Example sentences of "we have been trying [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been trying to see someone there for months , but although I 'd delivered petitions , I 'd never managed to get through the front door . |
| 2 | They 're some of the things that you can think out and er work out you know , that 's , that 's what we 've been trying to do . |
| 3 | You ca n't , take your point which we 've been trying to tackle at national account level |
| 4 | Now the enemy 's all deflated and dead , I feel like all my friends and all the artists were like little pygmies and we 've been trying to kill this elephant all these years with little arrows , and finally tonight … |
| 5 | ‘ We 've been trying to wake him for half an hour , ’ said Fritz . |
| 6 | well we 've been trying to think how we could get the best out of Colin for the past four bloody years . |
| 7 | It 's like a dream in which we 've been trying to get through to people and we 've represented this by seeing ourselves locked inside our homes , desperately trying to get out . |
| 8 | So if I may , I would like to negotiate to one or the other if if you will agree er to that , to try and get us a dance group , we 've been trying to get a dance group for years |
| 9 | I do know that we 've been trying to get er recognition for about fifteen years with that company but can we pursue that issue ? |
| 10 | Do you realize we 've been trying to get ready for twenty minutes ? |
| 11 | Oh we 've been trying to get him to sleep through . |
| 12 | that my sin was laid on you , now what happens is that our relationship with God is restored , that , that chasm , that , that gulf that we 've been trying to get across with our good works with our church attendance with all these other things , suddenly we are , our land with a bridge across it , there 's no longer a barrier there , there 's no longer a great gulf there , Jesus Christ has bridged it , that broken relationship has restored and from this relationship the basis of that relationship we have the power to become as God made us . |
| 13 | well I think that , that the , the sending out of the press release immediately was , was quite correct , because obviously people had ride that , sorry people may have read that and something therefore had to be said , my personal view was that really this article is you had , if you like had undone everything that we had been trying to do , erm and put us in a bad light and it maybe my Scottish background , but I do n't like people calling in to question my motives and the companies motives , erm and I felt that it went straight to what we were really standing for , given what I explained about my thoughts in nineteen eighty seven , it was hitting straight to the core of the whole proposition and everything that stood for , erm and that is what was the great concern and because it was n't just like a , a mild slap in the face it was more like a knife in the ribs , it was therefore required a lot more thinking about as to the reaction that we would then have to come up with . |
| 14 | On the debit side we have dropped one day on the calving interval to 376 days , although not a disaster we had been trying to improve that but our heifers are calving at 28 months instead of two years three months . |
| 15 | ‘ For years we had been trying to lower and streamline the bonnets of front-engined cars and the mid-engined configuration allowed us to obtain an extremely low nose , deeply recessed between sculpted front wings that sloped down to the headlights , which were contained in a plexiglass fairing to continue the line . |
| 16 | We had been trying to understand the teacher 's purposes and actions in enabling successful collaboration to take place . |
| 17 | What we have been trying to do is to find " subsidy-free " prices which will cover the costs of the enterprise . |
| 18 | Through surveys and informal questioning and , more recently , partnerships we have been trying to do that . ’ |
| 19 | We have lost it , I think , because we have been trying to lose the people and feelings it used to describe . |
| 20 | We have been trying to lay on chances for each other . |
| 21 | I think that what we 're really looking for is a stimulating , exciting involvement of parents , of students , of teachers , of everyone who has an interest in the success of a school , and I think for some years at Cardinal Newman we have been trying to create this open society , which gives access at all levels to all the children and to their parents , and we do n't want to close the society in any shape or form . |
| 22 | We have been trying to din into the heads of the electricity boards an inkling that different people are susceptible to different levels of radiation exposure and that there is no safe level . |
| 23 | We have been trying to stop the deteriorating effects of ageing on our skin since the times of the pharaohs . |
| 24 | David said : ‘ We have been trying to promote a professional image and get away from everyone 's idea of school dinners or canteen catering . |
| 25 | For a number of years we have been trying to upgrade the quality of our business , in terms of the technical content of products , the level of design we build in and the price we charge . |
| 26 | Although they were perfectly competent people and good at their jobs , they were never going to become part of the new culture which we have been trying to design for the Storehouse group . |
| 27 | We have been trying to brief some Labour Members , especially the London Members . |
| 28 | I will not yield to the temptation to reflect on the problems that face this university and the Centre for Continuing Education as part of it , but I think that it 's fair to say that in the future we will be hard put to maintain the volume and variety of the contribution we have been trying to make to adult education in the community . |
| 29 | There is no reason for fear or concern and that is the feeling we have been trying to get across . |
| 30 | ‘ We have been trying to raise the profile of the SGU and nothing , as far as I am concerned , raises it more than the Scottish Club Championship , ’ he said . |