Example sentences of "she [verb] be trying [verb] " in BNC.

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1 She has been trying to stake a claim which I vow to you on my honour she has never had a right to .
2 The only thing she 'd been trying to do was calm Guido down and defuse the situation .
3 Though why she 'd been trying to do that , heaven only knew .
4 Ace asked in a tone that betrayed the worry she 'd been trying to hide .
5 She 'd been trying to prove that I was on drugs since I was fourteen .
6 She told me when we were staying there that she 'd been trying to conceive ever since her wedding . ’
7 She 'd been trying to get rid of it and then suddenly it worked and she lost the baby .
8 but erm she 'd been trying to get hold of George I think for about two hours .
9 By then she could just about face up to the knowledge she had been trying to resist since February 1944 ; that every last member of her family had died in the concentration camps .
10 Though , since her denial was hardly any excuse for the way she had been trying to bolt to her room , she felt honour-bound to give him just as straightforward an explanation .
11 Rachel 's heart skipped a beat at her first sight of him and if she had been trying to delude herself that David had asked her along purely for the sake of her new friends she was forced to dismiss it as his gaze met hers .
12 Lindsey sank back into her seat , trying to digest the thought that that was precisely what she had been trying to do from the minute she had met him , and it had n't got her very far .
13 One of the pink slips was a Returning-Your-Call message from a recently-elected female politician she had been trying to contact for days .
14 He was probably quite old , then , Lindsey thought , busily fitting pieces into the mental jigsaw she had been trying to build up of her new boss .
15 Right leg bent double , knee red from impact , a scatter of dark soil across her calf , as if she had been trying to run even as she fell .
16 She had been trying to marshal a persuasive line of argument in her mind .
17 Only hours before she had been trying to pull herself together and thinking she might be winning ; now the future was an aching black void .
18 It was that , not so much her face , she had been trying to conceal .
19 She 's been trying to fix it up since … since you turned up , but the rabbi was off in America .
20 She 's been trying to get the Blaneys out for some time .
21 She 's been trying to get in touch with you for ages .
22 So she 's been trying to get work off her .
23 she 's been trying to get something for the mother of the bride .
24 talking to one of these receptionists today and she says erm she 's been trying to get a bit of erm , she 's split up with her husband , trying to get , a bit of extra money together , you know , to be , she 's got her own house like , buying her own house and all this and that she 's fell into a bloody modelling job and saying get yourself a passport and er on about sending her off to either the South of France or Kenya
25 She 's been trying to adjust herself
26 He said : ‘ And I suppose she 's been trying to convince you it was me . ’
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