Mr Queen says that they have been trying to educate the professional community to recognise when a company is going to need more working capital . |
| 16 | Assume that it has been trying to help you , in some misguided way . |
| 17 | He said that there had been a postal strike and that he had been trying to write to me and as the mail was getting through , I should get the letters . |
| 18 | They could tell from his footprints in the snow that he had been trying to find a fold , which is what we call a stone shelter built for gathering sheep . |
| 19 | ‘ My friend Bernice and I have been trying to work out how to stabilize the moons , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Cos I 've been trying to organise it . |
| 21 | Rachel 's heart skipped a beat at her first sight of him and if she had been trying to delude herself that David had asked her along purely for the sake of her new friends she was forced to dismiss it as his gaze met hers . |
| 22 | Right leg bent double , knee red from impact , a scatter of dark soil across her calf , as if she had been trying to run even as she fell . |
| 23 | Now the enemy 's all deflated and dead , I feel like all my friends and all the artists were like little pygmies and we 've been trying to kill this elephant all these years with little arrows , and finally tonight … |
| 24 | Those who understood this might leave a swatch of fabric lying around so that Laura could pick it up and believe she had discovered it herself , even if they had been trying to persuade her to use it for months . |
| 25 | It is for this reason that most doctors will not generally accept that couples have a fertility problem until they have been trying to conceive for at the very least a year . |
| 26 | It depends on his attitude , if he 'd been trying to pull a fast one on you and er |
| 27 | Well it 's not a yes yes for the garden because I would n't have room for it but it 's certainly a yes yes in my shelter delt because the birds love the berries and it really encourages them to use that shelter delt but it is n't as , as easy to grow , it 's , one tends to think of the nature plant as a tough plant but I 've been trying to establish about thirty of these in the shelter delt and I 've found they object to any form of total weedkiller round the root , so all the , the weedkillers that you would use for the first couple of years maybe to , to keep the , the weeds from growing round the stems , they tend to get chlorotic and die . |
| 28 | But he has been trying to unload the firm since last year to help his debt-laden holding company , BTF , and clear the way for him to pursue his political career . |
| 29 | went to put the , he , he went away again , but I , I did mention to the police , who I might say were very helpful were ninety per cent of burglars do n't get cleared up so of course it was n't important and I never expected it would be , but I did mention to the police at the time that I would like an future occasion because I 've been trying to use guns in America er to have a gun in the house but they er , but they would n't erm agree to it at all |
| 30 | Because I 've been trying to swop between that one and that one . |