Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think one of them has been trying to talk to me . ’ |
| 2 | And thirdly , I have certain highly specialized information about this planet , worrying enough in itself , that somebody has been trying to prise from my mind . |
| 3 | so as he 'd been trying to get through it was always engaged . |
| 4 | Flustered by his presence , thrown off balance by the feel of his hard body against her own , she suddenly clamped her mouth shut , horrified to realise she 'd almost told him she 'd been rushing to get to him . |
| 5 | Though , since her denial was hardly any excuse for the way she had been trying to bolt to her room , she felt honour-bound to give him just as straightforward an explanation . |
| 6 | Covering her impatience , she told him that some keys similar to MacQuillan 's desk keys had been found and Ruby had been trying to divine from them the identity of their owner . |
| 7 | He said that there had been a postal strike and that he had been trying to write to me and as the mail was getting through , I should get the letters . |
| 8 | Census data , for instance , made clear that an increasing proportion of the more numerous national groups had been choosing to live in their ‘ own ’ union republic , with the greatest increases in Central Asia , the Baltic and Armenia ( Russians , by contrast , had become more dispersed throughout the USSR ) . |
| 9 | She resolutely pushed away the memory of Dr Neil and the life which she had been going to share with him . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , yes , ’ she replied , and because she had almost added that she had been going to travel with her sister — which would surely then have led to her boring him out of his skull with all of the rest of it , ‘ All alone , ’ she added with feigned cheerfulness . |
| 11 | yes , Casey there 's something I 've been wanting to say to you . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been wanting to speak to you about that business the other night ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been wanting to speak to you for some time , Jekyll , ’ said the lawyer , ‘ about your will . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I 've been trying to write about him for weeks . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . " |
| 17 | I 've been meaning to talk to you , but you 've ducked out of the building so fast after finishing your show these last two days , ’ she told him when he stopped to greet her and ask if she had heard the brilliant spontaneous earthquake joke he 'd cracked on air that morning . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been meaning to talk to you about that . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been meaning to speak to you , Rachaela , ’ she said , ‘ about the way you keep being late . |
| 20 | ‘ I have been meaning to speak to you about my going to London , ’ she said . |
| 21 | Dear Guitarist I have been meaning to write to your fine mag for a long time , but whenever I was about to put pen to paper someone else got there before me with the same topic . |
| 22 | Dear Rosemary , I know you must receive hundreds of letters like mine but I have been meaning to write to you now for ages . |
| 23 | LaBudde believes that drift-nets are the prime suspects for the disappearance of dozens of young humpback whales in the North Pacific , who have been failing to return to their Hawaiian breeding grounds in recent years . |
| 24 | ‘ He 's been trying to speak to you to warn you . |