Example sentences of "i have been trying [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been trying to go to sleep . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd been trying to see as little as possible of him towards the end of term . |
| 3 | Then I found out that Jim was making all the original pedals as well , so I decided to get rid of all the stuff I 'd been trying to make all these sounds with and just use the original things . |
| 4 | I knew I 'd overdone the garlic in the Rogan Josh because I 'd been trying to impress Zaria . |
| 5 | I 'd been trying to get into training since I was fourteen . |
| 6 | I had been trying to negotiate the Friday lunch-time run , which was the most lucrative , office-party wise , as ER was always on the lookout for reliable drivers who could not only deliver their people but hang around and pick them up . |
| 7 | I feel badly let down by Penguin because this was more or less what I had been trying to persuade them all along would happen . |
| 8 | Ever since the happy visit of the year before , I had been trying to persuade him to pay a second and , if possible , longer visit . |
| 9 | I had been trying to pick up a barman in a pub in Hammersmith . |
| 10 | We began by talking about food , but food quickly became boring and was replaced by feelings , the things I had been trying to stuff down with food . |
| 11 | ‘ In terms of ideas , I had been trying to produce pictures at that time which had a very flat , two-dimensional feel to them , being torn between what I think are two different ends of photography , but which both have that quality . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There does n't seem to be much of it about , not even many DFs , so I 've been trying to stock up lately . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been trying to remember , ever since one of your men telephoned to say somebody would be along to talk to me . |
| 16 | ‘ All the way over I 've been trying to remember it . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been trying to reach you . ’ |
| 18 | She said , ‘ I 've been trying to reach Robin Culley . ’ |
| 19 | Taking a folder from a wire tray on the desk , he said , ‘ I 've been trying to reach you all morning . ’ |
| 20 | The man I 've been trying to reach ever since I first started this whole thing . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | What I 've been trying to do on the meantime is to improve the whole budgeting system . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | For thirty years I 've been trying to give an affirmative reply to that question . |
| 27 | I 've been I mean I 've been trying to give our a bit of a hand whenever i can , in |
| 28 | I 've been trying to liaise with the Save our Forests which is and forestry privatization and technically I 'm on the committee . |
| 29 | I 've been trying to generate IPX files using SHGEN , but I 'm obviously doing something wrong . |
| 30 | I 've been trying to draw him today . |