Example sentences of "'ve be [v-ing] [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 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | " But , hell , they 've been navigating safely to Aru for centuries . " |