Example sentences of "which [pron] had been trying " in BNC.

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1 And then Clelia sighed heavily , and looked sadly at Clara 's Japanese wooden egg puzzle , which she had been trying all this while to do , and said , " How very dull for you , to hear all about my affairs , but I do so like to tell the story of my life , it makes me feel as though things hive re ally happened to me , whereas otherwise they seem not to happen . "
2 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 .
3 MIT members were shown , in detail , the market which they had been trying for years to service .
4 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 .
5 Harry put down the hairbrush with which he had been trying to smooth his unruly curls , and turned to face Madeleine 's brother .
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