Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] trying " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , the choice of construction projects for the research holds constant as many elements of the business environment as is feasibly possible , allowing a focus on the different managerial practices in the two countries , and the ways in which SGE is trying to combine them . |
| 2 | He would play us a popular classical piece , explaining what the compose was trying to get across to the listener . |
| 3 | The point 's that I think is trying to be made is that there are a lot of people here tonight who do wish to express an opinion and that opinion is not necessarily formulated in question form . |
| 4 | ‘ You 've been trying to ease me out , Charles . |
| 5 | To you it 's just home , but to me it 's the place I 've been trying to get to . |
| 6 | I 've been trying to be a footballer , and that is n't me . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been trying for forty years and the margin of error 's still about eighty per cent . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't you think I 've been trying to believe that ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been trying like hell to do it , ’ said Daly . |
| 10 | ‘ For the last three bleedin' weeks , I 've been trying to forget it , ’ Parks complained . |
| 11 | For thirty years I 've been trying to give an affirmative reply to that question . |
| 12 | Ever since then I 've been trying to get the speed back . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Do n't you understand what I 've been trying to tell you ? |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | Great , I 've been trying to get hold of you . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I 'm sorry if it 's brought back everything you 've been trying to forget . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ Lucky devil , I 've been trying for eight years and still have n't cracked it yet . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ They 've been trying all sorts of stuff , ’ said Angalo . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been trying to reach you . ’ |
| 27 | 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 … |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been trying to find a tactful way to drop him for ages . ’ |
| 30 | There does n't seem to be much of it about , not even many DFs , so I 've been trying to stock up lately . |