Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been trying [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ever since the happy visit of the year before , I had been trying to persuade him to pay a second and , if possible , longer visit . |
| 2 | I feel badly let down by Penguin because this was more or less what I had been trying to persuade them all along would happen . |
| 3 | ‘ All the way over I 've been trying to remember it . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been trying to reach you . ’ |
| 5 | Taking a folder from a wire tray on the desk , he said , ‘ I 've been trying to reach you all morning . ’ |
| 6 | I 've been I mean I 've been trying to give our a bit of a hand whenever i can , in |
| 7 | I 've been trying to draw him today . |
| 8 | ‘ Hope that you 'll finally understand what I 've been trying to let you know over the past few days without frightening you away by putting it into words . |
| 9 | I 've been trying to ignore it — scared to face it — trying to pretend I did n't care . |
| 10 | I 've been trying to lead my friends , but I do n't know whether they 'd care to hear me called Chief Rabbit . " |
| 11 | I 've been trying to persuade them — ’ |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | For almost half an hour I 've been trying to get them out , but it 's impossible . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been trying to get him but there 's no reply from his home . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been trying to get her to look for a living-in job , a hotel receptionist maybe , but she wo n't leave her mother . |
| 16 | I 've been trying to get you for ages but your line 's been engaged . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been trying to get you not to block it . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been trying to get it into his thinking that he has to do more running , that he has to fight more and that there are defensive duties he has to do . ’ |
| 19 | I 've been trying to get your number … er … |
| 20 | The man raised his eyebrows , then said , ‘ I 've been trying to keep him as still as possible , Sister . ’ |
| 21 | Cos I 've been trying to organise it . |
| 22 | I 've been trying to ring you to find out . |
| 23 | I 've been trying to learn it , but I have n't got very far |
| 24 | I 've been trying to fight my need for you , but last night proved one thing to me — you and I are dynamite together . |
| 25 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 26 | I 've been trying to think what we what the n whether it was D Company or C Company but I ca n't recall , that was the Company , that was , I just D Company of the er South Staffs of the whole Walsall area you see , that was D Company . |
| 27 | Now it was a anti-tank weapon only you put a bottle in the tube , or a , a container that had got a i a liquid , I 've been trying to think what it is , can you tell me a liquid that bursts into fl flame when it 's exposed ? |
| 28 | I 've been trying to find you for ages . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been trying to find you everywhere . ’ |
| 30 | Like I 've been trying to tell everyone from the beginning . ’ |