Example sentences of "[been] trying [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no biographical key with which it can be unlocked — and I have not been trying to turn one in this essay of mine , which does not believe it , for that matter , to be locked . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've been trying to wake him for half an hour , ’ said Fritz . |
| 3 | Its owner , Okan Guney , has been trying to breed them at this home in Kidlington for two years . |
| 4 | They had been trying to contact her for several days . |
| 5 | ‘ You can be sure that the Greeks have been trying to organise something like this since ‘ The Age of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent ’ was such a success in America ’ , he added , referring to a travelling exhibition of objects from Turkish collections , organised by the National Gallery in 1987 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |