Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] have been trying [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's a sad time for me , but this is something for which I 've been trying to prepare myself for some time , ’ he said . |
| 2 | You ca n't , take your point which we 've been trying to tackle at national account level |
| 3 | It 's like a dream in which we 've been trying to get through to people and we 've represented this by seeing ourselves locked inside our homes , desperately trying to get out . |
| 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 | Radio of Russia on Feb. 16 said that Russian enterprises had a powerful incentive to acquire roubles , and that because of a lack of roubles , they were being forced to put goods on the market which they had been trying to hold back . |
| 6 | They looked at each other , Jean-Paul focusing his eyes with difficulty , and Edouard saw the coarsening in his brother which he had been trying to ignore for days . |
| 7 | Harry put down the hairbrush with which he had been trying to smooth his unruly curls , and turned to face Madeleine 's brother . |
| 8 | ‘ Hope that you 'll finally understand what I 've been trying to let you know over the past few days without frightening you away by putting it into words . |
| 9 | Then , with the massive illogic he was sometimes capable of , Leo said in a quieter voice : ‘ That 's what I 've been trying to say . |
| 10 | What I 've been trying to do on the meantime is to improve the whole budgeting system . |
| 11 | So you see what I 've been , what I 've been trying to do in this lecture is to explain the , the modern biological basis which I think makes Freud 's findings intelligent . |
| 12 | What I want to do today , what I 've been trying to do today is to spend that time looking at certain aspects of the way the business works , the way you work . |
| 13 | I mean biologists , when they 're talking to one another , are , by and large , talking about Darwin and that 's what I 've been trying to do . |
| 14 | you know what I 've been trying to get hold of a couple of one of these you know the phones , the phones that Donald 's got |
| 15 | Yes , this is what I 've been trying to avoid because I do n't want the bother of advertising and interviewing somebody else . |
| 16 | Erm , so this is what I 've been trying to avoid , I must be honest about it . |
| 17 | Do n't you understand what I 've been trying to tell you ? |
| 18 | ‘ That 's what I 've been trying to tell you , ’ Myra said . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's exactly what I 've been trying to tell you . ’ |
| 20 | I feel badly let down by Penguin because this was more or less what I had been trying to persuade them all along would happen . |
| 21 | Lindsey sank back into her seat , trying to digest the thought that that was precisely what she had been trying to do from the minute she had met him , and it had n't got her very far . |
| 22 | I 'm sure that 's that 's gon na work against what you 've been trying to do since you got here . |
| 23 | They 're some of the things that you can think out and er work out you know , that 's , that 's what we 've been trying to do . |
| 24 | What we have been trying to do is to find " subsidy-free " prices which will cover the costs of the enterprise . |
| 25 | Entire and accessible to the front of his mind was what he had been trying to recall his wife had said about the picture , but it was n't about the picture . |