Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [to-vb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Minginish has been trying to keep me here , in the Rorim . |
| 2 | ‘ This situation has meant me not being able to get the sort of access to my daughter I want because the fact that the interdict is still in place has been used to prevent me from getting increased access . ’ |
| 3 | He said he 'd been wanting to ring me all day but did n't want to interrupt my work . |
| 4 | When Ken called by later , he told me that he 'd been commanded to show me the sights the following afternoon . |
| 5 | ‘ This was what Gran must have been trying to tell me , poor darling . |
| 6 | ‘ I believe he may have been trying to contact me . |
| 7 | On another occasion , this suspicion might have been calculated to cripple me with a sense of my own worthlessness . |
| 8 | But then again , if she had been , you would not have been coming to see me . |
| 9 | But do n't blame yourself — you could n't have been expected to warn me and risk your own job . |
| 10 | If Spunk had been hoping to rattle me by picking this place for a venue , then Spunk was out of luck . |
| 11 | But they adamantly refused to listen when I insisted that someone had been trying to kill me . |
| 12 | Also because Susan Hart had been trying to reach me through my office . |
| 13 | I suppose she was in the kitchen , perhaps avoiding me , and perhaps the boy had been instructed to entertain me . |
| 14 | ‘ He said he had been instructed to tell me that because Ayrton Senna would drive for nothing , I , the new world champion , had to accept a massive reduction in remuneration from the figure agreed in Hungary . |
| 15 | ( I had taken to climbing over the railings of the barracks each night , as the watchmen on the gate had been forbidden to let me in as I was known to be sleeping there . |
| 16 | ‘ He had been told to stop me winning at Ascot . |
| 17 | ‘ You 've been trying to ease me out , Charles . |
| 18 | ‘ Put your head and arm through , ’ he recommended , before adding , ‘ You 've been trying to avoid me . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Is that what you 've been told to tell me , or is it the truth ? ’ |
| 20 | Well they 've been very direct and they 've been having to make me think a lot about what I 'm doing . |
| 21 | I can recognise a set-up when I see one , and you , Mr Burns , have been trying to set me up . |
| 22 | After all , the press have been trying to marry me off for years . ’ |
| 23 | And can you do a Christmas card for so and so , because he 's been , he 's been delegated to help me with my machine |
| 24 | The final word on Tony Iommi 's custom-built JD guitar has to come from John Diggins himself : ‘ Apart from the fact that Tony 's been threatening to take me out for a drink ever since I 've known him , things have changed a lot , and now we do n't get the time to get together any more . |