Example sentences of "[noun] have be [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The head told me that Mrs Singh had been coming to school regularly to express concern about Balbinder 's lack of progress . |
| 2 | David Lyell had been returning to Britain from Carolina as a member of the crew of a merchant vessel when his ship was intercepted by a cruiser and he was impressed for service in an undermanned warship . |
| 3 | Kevin Kline 's been chatting to John Miller about working with a great actor — himself ! |
| 4 | What he does n't seem to know is that Albie had been talking to Carmichael . |
| 5 | Generations of gypsies have been travelling to Stow each year . |
| 6 | Jane 's been talking to Paul about it and he 's being very non committal because of this Y T S T M review |
| 7 | Frank Strandli has been talking to Howard Wilkinson about his future at Elland Road . |
| 8 | Mrs Grandison followed her apprehensively into one of those ubiquitous tea-shops which cater for the multitudes of office workers and others who want a cheap meal at any time of the day , and which , excellent though they are , can hardly be compared with the restaurants Mrs Grandison had been hoping to lunch in . |
| 9 | ACET 's local representative , Ana Ureche , reported that she was ‘ greatly encouraged ’ that course participants had been lecturing to schools and other groups and had passed much of the literature obtained form the course to other colleagues for their use . |
| 10 | Well in the last hour reporter Claire Lafferty has been speaking to Martin Frears ' father in Cheltenham . |
| 11 | Puzzling — since it seemed that Yorke had been listening to information he 'd specifically asked for . |
| 12 | It is now accepted that UDR members and RUC officers have been leaking to loyalists . |
| 13 | ADVENTURE-seeking Britons have been flocking to Israel for years to sample communal living on a kibbutz . |
| 14 | Mr Perelman has been talking to Shearson and its parent , American Express , about buying a 20 per cent shareholding in the broking business . |
| 15 | Following on from last month , It seems that GeoWorks has been talking to Casio and Tandy about putting its graphical front-end on hand-held computers , slated to compete with the so-far non-existent Apple Newton . |
| 16 | The Home Secretary has been talking to Peter Murphy about the siege and the efforts to end it . |
| 17 | Coleman had been lecturing to officers of the army medical staff at Woolwich , and Dr Rollo and the officers of the medical staff signed a memorial , suggesting Coleman 's appointment as veterinary surgeon to the Ordnance . |
| 18 | Until now the allied air forces have been going to enemy positions ; once the ground forces move in , the enemy air force will have to come up to fight . |
| 19 | Anyway , in a showbiz double whammy the boys with the buttocks have been talking to Bryan Burnett . |
| 20 | According to last week 's gossip , Sparc licencees Fujitsu Ltd and LSI Logic have been talking to DEC about Alpha ( UX No 385 ) . |
| 21 | This time the Americans have been talking to negotiators as often as three times a day , sitting with one side and then another to explore positions on such controversial issues as the disposition of authority over West Bank land . |
| 22 | NORMA Major has been listening to Jarvis 's Frayn , the latest cassette recording from actor Martin Jarvis , on her car cassette . |
| 23 | Stanley has been going to Scourie for more than twenty years and knows every single blade of grass and stone , by name ; he can take you to a loch and point out precisely where you will catch fish and where you wo n't , to the inch , and Stanley is never wrong . |
| 24 | IBM Corp 's dismantling of the Armonk politburo to follow Chairman Mao 's ‘ Let 100 Flowers Bloom ’ dictum has really let the genie out of the bottle , and Infoworld has been talking to consultants that say the company is planning to enter the tents of the enemy by putting a version of the DB2 database up under Windows NT . |
| 25 | IBM Corp 's dismantling of the Armonk politburo to follow Chairman Mao 's ‘ Let 100 Flowers Bloom ’ dictum has really let the genie out of the bottle , and Infoworld has been talking to consultants that say the company is planning to enter the tents of the enemy by putting a version of the DB2 database up under Windows NT . |
| 26 | The Thing had been listening to radio and television and had found the place the going-straight-up Shuttles went from . |
| 27 | Milly said cos we 'd been talking about this all day and they , the children had been saying to John you gon na have a picture of yourself in Where 's the Wally thing ? |
| 28 | Meanwhile at Oakhill Primary School in Dumbleton where Ben Garvey went to school , parents and pupils have been coming to terms with his death . |
| 29 | Whitlock had been going to Le Chantilly restaurant on East 57th Street since he had first arrived in New York in 1980 . |
| 30 | It is recognised that a lot of people who might once have bought homes in the West Country have been flocking to France in recent years to cash in on the predicted property boom . |