All along I've been trying to save you from getting into society another way.
I don't seem to place her, although I've been trying to remember all the guests.
Why, this is a bout they've been trying to pull off for the last two months.
He's been trying to buy this team; but he hasn't bid up high enough yet.
I've been trying to earn an honest living practicing law down at home and this is the first chance I've had to come up and see what the late lamented legislature left of the proud old Hoosier State.
Leah told me that you were here, of course, when I waked up, but I forgot it so completely that I've been trying to ring you up on the telephone.
You know, and I know, that that is the way he's been tryingto help you.
While I've been working here with the test tubes and the microscope I've been trying to reconstruct what must have happened, trying to trace out every action of Stella Lamar as nearly as it is possible for us to do so.
He's been tryingto hold up the company for fifteen hundred a week, which would double his salary-- perhaps you've heard that?
Seems like most of the things he's been trying on us he couldn't make go.
I've been trying to talk to you for days, and I couldn't.
It's what I been trying to tell you and Curly," says Bonnie Bell now, holding to her pa's coat with one hand and patting him hard on the shoulder with the other.
I've been trying to get you since three o'clock this afternoon," said Fosdick.
I've been trying to explain to your sister--though I'm afraid I don't make myself clear.
You've been trying to inveigle me into it for nearly a year now.
Taylor," he said gravely, "for three years the Government has been trying to land the big blackmailer in the Customs.
You knew all the time he was back in his room and you've been trying to fool me--you're stuck on him.
I've been trying to make a girl catch me for three years now and she won't.
Why would I be going home when I've been trying to break away for two years?
That's exactly what I've been trying to impress on you all these years," I declared.
All through the evening Tom had been trying to account for her presence at the meeting, until Austen had begged him to keep his speculations to himself.
I'd been trying not to hear your voice; now I never want to hear any other.
I'd been trying to forget how you looked; now I want to remember you always.
What sort of figure should I cut if I told him I'd been trying to find out if he'd made a proper choice?
Ever since I came back from the front,' he told her, 'I've been trying to get this war into perspective.
I've been trying to think the whole way up from Melton.
He telephoned to me from the House half an hour ago; he's been trying to get hold of me all day, but this is the first opportunity I've had.
I've been trying for an hour to get that rascally milkman on the telephone--there's not a drop of cream in the house.
And then resumed in his odd way just where they had left off talking: "I've been trying to figure out why you wanted me to miss the train.
If you'd been looking I might've been trying to get hold of it yet.
I take it for granted that since then you've been trying to fill in that gap in memory.
The poor guy couldn't have done us more harm if he'd been trying.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "been trying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
