Example sentences of "they have be trying " in BNC.

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1 I think one of them has been trying to talk to me . ’
2 They 've been trying all sorts of stuff , ’ said Angalo .
3 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 .
4 They 've been trying to get the police on the cheap for too long , and blaming us , and now I think the tables are very reversed .
5 This council needs to take seriously crime prevention and crime detection and most of all fear of crime , and that 's why it 's become part of the policy committee 's concern , and I think that 's with the police committee 's agreement , for years they 've been trying to tell us to get involved in crime prevention , and from next year we 're going to do that .
6 Mrs Draper says they 've been trying to get a larger home for years .
7 They 've been trying to come to terms with what 's happened ever since .
8 They 've been trying to see about that lot where the boys ' grammar school is int they ?
9 They 've been trying to get him out for years and years !
10 Lots of inquiries about Foster and Allen they 're coming on the programme later they 've just got number one for the first time with their new video with their new single I do n't know I 'm not quite sure we 'll find out when they get here well they 've just got number one for the first time and they 've been trying hard for a long time .
11 And it 's particularly , I think , acute in the parish of Saint Mary 's and Saint John 's because the vicarage has been empty for two years and erm they built a new house , it was more it was cheaper to build a new house than to do the old one up , but there it 's been sat , empty for two years , and erm they 've been trying to find a buyer .
12 They 've been trying to find alternative berths for incoming cargoes and negotiating the release of ships waiting to sail on the night time .
13 Despite the fact that they had been trying to kill each other , against the creature they were united .
14 Rookies were all the same in the beginning , eager to please and desperate to be judged favourably by their superiors , but within the space of a few months they had become as bitter and cynical as the seasoned policemen they had been trying to impress .
15 They had been trying to maintain a steady pace , between hopping and running , and it had come hard .
16 For months they had been trying with divets and tackle to hoist the appropriate two-ton stone upright and into its hole .
17 After three weeks of intense work and numerous rejected ideas the creative team of copywriter Liz Whiston and art director Dave Shelton felt they had been trying to solve one of humanity 's great challenges .
18 Those who understood this might leave a swatch of fabric lying around so that Laura could pick it up and believe she had discovered it herself , even if they had been trying to persuade her to use it for months .
19 Even if they had been trying all the years between .
20 Radio of Russia on Feb. 16 said that Russian enterprises had a powerful incentive to acquire roubles , and that because of a lack of roubles , they were being forced to put goods on the market which they had been trying to hold back .
21 They had been trying to contact her for several days .
22 Their bodies were contorted and you could see they had been trying to protect their faces with their hands . ’
23 MIT members were shown , in detail , the market which they had been trying for years to service .
24 They have been trying to design a new force structure that would both live within the expected budget cuts and be capable of responding effectively to all imaginable crises .
25 In other words , they have been trying to scratch themselves on the sandy bottom and get stranded by accident .
26 In addition to normal responsibilities , which include making new investments , approaching new potential customers and keeping existing customers happy , Mr Queen says that they have been trying to educate the professional community to recognise when a company is going to need more working capital .
27 It is for this reason that most doctors will not generally accept that couples have a fertility problem until they have been trying to conceive for at the very least a year .
28 ‘ It looks as though they have been trying to get rid of me here for three years .
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