Example sentences of "'ve be [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What makes you imagine you 've been asked to cope with it alone ? ’ he demanded coldly . |
| 2 | So they 're not sheltered , they 're purely residential , units of residential accommodation , so you 've been asked to look at a at an application for , for a completely new residential block on the same grounds as was occupied by forty seven sheltered units . |
| 3 | I really wanted to go to ‘ Ps + Gs ’ at Easter for a change , plus I 've been asked to help with communion in the evening . |
| 4 | I 've been asked to write about it and I said I 'd give it a think . ’ |
| 5 | I 've been invited to go to Bhutan so I might go there . |
| 6 | And she 's saying , what the heck are doing outside the cinema , he goes I 've been invited to come with you you lot . |
| 7 | ‘ Something I 've been wanting to do for quite some time . |
| 8 | yes , Casey there 's something I 've been wanting to say to you . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been wanting to speak to you about that business the other night ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been wanting to speak to you for some time , Jekyll , ’ said the lawyer , ‘ about your will . ’ |
| 11 | You ca n't , take your point which we 've been trying to tackle at national account level |
| 12 | I 've been trying to liaise with the Save our Forests which is and forestry privatization and technically I 'm on the committee . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been trying to go for the last half-hour , ’ he whispered , ‘ but you wo n't let go of my neck ! ’ |
| 14 | What I 've been trying to do on the meantime is to improve the whole budgeting system . |
| 15 | So you see what I 've been , what I 've been trying to do in this lecture is to explain the , the modern biological basis which I think makes Freud 's findings intelligent . |
| 16 | I 've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour , and I ca n't . |
| 17 | They 've been trying to see about that lot where the boys ' grammar school is int they ? |
| 18 | Sorry , Benny ; I 've been trying to communicate with — with whatever it is that 's up there . |
| 19 | She said , ‘ I 've been trying to think about Wayne , but instead I 've been thinking about myself . |
| 20 | I , I , do not understand Chairman that reading this motion , I 've been trying to think about it , how on earth this is going to be monitored . |
| 21 | You 've been trying to over-compensate for Eddie 's death for far too long . ’ |
| 22 | I 've been trying to write about him for weeks . ’ |
| 23 | Because I 've been trying to swop between that one and that one . |
| 24 | The danger 's coming closer all the time — whatever it is — and besides , the Threarah is n't going to like it if he finds out that you 've been trying to get at rabbits in the Owsla , Bigwig . |
| 25 | To you it 's just home , but to me it 's the place I 've been trying to get to . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | A lot of folks drop their guard when they think they 're dealing with a man of simple mind — and if behind that kind of pose you hide the steely determination I 've been trying to drum into you , son , you 'll do just fine . " |
| 28 | They 've been trying to come to terms with what 's happened ever since . |
| 29 | The major problem is likely to be that enterprising ‘ try-outers ’ will hack the code they 've been given to play with and render the program fully usable if companies merely decrement a counter and destroy its function once it reaches zero as you suggest . |
| 30 | You 've been sitting listening to things for a while , how are things Nick ? |