Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unionist concerns were still as much with traditional areas of disagreement with the Liberals as with the War ; the UBC made the running with its concern to shield British industry from the war , much as it had previously been intended to protect it through tariffs , and Stanley Baldwin first made his name through its committees . |
| 2 | The film we 're going to see is Flatliners , and Denice tells us she 's been dying to see it for ages . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been wanting to do it for years . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been wanting to tell you for ages , but I could n't while you were so worried . |
| 5 | In fact , cinematographic analysis shows that the legs move in various sequences and attempts have been made to reduce them to variations on a single basic pattern ( Hughes , 1965 ; Wilson , 1966 ; see also Manton , 1972 ) . |
| 6 | He had been going to convert it into flats but backed out of the deal nearly as fast as the second prospective buyer , who was a surveyor himself . |
| 7 | I certainly have not met another Brother or Sister Brush that has been compelled to study it for weeks on end … |
| 8 | I 've been trying to find you for ages . ’ |
| 9 | I 've been trying to get you for ages but your line 's been engaged . ’ |
| 10 | I 'd been meaning to do it for days and I keep asking myself whether it was my fault her killer got in . ’ |
| 11 | Well as you waved your hand through the air I saw that ring there you see and I thought … ah I know what I 've been meaning to ask her for ages . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , I 've been meaning to tell you for ages . |
| 13 | Alarmed by her vehemence , Nicky replied , ‘ I 've been meaning to tell you for ages . |
| 14 | There was also a reluctance to attempt the transformation of the unions which would have been required to turn them into instruments of workers ' control , since this would clearly have introduced an element of responsibility which was foreign to the previous practice of trade unionism , and would have meant taking on board the awkward problem of reconciling , within a reconstructed union framework , the interests of workers in the given nationalised industry and the interests of working people as a whole , as regards the running of that industry . |