Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] to [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well in the last hour reporter Claire Lafferty has been speaking to Martin Frears ' father in Cheltenham . |
| 2 | The Home Secretary has been talking to Peter Murphy about the siege and the efforts to end it . |
| 3 | Rebecca Marston has been talking to Ken Schwarz , Director of Development at the company who 've published the figures on executives pay . |
| 4 | Frank Strandli has been talking to Howard Wilkinson about his future at Elland Road . |
| 5 | It was just as well Kenneth 's phone was n't engaged because , presumably , if he 'd been chatting to John Major about the situation in the Middle East , or talking to David Mellor about fun , poor old Johan would have been chucked out of the country . |
| 6 | Of course , he 'd been talking to Maria Luisa ; he had nothing to say to Steve . |
| 7 | ‘ No , you came here wanting to know what I 'd been saying to Mr Kronweiser today . ’ |
| 8 | In 1987 perhaps the Prime Minister 's pre-election visit to Moscow and her eve-of-election trip to the Venice summit of Western leaders were favourable to her re-election , but ‘ Harold Wilson always asserted that a bad set of trade figures a few days before polling cost him an election , while the effect of being centre-stage during the Iran hostages affair may have been devastating to Jimmy Carter 's fortunes ’ . |
| 9 | So he has got the scrum right , just as if he had been listening to Graham Price all along . |
| 10 | Al-Kadir , the timid and vacillating ruler of Valencia , capitulated without delay , restoring the tribute he had been paying to El Cid before his second banishment . |
| 11 | Whitlock had been going to Le Chantilly restaurant on East 57th Street since he had first arrived in New York in 1980 . |
| 12 | He had spent most of the morning frowning , except when he had been talking to Sir William Paice and others . |
| 13 | I 've been talking to Dr Wickram about this . |
| 14 | ‘ We 've been talking to Jane Pargeter . ’ |
| 15 | Well I did we we talked about this , you see Mary Anne , half way through the conversation er Neil went out of the room so that I could to Mary Ann and I said towards the end of my conversation , you know , Mary Ann you 're a very wise person , give me some advice I said , I told her about Neil not wanting no not doing well on the driving , although he can drive she said he does n't want to do it she said do n't hassle him so when he came downstairs I said I 've been talking to Mary Ann and she sends you her love and because , of course , you know , we 've got a grandson , you know she had a son , my |
| 16 | We 've been talking to Michael Medleycote from the British Tourist Authority , and one of the points I was making to him was with the recession and also the Gulf war people are very concerned , a ) there 's the cost of flying , but also they 're concerned of course about security . |
| 17 | ‘ You 've been talking to Lily Bates . ’ |
| 18 | Anyway , in a showbiz double whammy the boys with the buttocks have been talking to Bryan Burnett . |
| 19 | Kevin Kline 's been chatting to John Miller about working with a great actor — himself ! |
| 20 | Acting Detective Superintendent Mick Cox is leading the enquiry he 's been talking to Nigel Bell and telling him they 're convinced that the same girl has made all the phone calls . |