Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be [verb] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the kind of earthly and human illustrations that I 've been trying to use this morning are all bound to fall short . |
| 2 | I 've been trying to vacuum this through all morning I have n't even done it |
| 3 | I 've been asked to bring this in like this . |
| 4 | ‘ If you knew how much I 've been wanting to do this . ’ |
| 5 | I 've been wanting to say this for a long time . ’ |
| 6 | Sorry for the long letter , but I 've been itching to write this for a long time . |
| 7 | I 've been meaning to say this for a long time , ’ said Susan , with an assumption of severity which moved her sister to ribald mirth . |
| 8 | Joyce Cormie , Development Officer , Fife , Age Concern Scotland Having spent the last year doing a study on day care in Fife , I have been asked to do this presentation on the implications of day care for planners . |
| 9 | He bellowed through the letter box : ‘ My name 's Patrick Kelly and I have been asked to repossess this property . |
| 10 | She had been led to believe this was the case but a phone call from the office of Mr Ian Frost , regional director of Inntrepreneur , part of Grand Met , said the meeting would be in Tadcaster or Halifax . |
| 11 | A task she had to perform , a necessity ; an observer could have thought she had been ordered to do this , to sit on that step with her fingers pushing her flesh about over her face . |
| 12 | Alice then , all clean and brushed , and in a nice blouse with the small pink flowers and the neat round collar , walked out of the house and went next door , to No. 45 , as though she had been planning to do this all day . |
| 13 | Now the enemy 's all deflated and dead , I feel like all my friends and all the artists were like little pygmies and we 've been trying to kill this elephant all these years with little arrows , and finally tonight … |
| 14 | I think that what we 're really looking for is a stimulating , exciting involvement of parents , of students , of teachers , of everyone who has an interest in the success of a school , and I think for some years at Cardinal Newman we have been trying to create this open society , which gives access at all levels to all the children and to their parents , and we do n't want to close the society in any shape or form . |
| 15 | Although they had been told to counter this objection with the fact that this was a single instance or two of older machines and new machines could be serviced almost immediately , this did not altogether convince a potential customer and it was felt that many sales had been lost . |
| 16 | They have been helped to do this by the introduction of so-called ‘ call-off ’ contracts set up by Purchasing — which is part of AEA Estates — to enable them to place orders . |
| 17 | He claimed : ‘ It concerns us that they have been enticed to take this step . ’ |
| 18 | It has been written to influence this report and to inform a wider audience . |
| 19 | It has been decided to try this method out for the January meeting , posting out only to teachers not attending . |
| 20 | He had been hurrying to finish this latest copy before the meal ended , and seeing through the slit that his wife was heading out across the clearing with his two small sons to begin collecting the dishes , he put aside his pencil and hastily read over what he 'd written . |
| 21 | And he had been left to conduct this hearing on his own , secure that he would make the decision both Hotspur and she needed . |
| 22 | Although he had been told to do this on some goddamned boring management course , the sergeant did it instinctively . |