Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been trying [to-vb] to " 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 | To you it 's just home , but to me it 's the place I 've been trying to get to . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I will not yield to the temptation to reflect on the problems that face this university and the Centre for Continuing Education as part of it , but I think that it 's fair to say that in the future we will be hard put to maintain the volume and variety of the contribution we have been trying to make to adult education in the community . |
| 7 | They 've been trying to come to terms with what 's happened ever since . |
| 8 | He had been trying to talk to Sir Alexander Cadogan , the Cabinet 's linkman with the secret services , but had been told that he was busy . |
| 9 | He said that there had been a postal strike and that he had been trying to write to me and as the mail was getting through , I should get the letters . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's been trying to speak to you to warn you . |