Example sentences of "'ve [been] [v-ing] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that 's what you 've been wanting to say all evening , Merrill thought : a nice , discreet ‘ keep off ’ instruction . |
| 2 | Because the kind of earthly and human illustrations that I 've been trying to use this morning are all bound to fall short . |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | I 've been trying to talk some sense into her . ’ |
| 5 | For the past three months I 've been trying to buy some SIMMS for my Mesh 386SX . |
| 6 | They 've been trying to find alternative berths for incoming cargoes and negotiating the release of ships waiting to sail on the night time . |
| 7 | I 've been trying to find loose stones again . |
| 8 | I 've been trying to ring all evening ! ’ |
| 9 | I 've been dying to see Five Guys Named Moe — I hear it 's really brilliant — and also one called Blood Brothers . |
| 10 | You 've been dying to speak all night . |
| 11 | ‘ Now , I 'll get you that coffee — only before that there 's something I 've been waiting to do all day . ’ |
| 12 | The trouble is , we 've been having to spend more money on bribes lately . |