Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] trying for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed . |
| 2 | No , not just one day , as I said , I 'd been trying for a few |
| 3 | I had been trying for a year to obtain some black Amazon wood for my Discus tank , but my local dealers did not stock it . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been trying for forty years and the margin of error 's still about eighty per cent . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Lucky devil , I 've been trying for eight years and still have n't cracked it yet . ’ |
| 6 | I 've been trying for days , though , I 'm coming over tomorrow . |
| 7 | and I 've been trying for ages but there just has n't been any cos |
| 8 | The woman , who is married and lives in Formby , Sefton , said : ‘ I have been trying for a child for 19 years . |
| 9 | A READER writes that she has been trying for weeks to find the outcome of the Prime Minister 's ‘ Taking Stock ’ exercise . |
| 10 | There 's nothing new in that — she 's been trying for years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Murray said : ‘ We have been trying for months to sign the right sort of player to replace Joe Allon . |
| 14 | But if you can actually influence the French let us know because , or let the government know , because they , they 've been trying for years ever since Napoleon 's day , to try and do something . |
| 15 | MIT members were shown , in detail , the market which they had been trying for years to service . |
| 16 | He has been trying for three years and he said today : ‘ Maybe it is because , God knows , I 've had some leg problems and I just can not climb those steps that easily , ’ he joked . |
| 17 | And he had to go and train somewhere down south , but he 's got a he , apparently he 'd been trying for a year and he 's got to Accrington . |
| 18 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 19 | Buckby , who is also secretary of the Langbaurgh Schools Cross Country Association , said he had been trying for nearly ten years to have the rule changed . |