Examples of 'had been trying' in a sentence
Meaning of "had been trying"
Had been trying: This phrase indicates past continuous effort or attempt towards achieving a goal or completing a task
How to use "had been trying" in a sentence
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had been trying
We had been trying for a very long time.
Jeeves told me you had been trying to get me.
I had been trying to figure it out for a while.
An ancient woman had been trying to milk a goat.
Had been trying to get clean for a while.
It was something that he had been trying to avoid considering.
I had been trying to reach you to convey this.
He made us do something some of us had been trying to do anyway.
Rahul had been trying to write for ages.
But the last weeks had been trying.
I had been trying to quit heroin for a while.
Clearly my subconscious brain had been trying to tell me something.
I had been trying to lose weight in the past.
A succession of kings had been trying to solve this problem.
I had been trying to sell my car for months.
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For a week she had been trying to tell him.
Had been trying to get custody of his little girl.
My ex and i had been trying for a while.
Had been trying to negotiate for days.
I hated him and had been trying to seek revenge.
We had been trying to negotiate a voluntary surrender to avoid a confrontation.
Since then she had been trying to locate him.
I had been trying unsuccessfully to sell my condo for months.
I was suddenly able to understand what he had been trying to tell me.
Tom had been trying to call for hours.
She knew what the dragon had been trying to do.
Ty had been trying to give him time alone.
Since then my uncle had been trying to save our souls.
I had been trying to get away from.
And this mangled man had been trying to keep me safe.
He had been trying to get them to stop.
We normally asked him if he had been trying to break up beside me.
I had been trying to solve that case for years.
For several hours we had been trying to retrace his steps.
He had been trying to help them when he got hit.
To think that she had been trying to snub a girl.
He had been trying to fancy them causeless.
For six years the couple had been trying to have a baby.
Drops had been trying to open up his own club.
My cat can smell it and had been trying to get it open.
He had been trying to clear the chimney.
A successful doctor and his wife who had been trying to adopt.
Government had been trying to figure it out for years.
His eyes turned to the young girl he had been trying to rescue.
Your wife had been trying to make ends meet.
He spat the last word out like a fishbone that had been trying to choke him.
The government had been trying to acquire the house.
George Soros was an investor in a company that Tyumen had been trying to acquire.
The owners had been trying to sell it for a while.
It then became apparent what Balmain had been trying to achieve.
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Then we knew we had the wrong guy
We had so much fun up on the mountain today
Examples of using Trying
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I think we are trying to recapture something that we never did
Coolness was about not trying to look cool
Trying to find a job will be even harder
