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

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1 ‘ You 've been trying to ease me out , Charles .
2 To you it 's just home , but to me it 's the place I 've been trying to get to .
3 I 've been trying to be a footballer , and that is n't me .
4 ‘ I 've been trying for forty years and the margin of error 's still about eighty per cent . ’
5 ‘ Do n't you think I 've been trying to believe that ? ’
6 ‘ I 've been trying like hell to do it , ’ said Daly .
7 ‘ For the last three bleedin' weeks , I 've been trying to forget it , ’ Parks complained .
8 For thirty years I 've been trying to give an affirmative reply to that question .
9 Ever since then I 've been trying to get the speed back . ’
10 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 .
11 Do n't you understand what I 've been trying to tell you ?
12 ‘ 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 .
13 Great , I 've been trying to get hold of you .
14 This includes women who 've been trying for a test tube baby , have a history of pelvic inflammatory disease or sexually transmitted diseases , have suffered previous ectopic pregnancy , or surgery on their tubes , and those who 've had infertility problems .
15 I 'm sorry if it 's brought back everything you 've been trying to forget .
16 ‘ 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 .
17 ‘ 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 .
18 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 .
19 ‘ Lucky devil , I 've been trying for eight years and still have n't cracked it yet . ’
20 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 .
21 ‘ They 've been trying all sorts of stuff , ’ said Angalo .
22 ‘ 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 . ’
23 ‘ I 've been trying to reach you . ’
24 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 …
25 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 .
26 ‘ I 've been trying to find a tactful way to drop him for ages . ’
27 There does n't seem to be much of it about , not even many DFs , so I 've been trying to stock up lately .
28 What I 've been trying to do on the meantime is to improve the whole budgeting system .
29 I 've been trying mail order .
30 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 .
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