Example sentences of "'ve be [verb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been looking forward to meeting you too , ’ she answered , which was true . |
| 2 | At long last you 've got a spare half hour to play that adventure you 've been looking forward to ! |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been looking forward to this , ’ Stephen announced with a kind of childish glee . |
| 4 | I 've been looking forward to seeing you so much . |
| 5 | I 've been looking forward to this visit for a long time for that reason . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you know all the way here I 've been looking forward to your particular brand of polite conversation ? |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been looking forward to seeing you , ’ he said , coming up close so I could smell him . |
| 8 | ‘ Dr Blake — Lindsey — I 've been looking forward to meeting you . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been looking forward to meeting you , ’ she smiled . |
| 10 | You 've been looking forward to this wedding for days now . |
| 11 | He 's away back to Biggar now , but he 'll be back up on Friday as we 've been invited round to Ingalo 's for tea — Hazel 's going as well , so it should be a good laugh . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've been invited out to dinner this evening , ’ he said tersely . |
| 13 | I 've been invited down to Plymouth for a party at the weekend . ’ |
| 14 | I 've been thinking back to Ladymont , to people I lameducked there . |
| 15 | I 've been called in to the Museum during the night or at weekends for a variety of reasons . |
| 16 | I find it difficult to understand how they are going to carry on experimental work at other depots that are n't really equipped to carry out experimental work , and so for that reason , I mean , there 's a great deal of concern that these cuts are n't rather more cosmetic that they 've been made out to be . |
| 17 | I feel as if I 've been whisked away to another world , ’ she breathed , her face radiant . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been tuned in to the local station , ’ he said shortly . |
| 19 | Er it 's really is to follow on from this debate that we 're having about what should happen if a shortfall occurs , erm and we 've heard , I 've been listening carefully to your views about er the way in which you agree with the Good Committee that a shortfall is an employers debt , the employers responsibility to meet that shortfall and we 've been talking about that shortfall should be met , but the Good Committee also concluded that er pensioners should not be regarded as preferential creditors erm and you also agreed with that . |
| 20 | Incidentally , it does n't include the disposal of Smithmark We 've also er we 've also gone in for other cost reduction exercises , for instance at er Dalton with a review of warehousing and distribution er , we should save about a million pounds in a full year and we 've been ramming home to our chief executives the need for annual payroll reviews to be geared to the profitability of the company rather than t rather than to the rate of inflation er , or even , er in , even the market place . |
| 21 | Yes , by the way I 'm gon na be able to see Max , I 'll tell you that now because I 've been dragged off to another conference , I 'm actually going down to the , to the rehabilitation workers ' phones |
| 22 | Mind you the best ones would be by er those ones they 've been selling off to the highest offer . |
| 23 | ‘ Is that why you 've been going over to France such a lot ? ’ |
| 24 | It means you 've — you 've been coming on to me … ’ |
| 25 | in the hockey world the City of Oxford are on the march … in the semi-final of the association cup they 've been drawn away to Oxton of Cheshire |
| 26 | But other news locally : Aylesbury United , they 've been drawn away to Dagenham in the fourth qualifying round of the F A Cup , and that match will be , and I 've checked this out , Dagenham play at the Victoria Road , and that 'll be on Saturday the twenty seventh of October . |
| 27 | And how many people can be sure of things about themselves when they 've been brought up to please other people ? |
| 28 | Interrupt — difficult to do if you 've been brought up to be polite , but necessary to learn . |
| 29 | ‘ This is a battle for me but I 've been brought up to battle . |
| 30 | Following last night 's 2–0 defeat by the USA he said : ‘ This is a battle for me , but I 've been brought up to battle . |