Example sentences of "have be trying to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Le-eyo was distinguished by an error which mankind has been trying to right ever since . |
| 2 | Inevitably we have n't held er er they have n't been able to hold up that new members this year and er the main job has been trying to er keep quite a number of the members who were recruited er to the gen following er the general election . |
| 3 | Cos that 's why I did n't get any when I got my last prescription because I 'd been trying to just sort of even take one |
| 4 | And he 'd known it , all the time he 'd been trying to bed her . |
| 5 | Er , my experience is slightly different when erm when I had been trying to sort of recover , I did n't , I did n't feel as if I 've get any help from professionals that I approached . |
| 6 | Retired businessman had been trying to but the 1936 Armstrong Siddeley for years , but was told the car was not for sale . |
| 7 | I 've been trying to be a footballer , and that is n't me . |
| 8 | As you 're aware , we 've been trying to or organize this sort of open forum , engineering in the house in September |
| 9 | I 've got a trainee manager at the moment and I 've been trying to he 's just making such a balls up it 's easier not to . |
| 10 | I 've been trying to . |
| 11 | We 've been trying to . |
| 12 | For twelve months , I 've been trying to er , when I realised that that was put on my cleaning bill , it seemed to be so unfair that the little ol and the lady who , up till now has has cleaned for me , because the home help service , no longer just does cleaning . |
| 13 | So I 've been trying , I 've been trying to sort of , I I was arguing saying , I do n't think that 's true . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Common to much of the literature has been a notion … that these kids — and many others like them — have been trying to ‘ recover magically ’ territory , both physical and cultural , that they have lost and to appropriate in the same way territory that has never been theirs . |