Example sentences of "[vb past] been trying [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It depends on his attitude , if he 'd been trying to pull a fast one on you and er |
| 2 | He had drunk three glasses of home-made wine and had been trying to watch a film on television , but was unable to get interested in it . |
| 3 | She could smell the wood-smoke : someone had been trying to light a fire . |
| 4 | Zborowski had been trying to find a way of flattering the old man ever since the party arrived in Nice . |
| 5 | They could tell from his footprints in the snow that he had been trying to find a fold , which is what we call a stone shelter built for gathering sheep . |
| 6 | Here was a woman who had been trying to have a child ever since her marriage and yet she , Celia , had conceived not merely without any difficulty but on the one and only time she had not taken steps to prevent it . |
| 7 | She had been trying to marshal a persuasive line of argument in her mind . |
| 8 | Libby and George had been trying to build a bridge with logs pulled from the wood and tied with twine from the farm to stop them rolling apart . |
| 9 | I had been trying to get a membership list for the Cicero Club , but the only other name I could come up with was George Macready , a scarfaced iceman who had a profitable share of the City 's gambling and was best known for his sword-extruding walking stick . |
| 10 | They had been trying to maintain a steady pace , between hopping and running , and it had come hard . |
| 11 | He felt certain that Paul Lexington had been trying to pull a fast one on his coproducer . |