Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was looking at the ground , he seemed to be concentrating ; he might 've been trying to remember something . |
| 2 | We would 've been revising had we not been here . |
| 3 | Eager to lessen its dependence on the highly regulated and increasingly competitive British telecoms market , BT has been struggling to turn itself into a ‘ one-stop-shop ’ provider of global telecoms services for multinationals . |
| 4 | In this sense , social work has been struggling to free itself from the same trap as much of British industry . |
| 5 | The 34-year-old still managed to win 21-17 , 21-9 against Cooke , who has been struggling to find his best form all season . |
| 6 | Mr Aznar has been trying to exploit their success by taking time out of his campaign to visit Jacques Chirac ( and , for some reason , John Major ) . |
| 7 | But at this second exhibition Flatpattern 's ex-wife , who has been trying to track him down for alimony , appears , denounces him and the syndicate and mayhem breaks out . |
| 8 | Saddam Hussein disagrees with what the Kurds would like and has been trying to eradicate them from Iraq by killing them with his powerful army . |
| 9 | The hunting lobby has been trying to improve its public image with a campaign to put the case for its controversial sport . |
| 10 | ‘ A Mr Rutherford has been trying to reach you . |
| 11 | There are numerous accounts from researchers or trainers who start their contact with dolphins thinking they will teach a dolphin how to communicate with humans , and end up wondering it in Fact the dolphin has been trying to teach us a thing or two about communicating with them . |
| 12 | The lessons which Donaldson has been trying to teach us are reflected throughout the following chapters . |
| 13 | Which is a lot is n't it really , once we come down to it , you know we 've had a two solid hours of what God has been trying to teach us today . |
| 14 | ‘ Please do n't think that you are the only one who has been trying to suppress your feelings , ’ she said at last , plumping for simplicity . |
| 15 | Samsung has been trying to discard its somewhat downmarket image for some time . |
| 16 | GEORGE Bush must be wondering whether the music business has been trying to tell him something . |
| 17 | Minginish has been trying to keep me here , in the Rorim . |
| 18 | Intel has been trying to get itself known better recently with television and magazine advertising to offset the rising power of several competitors . |
| 19 | Assume that it has been trying to help you , in some misguided way . |
| 20 | Its owner , Okan Guney , has been trying to breed them at this home in Kidlington for two years . |
| 21 | ‘ I am convinced someone has been trying to poison them , ’ she said . |
| 22 | Fujitsu has been trying to expand its share by offering massive discounts . |
| 23 | The $420m a year that America has been getting to compensate it for the loss in sales of farm products to Spain and Portugal after they joined the Community was due to run out in 1990 . |
| 24 | The NP has been seeking to make itself acceptable to non-whites and what better way than this . |
| 25 | Mr Fitzwater reiterated President Bush 's denial earlier in the day that the United States , which has indicted General Noriega on drug trafficking charges and has been seeking to oust him for nearly two years , had initiated the revolt . |
| 26 | The organisation is about to move away from the combined paper-based and spreadsheet systems it has been using to produce its statutory and management accounts . |
| 27 | It matters to the democracies because it is a battle about ideas they believe in , because it is on their doorstep , and because the rest of the world has been watching to see what they would do about it . |
| 28 | Her boyfriend has been helping comfort her grieving family in Gloucester . |
| 29 | But here Mr Lawson does not seem to be quite so indifferent to the behaviour of consenting adults : he has been endeavouring to control their behaviour by altering the price at which they can borrow . |
| 30 | ‘ Sir David has been attempting to tell his son the facts of life for the last five years . |