Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been trying [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think one of them has been trying to talk to me . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd been trying to go to sleep . |
| 3 | I 'd been trying to get into training since I was fourteen . |
| 4 | I had been trying to produce in Jimbo the necessary mental awareness that the real cure — the reopening of the nerve pathways — lay in the end with him . |
| 5 | What I 've been trying to do on the meantime is to improve the whole budgeting system . |
| 6 | So you see what I 've been , what I 've been trying to do in this lecture is to explain the , the modern biological basis which I think makes Freud 's findings intelligent . |
| 7 | I 've been trying to liaise with the Save our Forests which is and forestry privatization and technically I 'm on the committee . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been trying to go for the last half-hour , ’ he whispered , ‘ but you wo n't let go of my neck ! ’ |
| 9 | I 've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour , and I ca n't . |
| 10 | To you it 's just home , but to me it 's the place I 've been trying to get to . |
| 11 | ‘ Even so , I 've been trying to get to this level for seven or eight years , even though I knew that people liked what I did . |
| 12 | Because I 've been trying to swop between that one and that one . |
| 13 | She said , ‘ I 've been trying to think about Wayne , but instead I 've been thinking about myself . |
| 14 | I , I , do not understand Chairman that reading this motion , I 've been trying to think about it , how on earth this is going to be monitored . |
| 15 | Sorry , Benny ; I 've been trying to communicate with — with whatever it is that 's up there . |
| 16 | A lot of folks drop their guard when they think they 're dealing with a man of simple mind — and if behind that kind of pose you hide the steely determination I 've been trying to drum into you , son , you 'll do just fine . " |
| 17 | I 've been trying to write about him for weeks . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | You 've been trying to over-compensate for Eddie 's death for far too long . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Lindsey sank back into her seat , trying to digest the thought that that was precisely what she had been trying to do from the minute she had met him , and it had n't got her very far . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It may just be the book you have been trying to find for years ! |
| 26 | She 's been trying to get in touch with you for ages . |
| 27 | You ca n't , take your point which we 've been trying to tackle at national account level |
| 28 | We have been trying to lay on chances for each other . |
| 29 | We have been trying to din into the heads of the electricity boards an inkling that different people are susceptible to different levels of radiation exposure and that there is no safe level . |
| 30 | Although they were perfectly competent people and good at their jobs , they were never going to become part of the new culture which we have been trying to design for the Storehouse group . |