Example sentences of "we [verb] been trying [prep] " in BNC.

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1 As you 're aware , we 've been trying to or organize this sort of open forum , engineering in the house in September
2 We 've been trying to .
3 This County Council failed to do it from the time , time it was formed until eighty-five ; it failed even to address the problem , never mind do it , and we 've been trying to , to sort of do some catching up .
4 We 've been trying for some time to employ as many players as possible during the winter , and this sponsorship means that it should be possible to take the worry of finding winter employment away from virtually all of them .
5 We have been trying for years , centuries , to establish this and it is only because of help from outside that we have been able to do it now .
6 Murray said : ‘ We have been trying for months to sign the right sort of player to replace Joe Allon .
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