Example sentences of "'ve [be] [v-ing] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been wanting to do it for years . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ So much , cara , I 've been wanting to do nothing else all week , and my self-control has been nearly crippling me … ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Something I 've been wanting to do for quite some time . |
| 4 | ‘ If you knew how much I 've been wanting to do this . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | What I 've been trying to do on the meantime is to improve the whole budgeting system . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I 'm sure that 's that 's gon na work against what you 've been trying to do since you got here . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Mummy said we were going to spend next Christmas there — it 's a thing they 've been meaning to do for ages . ’ |
| 13 | I 've been meaning to do it , he does n't seem to have the will , and it 's more my job , I think . |
| 14 | No that 's er that 's something else we 've been meaning to do . |
| 15 | All the jobs you 've been meaning to do |
| 16 | ‘ Now , I 'll get you that coffee — only before that there 's something I 've been waiting to do all day . ’ |