Example sentences of "i have be [v-ing] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been trying to go to sleep . |
| 2 | I had been planning to go to the Nurburgring for testing the day after the race , but I was told to return to the factory and stop the new car I was building . |
| 3 | To you it 's just home , but to me it 's the place I 've been trying to get to . |
| 4 | ‘ Even so , I 've been trying to get to this level for seven or eight years , even though I knew that people liked what I did . |
| 5 | yes , Casey there 's something I 've been wanting to say to you . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been wanting to speak to you about that business the other night ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been wanting to speak to you for some time , Jekyll , ’ said the lawyer , ‘ about your will . ’ |
| 8 | I 've been meaning to talk to you , but you 've ducked out of the building so fast after finishing your show these last two days , ’ she told him when he stopped to greet her and ask if she had heard the brilliant spontaneous earthquake joke he 'd cracked on air that morning . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been meaning to talk to you about that . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been meaning to speak to you , Rachaela , ’ she said , ‘ about the way you keep being late . |
| 11 | I 've been meaning to write to The Post letter page about it for several years . |
| 12 | The trouble is , I 've been longing to go to the loo for the past hour , and I do n't know how long he 's going to be ! |
| 13 | ‘ I have been meaning to speak to you about my going to London , ’ she said . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Dear Rosemary , I know you must receive hundreds of letters like mine but I have been meaning to write to you now for ages . |