Example sentences of "[pers pn] 've be trying " in BNC.
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| 1 | To you it 's just home , but to me it 's the place I 've been trying to get to . |
| 2 | I 've been trying to be a footballer , and that is n't me . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been trying for forty years and the margin of error 's still about eighty per cent . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't you think I 've been trying to believe that ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been trying like hell to do it , ’ said Daly . |
| 6 | ‘ For the last three bleedin' weeks , I 've been trying to forget it , ’ Parks complained . |
| 7 | For thirty years I 've been trying to give an affirmative reply to that question . |
| 8 | Ever since then I 've been trying to get the speed back . ’ |
| 9 | Well , I 'll have to find a place to lay my cropped and weary head for the night , wo n't I. This is the bit I 've been trying not to think about . |
| 10 | Do n't you understand what I 've been trying to tell you ? |
| 11 | ‘ It 's a sad time for me , but this is something for which I 've been trying to prepare myself for some time , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Great , I 've been trying to get hold of you . |
| 13 | ‘ The thing I 've been trying to do all along is to create a very large-sounding rock record — orchestrated , in a way — combining that with my songwriting style , which is pretty eclectic , I suppose . |
| 14 | ‘ Even so , I 've been trying to get to this level for seven or eight years , even though I knew that people liked what I did . |
| 15 | However , Muslim ex-singer Stevens , now Yusuf Islam 's reaction was anything but angry : ‘ I 've been trying to get record companies to stop selling my records for a long time . |
| 16 | ‘ Lucky devil , I 've been trying for eight years and still have n't cracked it yet . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been trying to get it into his thinking that he has to do more running , that he has to fight more and that there are defensive duties he has to do . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been trying to reach you . ’ |
| 19 | Then , with the massive illogic he was sometimes capable of , Leo said in a quieter voice : ‘ That 's what I 've been trying to say . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been trying to find a tactful way to drop him for ages . ’ |
| 21 | There does n't seem to be much of it about , not even many DFs , so I 've been trying to stock up lately . |
| 22 | What I 've been trying to do on the meantime is to improve the whole budgeting system . |
| 23 | I 've been trying mail order . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I 've been trying to get councillors to find out since then , but that 's a very hard job . |
| 26 | I 've been trying to lead my friends , but I do n't know whether they 'd care to hear me called Chief Rabbit . " |
| 27 | I 've been trying to spot room for that |
| 28 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 29 | I 've been trying to think what we what the n whether it was D Company or C Company but I ca n't recall , that was the Company , that was , I just D Company of the er South Staffs of the whole Walsall area you see , that was D Company . |
| 30 | Now it was a anti-tank weapon only you put a bottle in the tube , or a , a container that had got a i a liquid , I 've been trying to think what it is , can you tell me a liquid that bursts into fl flame when it 's exposed ? |