Example sentences of "'ve [been] [verb] [verb] [adj] " 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 | They 've been trying to find alternative berths for incoming cargoes and negotiating the release of ships waiting to sail on the night time . |
| 18 | I 've been trying to find loose stones again . |
| 19 | I 've been trying to ring all evening ! ’ |
| 20 | Do you realize we 've been trying to get ready for twenty minutes ? |
| 21 | I 've been trying to get some indoor fireworks and I ca n't get any , I thought it 'll be just some . |
| 22 | We 've been made to feel ashamed of our actions , of the past . |
| 23 | erm There always has been the situation since Derek Roberts retired , and in fact his post was put in the pollution section , where there was only one E H O , the agreement then that there would be a swap straight E H O for technician swap , but food had traditionally , as long as I 've been involved have three E H Os . |
| 24 | NALGO 's members , who are mostly women , are bitter that they 've been pushed to take industrial action . |
| 25 | so I 've been advised to stop that , hence it 's on the agenda . |
| 26 | I 've been meaning to offload those on |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I 've been dying to see Five Guys Named Moe — I hear it 's really brilliant — and also one called Blood Brothers . |
| 29 | You 've been dying to speak all night . |
| 30 | I 've been told to change these procedures to . |