Example sentences of "have been trying [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SIR — The fact that Steve Redfern has been trying for six years to resume playing rugby union after playing rugby league ( Daily Telegraph , April 2 ) shows that union is a more enjoyable game . |
| 2 | The crowds at Constitution Dock cheered the owner who has been trying for 20 years to score a major success in this race . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Andrew 's family has been trying for three years to get treatment for him . |
| 5 | Mr Kemp has been trying for several years to prod the White House into launching a serious anti-poverty programme . |
| 6 | Brian Clough has been trying for several weeks to recapture the man he sees as a key player in his fight to lift Forest off the bottom of the Premier League . |
| 7 | Mr Roland ’ Tiny ’ Rowland , head of Lonrho , has been trying since 1977 to acquire House of Fraser , owner of Harrods in Knightsbridge , London , and of various other department stores throughout the land . |
| 8 | The Old Stopfordians ' Association had been trying for many years to raise sufficient money to build the Pavilion , and indeed had sold the Harrison Towns field some three years previously for this very reason . |
| 9 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 10 | To offer a perhaps extreme example , the Gloucestershire clothiers who celebrated the completing in 1779 – 82 of the Stroudwater Canal had been trying since 1730 to intercept the coal supplies moving down the Severn from the pits of the Midlands . |
| 11 | ‘ Lucky devil , I 've been trying for eight years and still have n't cracked it yet . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been trying for forty years and the margin of error 's still about eighty per cent . ’ |
| 14 | Q I have been trying with little success to get hold of a list of camping barn and bunkhouse type accommodations . |
| 15 | ‘ Daddy 's been trying like mad to get hold of some . |