Example sentences of "we 've be trying " in BNC.

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1 It 's like a dream in which we 've been trying to get through to people and we 've represented this by seeing ourselves locked inside our homes , desperately trying to get out .
2 Now the enemy 's all deflated and dead , I feel like all my friends and all the artists were like little pygmies and we 've been trying to kill this elephant all these years with little arrows , and finally tonight …
3 But all the years we 've been trying .
4 We 've been trying to wake him for half an hour , ’ said Fritz .
5 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 .
6 well we 've been trying to think how we could get the best out of Colin for the past four bloody years .
7 So if I may , I would like to negotiate to one or the other if if you will agree er to that , to try and get us a dance group , we 've been trying to get a dance group for years
8 They 're some of the things that you can think out and er work out you know , that 's , that 's what we 've been trying to do .
9 I do know that we 've been trying to get er recognition for about fifteen years with that company but can we pursue that issue ?
10 As you 're aware , we 've been trying to or organize this sort of open forum , engineering in the house in September
11 You ca n't , take your point which we 've been trying to tackle at national account level
12 Do you realize we 've been trying to get ready for twenty minutes ?
13 We 've been trying to .
14 Oh we 've been trying to get him to sleep through .
15 that my sin was laid on you , now what happens is that our relationship with God is restored , that , that chasm , that , that gulf that we 've been trying to get across with our good works with our church attendance with all these other things , suddenly we are , our land with a bridge across it , there 's no longer a barrier there , there 's no longer a great gulf there , Jesus Christ has bridged it , that broken relationship has restored and from this relationship the basis of that relationship we have the power to become as God made us .
16 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 .
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