Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been trying [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may just be the book you have been trying to find for years ! |
| 2 | We have been trying to lay on chances for each other . |
| 3 | We have been trying to din into the heads of the electricity boards an inkling that different people are susceptible to different levels of radiation exposure and that there is no safe level . |
| 4 | Although they were perfectly competent people and good at their jobs , they were never going to become part of the new culture which we have been trying to design for the Storehouse group . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | It is for this reason that most doctors will not generally accept that couples have a fertility problem until they have been trying to conceive for at the very least a year . |