Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] have been trying [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There does n't seem to be much of it about , not even many DFs , so I 've been trying to stock up lately . |
| 2 | Weather gets nastier here — my week in 21–28 October was warm and wet , so I lazed and read and ate — read a lot and ate a lot which , given the state of the bathroom scales , enriched both mind and body ( HA HA ) so I have been trying to eat and drink less . |
| 3 | Cos I 've been trying to organise it . |
| 4 | Rachel 's heart skipped a beat at her first sight of him and if she had been trying to delude herself that David had asked her along purely for the sake of her new friends she was forced to dismiss it as his gaze met hers . |
| 5 | Right leg bent double , knee red from impact , a scatter of dark soil across her calf , as if she had been trying to run even as she fell . |
| 6 | Those who understood this might leave a swatch of fabric lying around so that Laura could pick it up and believe she had discovered it herself , even if they had been trying to persuade her to use it for months . |
| 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 . |
| 8 | It depends on his attitude , if he 'd been trying to pull a fast one on you and er |
| 9 | went to put the , he , he went away again , but I , I did mention to the police , who I might say were very helpful were ninety per cent of burglars do n't get cleared up so of course it was n't important and I never expected it would be , but I did mention to the police at the time that I would like an future occasion because I 've been trying to use guns in America er to have a gun in the house but they er , but they would n't erm agree to it at all |
| 10 | Because I 've been trying to swop between that one and that one . |
| 11 | Erm , I 've been in discussion , because I 've been trying to rescue their electricity bill situation , which is again , something which has blown up on them . |
| 12 | I knew I 'd overdone the garlic in the Rogan Josh because I 'd been trying to impress Zaria . |
| 13 | We have lost it , I think , because we have been trying to lose the people and feelings it used to describe . |
| 14 | Only hours before she had been trying to pull herself together and thinking she might be winning ; now the future was an aching black void . |
| 15 | When you 've been trying to get rid of me ever since we met ? |
| 16 | ‘ It looks as though they have been trying to get rid of me here for three years . |
| 17 | so as he 'd been trying to get through it was always engaged . |