Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] [to-vb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter I had been intending to read for years and , by happenstance , had come across a cheap edition in a book sale just days before setting out . |
| 2 | They looked at each other , Jean-Paul focusing his eyes with difficulty , and Edouard saw the coarsening in his brother which he had been trying to ignore for days . |
| 3 | Robert recognized faces he had been trying to avoid for weeks . |
| 4 | One of the pink slips was a Returning-Your-Call message from a recently-elected female politician she had been trying to contact for days . |
| 5 | But BitC was an outfit with drive , enthusiasm , and a determination to make the sort of changes in society that Charles had been trying to make for years . |
| 6 | You 've been trying to over-compensate for Eddie 's death for far too long . ’ |
| 7 | Mummy said we were going to spend next Christmas there — it 's a thing they 've been meaning to do for ages . ’ |
| 8 | As I 've started writing to ya now , I might as well ask you some stuff that I 've been dying to ask for ages . |
| 9 | It may just be the book you have been trying to find for years ! |
| 10 | Many health authorities have been refusing to pay for treatment , arguing that divers should take out decompression insurance . |
| 11 | After a couple of days of complete rest you can do all the things that you have been meaning to do for ages — jobs around the house ; shopping for clothes ; meeting friends for lunch ; having day trips out to places of interest ; doing the garden ; sunbathing ; fruit-picking at the local pick-your-own farm and filling up your freezer ; writing a book you have always meant to write or painting ; seeing all the shows that you are too tired to see during a working week ; and so on . |
| 12 | She 's been going to move for months . " |