Example sentences of "what [pron] 've been [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Hope that you 'll finally understand what I 've been trying to let you know over the past few days without frightening you away by putting it into words . |
| 2 | Then , with the massive illogic he was sometimes capable of , Leo said in a quieter voice : ‘ That 's what I 've been trying to say . |
| 3 | What I 've been trying to do on the meantime is to improve the whole budgeting system . |
| 4 | So you see what I 've been , what I 've been trying to do in this lecture is to explain the , the modern biological basis which I think makes Freud 's findings intelligent . |
| 5 | What I want to do today , what I 've been trying to do today is to spend that time looking at certain aspects of the way the business works , the way you work . |
| 6 | I mean biologists , when they 're talking to one another , are , by and large , talking about Darwin and that 's what I 've been trying to do . |
| 7 | you know what I 've been trying to get hold of a couple of one of these you know the phones , the phones that Donald 's got |
| 8 | Yes , this is what I 've been trying to avoid because I do n't want the bother of advertising and interviewing somebody else . |
| 9 | Erm , so this is what I 've been trying to avoid , I must be honest about it . |
| 10 | Do n't you understand what I 've been trying to tell you ? |
| 11 | ‘ That 's what I 've been trying to tell you , ’ Myra said . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's exactly what I 've been trying to tell you . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Yeah , that 's what I 've been doing cutting down gradual . |
| 15 | It 's what I 've been told to say . ’ |
| 16 | I 'm sure that 's that 's gon na work against what you 've been trying to do since you got here . |
| 17 | And that 's what you 've been wanting to say all evening , Merrill thought : a nice , discreet ‘ keep off ’ instruction . |
| 18 | ‘ Is that what you 've been told to tell me , or is it the truth ? ’ |
| 19 | They 're some of the things that you can think out and er work out you know , that 's , that 's what we 've been trying to do . |
| 20 | If you delegate it , then the authority need to get these forms in , get to actually doing what they 've been asked to do . |
| 21 | What they 've been told has led to the establishment of a major police investigation , assisted by three full time social workers , going back over 20 years . |