Example sentences of "i have be [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel that it was actually so quick — not at all what I 'd been led to expect from antenatal classes — that I could n't savour the birth or get used to the idea . |
| 2 | I 'd been trying to go to sleep . |
| 3 | I 'd been trying to get into training since I was fourteen . |
| 4 | Had been appalled to discover , through the industry grapevine , that I 'd been allowed to continue with the assignment after taking such a beating from ben Issachar . |
| 5 | It was something I had been raised to believe in , so the idea of living with him , even temporarily , had an illicit feel to it . |
| 6 | Then , later , I believed that I had been born to die for someone . |
| 7 | Doubly foolproof in a way , since the 103/4 is , as I had been led to expect from someone in whose ears I have complete trust , one of the most ‘ out-of-thebox ’ loudspeakers that I have had the pleasure to use — one can be very quickly up and running with it and feel only the need to make relatively small adjustments to positioning and so on in due course as listening progresses ; such changes with this loudspeaker result in subtle rather than profound modifications to the sound . |
| 8 | After I had been kept waiting for a few moments in an ante-room , I was ushered into the main boardroom where Dr Barton and six colleagues were seated around a long , rectangular , polished table . |
| 9 | The latter I had been intending to read for years and , by happenstance , had come across a cheap edition in a book sale just days before setting out . |
| 10 | I had been trying to produce in Jimbo the necessary mental awareness that the real cure — the reopening of the nerve pathways — lay in the end with him . |
| 11 | And then , you see , it halted where it did because there were some petals and fragments from the blackthorn I had been handling fallen into the spine there , shaken out of my sleeve or my hair when I closed the book . |
| 12 | It was the first time that I had been picked to run in an individual event against the USA , and I was looking forward to it . |
| 13 | I had been planning to go to the Nurburgring for testing the day after the race , but I was told to return to the factory and stop the new car I was building . |
| 14 | For no good reason , that settled it , by which I mean that what conscience I had was put to sleep by sheer , raging curiosity . |
| 15 | What I 've been trying to do on the meantime is to improve the whole budgeting system . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I 've been trying to liaise with the Save our Forests which is and forestry privatization and technically I 'm on the committee . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been trying to go for the last half-hour , ’ he whispered , ‘ but you wo n't let go of my neck ! ’ |
| 19 | I 've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour , and I ca n't . |
| 20 | To you it 's just home , but to me it 's the place I 've been trying to get to . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | Because I 've been trying to swop between that one and that one . |
| 23 | She said , ‘ I 've been trying to think about Wayne , but instead I 've been thinking about myself . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Sorry , Benny ; I 've been trying to communicate with — with whatever it is that 's up there . |
| 26 | 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 . " |
| 27 | I 've been trying to write about him for weeks . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I 've been asked to write about it and I said I 'd give it a think . ’ |
| 30 | I 've been invited to go to Bhutan so I might go there . |