Example sentences of "[pers pn] 've be trying [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There does n't seem to be much of it about , not even many DFs , so I 've been trying to stock up lately . |
| 2 | The man I 've been trying to reach ever since I first started this whole thing . ’ |
| 3 | What I want to do today , what I 've been trying to do today is to spend that time looking at certain aspects of the way the business works , the way you work . |
| 4 | I 've been trying to get through to him in New York for weeks , and when he finally shows up in the office I 'm covered in green face-mask . |
| 5 | ‘ I suppose , ’ said Floy , thoughtfully , fixing Caspar with an equally meaningful stare , ‘ that we can trust you , can we ? ’ and Caspar said , ‘ Oh , for the — Floy , I 've been trying to get away from these creatures ever since they took Tara ! |
| 6 | Yes it 's it 's it was one of the er advertisements or programmes that went out on radio er again this is why I 've been trying to get over to people the sad things that have to happen to animals . |
| 7 | ‘ Look Aurora , this proves the point I 've been trying to make all along . |
| 8 | Yeah , I 've been trying to find out what |
| 9 | I 've been trying to work out which issue of Woodworker — while editor — I thought was best , and as none come directly to mind , I 'd have to say it is this one . |
| 10 | Well it 's not a yes yes for the garden because I would n't have room for it but it 's certainly a yes yes in my shelter delt because the birds love the berries and it really encourages them to use that shelter delt but it is n't as , as easy to grow , it 's , one tends to think of the nature plant as a tough plant but I 've been trying to establish about thirty of these in the shelter delt and I 've found they object to any form of total weedkiller round the root , so all the , the weedkillers that you would use for the first couple of years maybe to , to keep the , the weeds from growing round the stems , they tend to get chlorotic and die . |
| 11 | So that few minutes at the end is important for picking up these extra marks you 've been trying to throw away , okay , where you can do it , and the few minutes at the beginning is to look through and find that question wherever it was , that one on the last page . |
| 12 | well we 've been trying to think how we could get the best out of Colin for the past four bloody years . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |