Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] have been trying [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I 've been trying for ages but there just has n't been any cos |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 5 | But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed . |