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 . ’ |