Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] have been trying [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truth is that I have this slight problem with my jaw It gets sort of locked sometimes and I think in that picture I must have been trying to loosen it up . ’ |
| 2 | She might have been trying to reach our Post for help , but she had crawled under the last parapet , and could go no farther . |
| 3 | However , he also thought she might have been trying to demonstrate the extent of her distress to her family and possibly to her husband . |
| 4 | She could have been trying to picture the place where Zeno and she might meet ; some barren scrap of land inside her head . |
| 5 | who was sitting in the audience who is a nurse and er would 've known and she would 've been trying to get in and say this is not true . |
| 6 | A spokesman said they could have been trying to race the MG . |
| 7 | ‘ I believe he may have been trying to contact me . |
| 8 | He must have been trying to hide the feelings that the sight of Rocamar conjured up , for he himself had dubbed it a romantic dream — and the dream had failed . |
| 9 | He was looking at the ground , he seemed to be concentrating ; he might 've been trying to remember something . |
| 10 | We think he might have been trying to find you . ’ |