Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [verb] been [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For almost half an hour I 've been trying to get them out , but it 's impossible . ’ |
| 2 | And then , you see , it halted where it did because there were some petals and fragments from the blackthorn I had been handling fallen into the spine there , shaken out of my sleeve or my hair when I closed the book . |
| 3 | A lot of folks drop their guard when they think they 're dealing with a man of simple mind — and if behind that kind of pose you hide the steely determination I 've been trying to drum into you , son , you 'll do just fine . " |
| 4 | Following the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council I have been asked to draw your attention to the following : |
| 5 | Following the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council I have been asked to write to your about the hedges on your property on Trough Road opposite Wyresdale Crescent and also on Gubberford Lane between the river bridge and the first bend . |
| 6 | I had a question I had been intending to ask him . |
| 7 | To you it 's just home , but to me it 's the place I 've been trying to get to . |
| 8 | ‘ Look Aurora , this proves the point I 've been trying to make all along . |
| 9 | " She 's my pet , my pet , the only pet I 've been allowed to have since I was a tiny kiddie . " |
| 10 | Then I found out that Jim was making all the original pedals as well , so I decided to get rid of all the stuff I 'd been trying to make all these sounds with and just use the original things . |
| 11 | ‘ It is my wish that my Clerk Mr. Prince who is well acquainted with my business and affairs and in whom I place great confidence should continue in the management and conduct of the same … to sell and dispose or exchange all or any of my works on Ornithology and specimens of Natural History in the manner I have been accustom to do … to continue or complete as far as practicable the publication of any work or works of mine on Ornithology and to do all other [ illegible ] by issuing a Prospectus advertising the same … to purchase all necessary materials articles and things fit and proper for the carrying on of my business … to borrow for a temporary period any money from my Bankers , Messrs Drummond and Company … and if there by any surplus available for the purpose to invest the same in purchase of Stock … to pay the rent and taxes … make up , adjust and settle all and every or any Accounts … [ and generally ] to do perform and execute all and every or any other acts deeds matters and things whatsoever are necessary to be done in all other my concerns engagements affairs and business whatsoever during my absence from England as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes as I myself might or could do if I were personally present and did the same . ’ |
| 12 | so he was dead annoyed with it , all week I 've been struggling to get him to bed |
| 13 | The small government flat I had been expecting turned out instead to be a large if simple village haveli , occupied by Mr Postman 's extended family — his three brothers , their children and Mr Postman 's old mother . |
| 14 | ‘ At the risk of sounding self-pitying — a bad habit I 've been trying to break — nobody ever gives me anything . |
| 15 | As this area is in Cabus Parish I have been asked to contact you to see if your council can do anything about this matter . |
| 16 | The man I 've been trying to reach ever since I first started this whole thing . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Because I learned by accident INCUBUS was trying to take over his company — and exactly the same thing had happened with another industrialist I 'd been asked to draw up a profile for . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Because you 're a landlord , I suppose , ’ I said , holding back the next thing I had been going to say and then deciding he might not mind . |
| 20 | The convergence I have been exploring does not suggest that we should collapse materialism and psychoanalysis into each other . |
| 21 | She had therefore sent advance copies to Prince Albert , the Earl of Shaftesbury and Charles Kingsley to whom she referred to ‘ that awful book I have been forced to write ’ . |
| 22 | For there , hard at work dubbing the soundtrack on to a new series of Minder at Anvil Studios , was the Lotus Elan-hero-turned-De Lorean cohort I 'd been longing to unmask . |
| 23 | This cost-effective nature of a scholarship was a matter I had been asked to justify when I first asked my new assistant chief constable about the potential of postgraduate research as an ‘ observing participator ’ . |
| 24 | In trying to paint an accurate word picture of the post-Plowden primary school I have been forced to turn to some old press cuttings . |
| 25 | I do n't think this means that there is no saying what he is getting at in these works ; opinions can and will be formed , and for the extent of the present discussion I have been attempting to express one . |
| 26 | But after years of the DHSS , it really was the first time I 'd been spoken to like a human being . |
| 27 | Dear Guitarist I have been meaning to write to your fine mag for a long time , but whenever I was about to put pen to paper someone else got there before me with the same topic . |
| 28 | Such expressions would fittingly accompany many a sermon and when stricken with a sore throat I have been tempted to invite the Blessed Dawg to assume her two-legged stance within the pulpit , in my stead . |