Example sentences of "we have [been] trying " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | But all the years we 've been trying . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've been trying to wake him for half an hour , ’ said Fritz . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | well we 've been trying to think how we could get the best out of Colin for the past four bloody years . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | As you 're aware , we 've been trying to or organize this sort of open forum , engineering in the house in September |
| 12 | You ca n't , take your point which we 've been trying to tackle at national account level |
| 13 | Do you realize we 've been trying to get ready for twenty minutes ? |
| 14 | We 've been trying to . |
| 15 | Oh we 've been trying to get him to sleep through . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We had been trying to understand the teacher 's purposes and actions in enabling successful collaboration to take place . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We have been trying to focus in this study on those people within the enterprise who are in a position to effect strategic change ( or to maintain the status quo in the face of destabilising influences ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We have been trying to stop the deteriorating effects of ageing on our skin since the times of the pharaohs . |
| 26 | We have been trying to lay on chances for each other . |
| 27 | Leigh chief executive John Stringer said : ‘ We have been trying to sign John for weeks . |
| 28 | And on 15 May , the morning of the Maurice debate , he recorded : ‘ We proceeded thus : S.B. — ’ You know , PM , that for ten years we have been trying to catch you deviating by an inch from the strict path of veracity and pin you down . |
| 29 | What we have been trying to do is to find " subsidy-free " prices which will cover the costs of the enterprise . |
| 30 | David said : ‘ We have been trying to promote a professional image and get away from everyone 's idea of school dinners or canteen catering . |