Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been trying for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I 've been trying for ages but there just has n't been any cos |
| 2 | I 've been trying for days , though , I 'm coming over tomorrow . |
| 3 | A READER writes that she has been trying for weeks to find the outcome of the Prime Minister 's ‘ Taking Stock ’ exercise . |
| 4 | There 's nothing new in that — she 's been trying for years . |
| 5 | We have been trying for years , centuries , to establish this and it is only because of help from outside that we have been able to do it now . |
| 6 | Murray said : ‘ We have been trying for months to sign the right sort of player to replace Joe Allon . |
| 7 | But if you can actually influence the French let us know because , or let the government know , because they , they 've been trying for years ever since Napoleon 's day , to try and do something . |
| 8 | MIT members were shown , in detail , the market which they had been trying for years to service . |