Example sentences of "'ve [be] [verb] do " in BNC.

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1 All we 've been asked to do is secure this ship until help arrives ; which should n't be longer than this time tomorrow .
2 Erm for one world week on the twenty fourth of October and we 've been asked to do a stall there .
3 If you delegate it , then the authority need to get these forms in , get to actually doing what they 've been asked to do .
4 ‘ I 've been wanting to do it for years . ’
5 ‘ So much , cara , I 've been wanting to do nothing else all week , and my self-control has been nearly crippling me … ’
6 ‘ Something I 've been wanting to do for quite some time .
7 ‘ If you knew how much I 've been wanting to do this . ’
8 ‘ The thing I 've been trying to do all along is to create a very large-sounding rock record — orchestrated , in a way — combining that with my songwriting style , which is pretty eclectic , I suppose .
9 What I 've been trying to do on the meantime is to improve the whole budgeting system .
10 They 're some of the things that you can think out and er work out you know , that 's , that 's what we 've been trying to do .
11 So you see what I 've been , what I 've been trying to do in this lecture is to explain the , the modern biological basis which I think makes Freud 's findings intelligent .
12 I 'm sure that 's that 's gon na work against what you 've been trying to do since you got here .
13 What I want to do today , what I 've been trying to do today is to spend that time looking at certain aspects of the way the business works , the way you work .
14 I mean biologists , when they 're talking to one another , are , by and large , talking about Darwin and that 's what I 've been trying to do .
15 Yeah , I do n't know why they do that , I was gon na ask that , why they chop those off , look like they 've been vandalized do n't they ?
16 It 's because of that interest , and those letters , that I 've been sent to do a special report . ’
17 Now that 's the way that we 've been shown to do
18 ‘ It shows we 're making an impact , ’ reckons Craig , ‘ because we 've been approached to do the music for a surfing movie , using ‘ Sun Do n't Shine ’ , ‘ Commercial Rain ’ and ‘ Weakness ’ .
19 But you would n't have done it quite you would have thought about whether you did it , whereas the moment you 've been forced to do it because of the cuts that have been forced upon us by the Poll Tax capping .
20 Mummy said we were going to spend next Christmas there — it 's a thing they 've been meaning to do for ages . ’
21 I 've been meaning to do it , he does n't seem to have the will , and it 's more my job , I think .
22 No that 's er that 's something else we 've been meaning to do .
23 All the jobs you 've been meaning to do
24 ‘ Now , I 'll get you that coffee — only before that there 's something I 've been waiting to do all day . ’
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