Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos that 's why I did n't get any when I got my last prescription because I 'd been trying to just sort of even take one |
| 2 | and Peter came in the morning , I never thought anything I 'd been listening to the radio , I heard there was a big accident on the road , a car accident |
| 3 | I told him I 'd been talking to Richie . |
| 4 | A lot of them related to the data I 'd been passing but also he 'd want to know who I 'd been talking to . |
| 5 | ‘ She was complaining at not being able to get through because my number was engaged and I said I 'd been talking to you . |
| 6 | After I 'd been talking to him about leaving . |
| 7 | I 'd been talking to someone about the effects of music , cos there 's a couple of court cases going on . |
| 8 | ‘ No , you came here wanting to know what I 'd been saying to Mr Kronweiser today . ’ |
| 9 | For about a year , since the summer before last , in fact , I had been writing to her and she to me and , because of the distance and something else I have n't been able to put my finger on ( maybe a need for excitement ) , the letters had become more and more sentimental , more and more loving , more and more like proper love letters . |
| 10 | It dealt with something about which I had been writing to Social Security Ministers for about six months — abuse of the benefit-in-kind regulations , whereby highly paid people were paying themselves in gilt unit trusts . |
| 11 | Living at Betty 's house , I had been listening to it speak for long enough . |
| 12 | I had been listening to a lot of songs in very different styles , quite consciously , to try to get a little more inspiration for when we went into the studio . |
| 13 | Six years later she remembers , vividly , a match against Fiona Anderson in the Scottish Championship at North Berwick which was won by Gillian Stewart : " I had been listening to " The Mikado " before I set out and I was humming it in my head all the way round . |
| 14 | Er , my experience is slightly different when erm when I had been trying to sort of recover , I did n't , I did n't feel as if I 've get any help from professionals that I approached . |
| 15 | I stayed in the bottom class , but noticed the girl that I had been talking to was in another class . |
| 16 | The problem came to a crisis after I had been going to evening classes ( Workers ' Educational Association ) , the subject being psychology . |
| 17 | The dentist I had been going to for years no longer took NHS patients . |
| 18 | And in the last couple of years I 've been listening to music that 's going in the same direction , like The Beach Boys , for instance , but trying to keep it within a guitar format . |
| 19 | As for The Roches , we 've been big , big fans of theirs since way back — I 've been listening to them since I was about 13 . |
| 20 | I 've been listening to that a lot . |
| 21 | I 've been listening to you ringing the bell . " |
| 22 | That huge estate in Scotland — ; I 've been listening to Mamma and Mrs Talbot with half an ear , you never know what you might miss — and you do n't hunt . ’ |
| 23 | I 've been listening to your programme all morning so . |
| 24 | I 've been listening to it for a while . |
| 25 | " I 've been proving to Graham I really did have some wine and it smashed . " |
| 26 | Well then about a month later he said he rung June and said I 've been speaking to Geoff he said and th they wan na hi er hire a car for a week . |
| 27 | Yes , well she was all , so I 've been speaking to her for weeks when she did n't |
| 28 | I 've been trying to be a footballer , and that is n't me . |
| 29 | I 've got a trainee manager at the moment and I 've been trying to he 's just making such a balls up it 's easier not to . |
| 30 | I 've been trying to . |