Example sentences of "had be trying [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She could smell the wood-smoke : someone had been trying to light a fire . |
| 3 | Zborowski had been trying to find a way of flattering the old man ever since the party arrived in Nice . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Parish council chairman Alec Templeton said members had been trying to find an adventure area to get young bikers away from footpaths and roads because most were not even old enough to be licensed . |
| 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 . |