Example sentences of "'ve be [verb] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been invited to go to Bhutan so I might go there . |
| 2 | yes , Casey there 's something I 've been wanting to say to you . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been wanting to speak to you about that business the other night ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been wanting to speak to you for some time , Jekyll , ’ said the lawyer , ‘ about your will . ’ |
| 5 | To you it 's just home , but to me it 's the place I 've been trying to get to . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | They 've been trying to come to terms with what 's happened ever since . |
| 8 | You 've been sitting listening to things for a while , how are things Nick ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been meaning to talk to you about that . ’ |
| 11 | I 've been meaning to write to The Post letter page about it for several years . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been meaning to speak to you , Rachaela , ’ she said , ‘ about the way you keep being late . |
| 13 | Nogai 's fighting with T'zin , and we 've been left to see to all the training and armouring , Targoutai and I. ’ |
| 14 | 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 ! |