Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been trying [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed . |
| 2 | No , not just one day , as I said , I 'd been trying for a few |
| 3 | Cos that 's why I did n't get any when I got my last prescription because I 'd been trying to just sort of even take one |
| 4 | Er , my experience is slightly different when erm when I had been trying to sort of recover , I did n't , I did n't feel as if I 've get any help from professionals that I approached . |
| 5 | I had been trying for a year to obtain some black Amazon wood for my Discus tank , but my local dealers did not stock it . |
| 6 | I 've been trying to be a footballer , and that is n't me . |
| 7 | I 've got a trainee manager at the moment and I 've been trying to he 's just making such a balls up it 's easier not to . |
| 8 | I 've been trying to . |
| 9 | For twelve months , I 've been trying to er , when I realised that that was put on my cleaning bill , it seemed to be so unfair that the little ol and the lady who , up till now has has cleaned for me , because the home help service , no longer just does cleaning . |
| 10 | So I 've been trying , I 've been trying to sort of , I I was arguing saying , I do n't think that 's true . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been trying for forty years and the margin of error 's still about eighty per cent . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Lucky devil , I 've been trying for eight years and still have n't cracked it yet . ’ |
| 13 | I 've been trying for days , though , I 'm coming over tomorrow . |
| 14 | and I 've been trying for ages but there just has n't been any cos |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been trying like hell to do it , ’ said Daly . |
| 16 | The woman , who is married and lives in Formby , Sefton , said : ‘ I have been trying for a child for 19 years . |
| 17 | Q I have been trying with little success to get hold of a list of camping barn and bunkhouse type accommodations . |
| 18 | A READER writes that she has been trying for weeks to find the outcome of the Prime Minister 's ‘ Taking Stock ’ exercise . |
| 19 | There 's nothing new in that — she 's been trying for years . |
| 20 | As you 're aware , we 've been trying to or organize this sort of open forum , engineering in the house in September |
| 21 | We 've been trying to . |
| 22 | This County Council failed to do it from the time , time it was formed until eighty-five ; it failed even to address the problem , never mind do it , and we 've been trying to , to sort of do some catching up . |
| 23 | We 've been trying for some time to employ as many players as possible during the winter , and this sponsorship means that it should be possible to take the worry of finding winter employment away from virtually all of them . |
| 24 | We have been trying for years , centuries , to establish this and it is only because of help from outside that we have been able to do it now . |
| 25 | Murray said : ‘ We have been trying for months to sign the right sort of player to replace Joe Allon . |
| 26 | But if you can actually influence the French let us know because , or let the government know , because they , they 've been trying for years ever since Napoleon 's day , to try and do something . |
| 27 | MIT members were shown , in detail , the market which they had been trying for years to service . |
| 28 | For months they had been trying with divets and tackle to hoist the appropriate two-ton stone upright and into its hole . |
| 29 | He has been trying for three years and he said today : ‘ Maybe it is because , God knows , I 've had some leg problems and I just can not climb those steps that easily , ’ he joked . |
| 30 | And he 'd known it , all the time he 'd been trying to bed her . |