Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been asked to bring this in like this . |
| 2 | ‘ If you knew how much I 've been wanting to do this . ’ |
| 3 | And that 's what you 've been wanting to say all evening , Merrill thought : a nice , discreet ‘ keep off ’ instruction . |
| 4 | I 've been wanting to say this for a long time . ’ |
| 5 | I 've been trying to vacuum this through all morning I have n't even done it |
| 6 | Because the kind of earthly and human illustrations that I 've been trying to use this morning are all bound to fall short . |
| 7 | ‘ The thing I 've been trying to do all along is to create a very large-sounding rock record — orchestrated , in a way — combining that with my songwriting style , which is pretty eclectic , I suppose . |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | I 've been trying to talk some sense into her . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't you think I 've been trying to believe that ? ’ |
| 11 | For the past three months I 've been trying to buy some SIMMS for my Mesh 386SX . |
| 12 | I 've been trying to write all this afternoon |
| 13 | If we are in full flow , and a word escapes us , resorting to silence is undesirable — a complete and utter silence is unacceptable , and if used would surely worry the listener : I 've been trying to find that — . |
| 14 | Voiced hesitation is a partial solution : I 've been trying to find that — erm . |
| 15 | It is unusual to have two erm 's in immediate succession — I 've been trying to find that — erm — erm — and to have three is very strange : I 've been trying to find that — erm — erm — erm — . |
| 16 | It is unusual to have two erm 's in immediate succession — I 've been trying to find that — erm — erm — and to have three is very strange : I 've been trying to find that — erm — erm — erm — . |
| 17 | I 've been trying to ring all evening ! ’ |
| 18 | I 've been trying to get some indoor fireworks and I ca n't get any , I thought it 'll be just some . |
| 19 | so I 've been advised to stop that , hence it 's on the agenda . |
| 20 | I 've been meaning to offload those on |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | You 've been dying to speak all night . |
| 23 | I 've been told to change these procedures to . |
| 24 | ‘ Now , I 'll get you that coffee — only before that there 's something I 've been waiting to do all day . ’ |
| 25 | The trouble is , we 've been having to spend more money on bribes lately . |
| 26 | Sorry for the long letter , but I 've been itching to write this for a long time . |
| 27 | LEEDS have been warned to beware another upset — against the Sheffield Wednesday team they thrashed 6-1 on the way to becoming champions last season . |
| 28 | Study at such world levels can now be achieved first because enough process data have been collected to allow some degree of national and world pattern to be discerned ; secondly because international cooperation has been initiated specifically to remedy the past deficiencies of data coverage ; and thirdly because the opportunities of remote sensing are now beginning to provide further clues to the world picture . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Erm , but it 's impressive that he now feels we should be allowed to spend more money to create jobs , because of course a lot of us have been trying to point that out for years to the governments which stupidly cap authorities so they ca n't actually carry out the infrastructure improvements that are needed to enable the economy and the society to function properly . |