Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] been trying [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've actually been trying to make up one about you , Miss Honey , while we 've been sitting here . ’ |
| 2 | For the last couple of days I have frantically been trying to work out some sort of compromise , but whichever way I look at it , I just do not have the cash to flee the country . |
| 3 | this was the very cable I have formerly been trying to make without success . |
| 4 | Aware of this complexity , I have recently been trying to develop a non-traditional approach to describing publicly available business information resources that might help non-specialists appreciate how they come to be . |
| 5 | She 'd only been trying to help . |
| 6 | I think we have probably been trying to reach each other several times in the last week or two unsuccessfully . |
| 7 | We have both been trying to return to some semblance of normality . |
| 8 | I think these projects have , within their localities , often faced a lot of criticism , because they have perhaps been trying to move too far or too fast . |
| 9 | If Albany speaks , it suggests an attempt to reassert authority he has just been trying to give away ( as Gurr proposes about as upbeat a close as leaving Denmark in Fortinbras 's control ) . |
| 10 | He 'd just been trying to squeeze a split-shot on to his line and it had popped out of his fingers . |
| 11 | If he 'd just been trying to clear the hell out , then it meant there were probably other FAKINTIL escapers at large who had n't been able to make it back to the mountains either . |
| 12 | Joyce insisted that he had merely been trying to make his way through the group and had pushed the man in an attempt to get past . |
| 13 | I 'm sorry , ’ she apologised , her action in not leaving a note seeming poor thanks now that she knew he had only been trying to protect her from himself when he 'd called her clinging . |