Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] [to-vb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think one of them has been trying to talk to me . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd been trying to go to sleep . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I suppose I must have been intending to explain to Mr Farraday how I would thus be able to explore an option which might prove the ideal solution to our present small problems here in this house . |
| 5 | Bermúdez , however , was a vocal opponent of any political accommodation with the FSLN and was known to have been planning to visit to one of the special resettlement regions for former contras [ for details of unrest among former contras in November 1990 see pp. 37849-50 ] . |
| 6 | He had been trying to talk to Sir Alexander Cadogan , the Cabinet 's linkman with the secret services , but had been told that he was busy . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The blackleg buses disappeared off the streets and other vehicles which had been beginning to return to the roads . |
| 10 | Alice 's mother-in-law thought she was going to have an afternoon 's shopping , it was what she liked doing herself , and she believed , without any evidence for this , that Alice had been longing to get to the shops on her own . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He had been planning to talk to scientists there about their fears for the future when the project ends . |
| 13 | yes , Casey there 's something I 've been wanting to say to you . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been wanting to speak to you about that business the other night ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been wanting to speak to you for some time , Jekyll , ’ said the lawyer , ‘ about your will . ’ |
| 16 | To you it 's just home , but to me it 's the place I 've been trying to get to . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | They 've been trying to come to terms with what 's happened ever since . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been meaning to talk to you about that . ’ |
| 21 | I 've been meaning to write to The Post letter page about it for several years . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been meaning to speak to you , Rachaela , ’ she said , ‘ about the way you keep being late . |
| 23 | The trouble is , I 've been longing to go to the loo for the past hour , and I do n't know how long he 's going to be ! |
| 24 | I will not yield to the temptation to reflect on the problems that face this university and the Centre for Continuing Education as part of it , but I think that it 's fair to say that in the future we will be hard put to maintain the volume and variety of the contribution we have been trying to make to adult education in the community . |
| 25 | Police have been wanting to speak to Mr Ashworth since 35-year-old Denise 's body was found in her flat above the Lion Tavern , Moorfields , on Thursday . |
| 26 | ‘ I have been meaning to speak to you about my going to London , ’ she said . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Dear Rosemary , I know you must receive hundreds of letters like mine but I have been meaning to write to you now for ages . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ He 's been trying to speak to you to warn you . |