Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been trying to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The thing I 've been trying to do all along is to create a very large-sounding rock record — orchestrated , in a way — combining that with my songwriting style , which is pretty eclectic , I suppose . |
| 2 | What I 've been trying to do on the meantime is to improve the whole budgeting system . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The only thing she 'd been trying to do was calm Guido down and defuse the situation . |
| 7 | Though why she 'd been trying to do that , heaven only knew . |
| 8 | I 'm sure that 's that 's gon na work against what you 've been trying to do since you got here . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | well I think that , that the , the sending out of the press release immediately was , was quite correct , because obviously people had ride that , sorry people may have read that and something therefore had to be said , my personal view was that really this article is you had , if you like had undone everything that we had been trying to do , erm and put us in a bad light and it maybe my Scottish background , but I do n't like people calling in to question my motives and the companies motives , erm and I felt that it went straight to what we were really standing for , given what I explained about my thoughts in nineteen eighty seven , it was hitting straight to the core of the whole proposition and everything that stood for , erm and that is what was the great concern and because it was n't just like a , a mild slap in the face it was more like a knife in the ribs , it was therefore required a lot more thinking about as to the reaction that we would then have to come up with . |
| 12 | What we have been trying to do is to find " subsidy-free " prices which will cover the costs of the enterprise . |
| 13 | Through surveys and informal questioning and , more recently , partnerships we have been trying to do that . ’ |
| 14 | All he has been trying to do is to trying to ensure that there 's been even-handed play here on all the stadium sites and it 's disgraceful that his name has been dragged into this ! |
| 15 | He 's been trying to do something about the brambles and nettles . ’ |