Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] have [be] trying " 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 And then Clelia sighed heavily , and looked sadly at Clara 's Japanese wooden egg puzzle , which she had been trying all this while to do , and said , " How very dull for you , to hear all about my affairs , but I do so like to tell the story of my life , it makes me feel as though things hive re ally happened to me , whereas otherwise they seem not to happen . "
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 You ca n't , take your point which we 've been trying to tackle at national account level
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 MIT members were shown , in detail , the market which they had been trying for years to service .
8 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 .
9 Harry put down the hairbrush with which he had been trying to smooth his unruly curls , and turned to face Madeleine 's brother .
10 Do n't you understand what I 've been trying to tell you ?
11 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 .
12 What I 've been trying to do on the meantime is to improve the whole budgeting system .
13 ‘ That 's what I 've been trying to tell you , ’ Myra said .
14 ‘ 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 .
15 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 .
16 ‘ That 's exactly what I 've been trying to tell you . ’
17 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
18 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 .
19 Yes , this is what I 've been trying to avoid because I do n't want the bother of advertising and interviewing somebody else .
20 Erm , so this is what I 've been trying to avoid , I must be honest about it .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 I 'm sure that 's that 's gon na work against what you 've been trying to do since you got here .
25 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 .
26 What we have been trying to do is to find " subsidy-free " prices which will cover the costs of the enterprise .
27 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 .
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