Example sentences of "have been trying [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exhausted by the glare of fame that has been his lot since NME elevated him to cult status TDFC ( as we like to call him , being mates and all that ) has been trying to relax by helping his bandmate CARL build a replica of London out of matchsticks in his Manchester bedroom . |
| 2 | ‘ For 20 years ’ , said Mr Beckman , ‘ the European Community has been trying to agree on air fares . |
| 3 | Noise from vehicles is something the Government has been trying to tackle for more than 20 years . |
| 4 | I think one of them has been trying to talk to me . ’ |
| 5 | And thirdly , I have certain highly specialized information about this planet , worrying enough in itself , that somebody has been trying to prise from my mind . |
| 6 | In a speech that blended music-hall style with soap-box rhetoric , the veteran left wing MP for Bolsover , said : ‘ For too long the Labour Party has been trying to follow in the wake of Mrs Thatcher 's agenda . |
| 7 | Pablo Benavides , the European Community official who has been trying to mediate between Slovakia and Hungary over the future of the Gabcikovo hydroelectric project [ see ED 67 , 68 ] , has said that his efforts to negotiate a compromise have " reached the limit of possibilities " . |
| 8 | I 'd been trying to go to sleep . |
| 9 | so as he 'd been trying to get through it was always engaged . |
| 10 | I 'd been trying to get into training since I was fourteen . |
| 11 | Kate gave him a suspicious look , but he seemed to have recovered from the rage she 'd been fairly sure he 'd been trying to keep under control before she left the room . |
| 12 | Timid winds of change had been trying to blow in Spanish universities since 1951 , when a relatively progressive Minister of Education , Joaquin Ruiz-Giménez , had initiated an attempt to revitalize and open up the torpid and reactionary Spanish education system . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He had been trying to talk to Sir Alexander Cadogan , the Cabinet 's linkman with the secret services , but had been told that he was busy . |
| 15 | By then she could just about face up to the knowledge she had been trying to resist since February 1944 ; that every last member of her family had died in the concentration camps . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Though , since her denial was hardly any excuse for the way she had been trying to bolt to her room , she felt honour-bound to give him just as straightforward an explanation . |
| 18 | There then appeared a chink of light when we were advised by Mr F. Musgrave of Saintfield that he wished to sell the site of the former Ballynahinch Junction Station , a site which the Trust had been trying to secure for the past 20 years . |
| 19 | Robert recognized faces he had been trying to avoid for weeks . |
| 20 | One of the pink slips was a Returning-Your-Call message from a recently-elected female politician she had been trying to contact for days . |
| 21 | Helen had been trying to learn for some time , but she found it very hard although Tony was endlessly patient with her . |
| 22 | I had been trying to produce in Jimbo the necessary mental awareness that the real cure — the reopening of the nerve pathways — lay in the end with him . |
| 23 | Director Alvin Rakoff had problems with Crawford when it came to a crucial , very dramatic scene that he shared with Donald Pleasence , who was playing the police officer who could see a way to nailing the crook whom he had been trying to get for twenty years through his son . |
| 24 | The AS presumably indicates Andrew Stavanger , and the TMJ will be his secretary , or one of the typing staff And it reads sensibly enough — it is just the sort of letter that he might have been expected to write if he got back to his office late and were told that you had been trying to get in touch with him . |
| 25 | Pc James Crane , one of six officers who had searched for the alleged raiders , said both men had been trying to hide in bushes and ferns . |
| 26 | Covering her impatience , she told him that some keys similar to MacQuillan 's desk keys had been found and Ruby had been trying to divine from them the identity of their owner . |
| 27 | But BitC was an outfit with drive , enthusiasm , and a determination to make the sort of changes in society that Charles had been trying to make for years . |
| 28 | He said that there had been a postal strike and that he had been trying to write to me and as the mail was getting through , I should get the letters . |
| 29 | You ca n't , take your point which we 've been trying to tackle at national account level |
| 30 | I 've been trying to liaise with the Save our Forests which is and forestry privatization and technically I 'm on the committee . |