Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [verb] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , later , I believed that I had been born to die for someone . |
| 2 | After I had been kept waiting for a few moments in an ante-room , I was ushered into the main boardroom where Dr Barton and six colleagues were seated around a long , rectangular , polished table . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been trying to go for the last half-hour , ’ he whispered , ‘ but you wo n't let go of my neck ! ’ |
| 5 | I 've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour , and I ca n't . |
| 6 | ‘ Something I 've been wanting to do for quite some time . |
| 7 | Fashanu said : ‘ It 's a trapped sciatic nerve and I 've been told to rest for about three weeks . |
| 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 | Do n't ask me Matt , I 've been sitting talking for many long days |
| 10 | By way of example , Figure 7 shows a system that I have been helping to develop for some ten years now ( Smith and Rothman , 1980 ) . |
| 11 | She claims she has been forced to wait for him to call her from phone boxes . |
| 12 | She 'd been taught to submit for her country , so why not for herself . |
| 13 | You 've been trying to over-compensate for Eddie 's death for far too long . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She had no fire in her bedroom , where she had been sitting waiting for his call , and staring at the dying mistletoe . |
| 16 | It may just be the book you have been trying to find for years ! |
| 17 | If you have been told to aim for a very precise figure , or have been following conventional height-to-weight charts , then you are almost definitely trying for an unrealistic weight . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She 's been going to move for months . " |
| 20 | we 've been told to prepare for frost tonight |
| 21 | ‘ We 've been waiting to move for a long time , and we need the money to build the new house . ’ |
| 22 | Although they were perfectly competent people and good at their jobs , they were never going to become part of the new culture which we have been trying to design for the Storehouse group . |
| 23 | He and his friends would have seen that if they 'd been allowed to talk for a bit . |
| 24 | In his ward at the Waterloo they 'd been allowed to smoke for an hour a day . |
| 25 | Mummy said we were going to spend next Christmas there — it 's a thing they 've been meaning to do for ages . ’ |
| 26 | Powerhouse walked out after complaining that they had been kept waiting for 40 minutes for the court and Components Bureau claimed the points by default and then appealed unsuccessfully against the Scottish Association 's decision to rearrange the fixture . |
| 27 | Here Richard I 's envoys announced that the king would not stand — they had been ordered to vote for the Count Palatine Henry ( whose support Richard wanted in his struggle against the French king ) but he still had not returned . |
| 28 | If their bodies had not been quite crushed to death by the labours they had been forced to perform for their Egyptian taskmasters , then surely their spirits had been . |
| 29 | Lalande wrote of him in 1763 : ‘ Sisson has been several times in prison for failing to pay his workmen [ of whom Jesse Ramsden , q.v. , was one ] ; he starts many things and finishes nothing : he takes his instruments to the pawnbroker , where they have been seen selling for a tenth of their value . |
| 30 | From the ‘ mini ’ , weighing as little as an amoeba or only one hundred-millionth of a kilogram ( unc kg ) to the ‘ supermassive ’ with a mass one thousand million times that of the Sun , they have been invoked to account for a wide range of cosmic phenomena . |