Example sentences of "[vb base] be [v-ing] [to-vb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | yes , Casey there 's something I 've been wanting to say to you . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been wanting to speak to you about that business the other night ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been wanting to speak to you for some time , Jekyll , ’ said the lawyer , ‘ about your will . ’ |
| 4 | To you it 's just home , but to me it 's the place I 've been trying to get to . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | They 've been trying to come to terms with what 's happened ever since . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been meaning to talk to you about that . ’ |
| 9 | I 've been meaning to write to The Post letter page about it for several years . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been meaning to speak to you , Rachaela , ’ she said , ‘ about the way you keep being late . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | I will not yield to the temptation to reflect on the problems that face this university and the Centre for Continuing Education as part of it , but I think that it 's fair to say that in the future we will be hard put to maintain the volume and variety of the contribution we have been trying to make to adult education in the community . |
| 13 | Police have been wanting to speak to Mr Ashworth since 35-year-old Denise 's body was found in her flat above the Lion Tavern , Moorfields , on Thursday . |
| 14 | ‘ I have been meaning to speak to you about my going to London , ’ she said . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Dear Rosemary , I know you must receive hundreds of letters like mine but I have been meaning to write to you now for ages . |
| 17 | LaBudde believes that drift-nets are the prime suspects for the disappearance of dozens of young humpback whales in the North Pacific , who have been failing to return to their Hawaiian breeding grounds in recent years . |