Example sentences of "i [vb base] been [v-ing] [verb] to " in BNC.
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1 | To you it 's just home , but to me it 's the place I 've been trying to get to . |
2 | ‘ 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 . |
3 | yes , Casey there 's something I 've been wanting to say to you . |
4 | ‘ I 've been wanting to speak to you about that business the other night ’ |
5 | ‘ I 've been wanting to speak to you for some time , Jekyll , ’ said the lawyer , ‘ about your will . ’ |
6 | 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 . |
7 | ‘ I 've been meaning to talk to you about that . ’ |
8 | ‘ I 've been meaning to speak to you , Rachaela , ’ she said , ‘ about the way you keep being late . |
9 | I 've been meaning to write to The Post letter page about it for several years . |
10 | 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 ! |
11 | ‘ I have been meaning to speak to you about my going to London , ’ she said . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Dear Rosemary , I know you must receive hundreds of letters like mine but I have been meaning to write to you now for ages . |