Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] have been trying [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For almost half an hour I 've been trying to get them out , but it 's impossible . ’ |
| 2 | A lot of folks drop their guard when they think they 're dealing with a man of simple mind — and if behind that kind of pose you hide the steely determination I 've been trying to drum into you , son , you 'll do just fine . " |
| 3 | She was staring at him , with her great golden eyes , and her expression was so sad and apprehensive that the sight of it shocked him into asking the question he had been trying to ignore . |
| 4 | Ace asked in a tone that betrayed the worry she 'd been trying to hide . |
| 5 | To you it 's just home , but to me it 's the place I 've been trying to get to . |
| 6 | ‘ Look Aurora , this proves the point I 've been trying to make all along . |
| 7 | Then I found out that Jim was making all the original pedals as well , so I decided to get rid of all the stuff I 'd been trying to make all these sounds with and just use the original things . |
| 8 | By then she could just about face up to the knowledge she had been trying to resist since February 1944 ; that every last member of her family had died in the concentration camps . |
| 9 | ‘ At the risk of sounding self-pitying — a bad habit I 've been trying to break — nobody ever gives me anything . |
| 10 | There is no reason for fear or concern and that is the feeling we have been trying to get across . |
| 11 | The man I 've been trying to reach ever since I first started this whole thing . ’ |
| 12 | He was probably quite old , then , Lindsey thought , busily fitting pieces into the mental jigsaw she had been trying to build up of her new boss . |
| 13 | ‘ The thing I 've been trying to do all along is to create a very large-sounding rock record — orchestrated , in a way — combining that with my songwriting style , which is pretty eclectic , I suppose . |
| 14 | The only thing she 'd been trying to do was calm Guido down and defuse the situation . |
| 15 | It may just be the book you have been trying to find for years ! |
| 16 | On the debit side we have dropped one day on the calving interval to 376 days , although not a disaster we had been trying to improve that but our heifers are calving at 28 months instead of two years three months . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | One of the pink slips was a Returning-Your-Call message from a recently-elected female politician she had been trying to contact for days . |
| 20 | ‘ Was he taking it to the person it belongs to ? ’ he asked at last , and it was as though all the time he had been trying to frame the question in a special way . |