Example sentences of "[conj] i 've be [v-ing] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE has been told to turn up at his restaurant at Venice Beach , California at 2.30 pm to tell me his version of the story of his life , then Dudley Moore more or less dudleys into his restaurant at Venice Beach , California and joins me at a corner table where I 've been waiting to hear his story . |
| 2 | Because the kind of earthly and human illustrations that I 've been trying to use this morning are all bound to fall short . |
| 3 | With an instant return to sweet reasonableness , Andrée said , ‘ Admitted that I 've been trying to seduce you , does n't that only go to show how desperate I am to get my way ? |
| 4 | As I 've started writing to ya now , I might as well ask you some stuff that I 've been dying to ask for ages . |
| 5 | There does n't seem to be much of it about , not even many DFs , so I 've been trying to stock up lately . |
| 6 | It was a bitter summary of their unhappy affair , but compunction ensued , because it was n't Luke 's fault that he could n't love her , even if he had no right to despise her , so she added neutrally , ‘ There 's a Chinese tea-house or tea-garden — I 'm not sure what it 's really called — not far from here that intrigues me , and I 've been wanting to go and find out what it 's all about ever since I first passed it . |
| 7 | And I 've been wanting to ask if they got a record o' that at Pulham St Mary . |
| 8 | Cos I 've been trying to organise it . |
| 9 | Cos I 've been meaning to get myself some . |
| 10 | Well it 's not a yes yes for the garden because I would n't have room for it but it 's certainly a yes yes in my shelter delt because the birds love the berries and it really encourages them to use that shelter delt but it is n't as , as easy to grow , it 's , one tends to think of the nature plant as a tough plant but I 've been trying to establish about thirty of these in the shelter delt and I 've found they object to any form of total weedkiller round the root , so all the , the weedkillers that you would use for the first couple of years maybe to , to keep the , the weeds from growing round the stems , they tend to get chlorotic and die . |
| 11 | Julia smiled at them and Carrie said suddenly , ‘ I did n't want to upset you , Julie , but I 've been dying to tell you . |
| 12 | Sorry for the long letter , but I 've been itching to write this for a long time . |
| 13 | went to put the , he , he went away again , but I , I did mention to the police , who I might say were very helpful were ninety per cent of burglars do n't get cleared up so of course it was n't important and I never expected it would be , but I did mention to the police at the time that I would like an future occasion because I 've been trying to use guns in America er to have a gun in the house but they er , but they would n't erm agree to it at all |
| 14 | Because I 've been trying to swop between that one and that one . |
| 15 | Erm , I 've been in discussion , because I 've been trying to rescue their electricity bill situation , which is again , something which has blown up on them . |