Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he 'd been wanting to ring me all day but did n't want to interrupt my work . |
| 2 | Well they 've been very direct and they 've been having to make me think a lot about what I 'm doing . |
| 3 | But what we 've just been saying makes me ask if even that is going too far . |
| 4 | If he had n't been coming to visit me , it would never have happened . ’ |
| 5 | But then again , if she had been , you would not have been coming to see me . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If Spunk had been hoping to rattle me by picking this place for a venue , then Spunk was out of luck . |
| 8 | Also because Susan Hart had been trying to reach me through my office . |
| 9 | ‘ You 've been trying to ease me out , Charles . |
| 10 | I can recognise a set-up when I see one , and you , Mr Burns , have been trying to set me up . |
| 11 | But they adamantly refused to listen when I insisted that someone had been trying to kill me . |
| 12 | ‘ This was what Gran must have been trying to tell me , poor darling . |
| 13 | After all , the press have been trying to marry me off for years . ’ |
| 14 | Minginish has been trying to keep me here , in the Rorim . |
| 15 | ‘ I believe he may have been trying to contact me . |
| 16 | ‘ Put your head and arm through , ’ he recommended , before adding , ‘ You 've been trying to avoid me . ’ |