Example sentences of "they have been trying [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've been trying to see about that lot where the boys ' grammar school is int they ? |
| 2 | And it 's particularly , I think , acute in the parish of Saint Mary 's and Saint John 's because the vicarage has been empty for two years and erm they built a new house , it was more it was cheaper to build a new house than to do the old one up , but there it 's been sat , empty for two years , and erm they 've been trying to find a buyer . |
| 3 | They 've been trying to find alternative berths for incoming cargoes and negotiating the release of ships waiting to sail on the night time . |
| 4 | This council needs to take seriously crime prevention and crime detection and most of all fear of crime , and that 's why it 's become part of the policy committee 's concern , and I think that 's with the police committee 's agreement , for years they 've been trying to tell us to get involved in crime prevention , and from next year we 're going to do that . |
| 5 | They 've been trying to get the police on the cheap for too long , and blaming us , and now I think the tables are very reversed . |
| 6 | Mrs Draper says they 've been trying to get a larger home for years . |
| 7 | They 've been trying to get him out for years and years ! |
| 8 | They 've been trying to come to terms with what 's happened ever since . |
| 9 | Those who understood this might leave a swatch of fabric lying around so that Laura could pick it up and believe she had discovered it herself , even if they had been trying to persuade her to use it for months . |
| 10 | Radio of Russia on Feb. 16 said that Russian enterprises had a powerful incentive to acquire roubles , and that because of a lack of roubles , they were being forced to put goods on the market which they had been trying to hold back . |
| 11 | Despite the fact that they had been trying to kill each other , against the creature they were united . |
| 12 | Their bodies were contorted and you could see they had been trying to protect their faces with their hands . ’ |
| 13 | Rookies were all the same in the beginning , eager to please and desperate to be judged favourably by their superiors , but within the space of a few months they had become as bitter and cynical as the seasoned policemen they had been trying to impress . |
| 14 | They had been trying to contact her for several days . |
| 15 | After three weeks of intense work and numerous rejected ideas the creative team of copywriter Liz Whiston and art director Dave Shelton felt they had been trying to solve one of humanity 's great challenges . |
| 16 | They had been trying to maintain a steady pace , between hopping and running , and it had come hard . |
| 17 | In addition to normal responsibilities , which include making new investments , approaching new potential customers and keeping existing customers happy , Mr Queen says that they have been trying to educate the professional community to recognise when a company is going to need more working capital . |
| 18 | In other words , they have been trying to scratch themselves on the sandy bottom and get stranded by accident . |
| 19 | They have been trying to design a new force structure that would both live within the expected budget cuts and be capable of responding effectively to all imaginable crises . |
| 20 | It is for this reason that most doctors will not generally accept that couples have a fertility problem until they have been trying to conceive for at the very least a year . |
| 21 | ‘ It looks as though they have been trying to get rid of me here for three years . |