Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been trying [to-vb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She 's been trying to get in touch with you for ages . |
| 5 | We have been trying to focus in this study on those people within the enterprise who are in a position to effect strategic change ( or to maintain the status quo in the face of destabilising influences ) . |