Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company , which made its name with the Microdata Reality version of Pick , running on machines built in-house , has been moving over to software and services , which now account for 58% of total business , and on the hardware side , the company now buys in its machines . |
| 2 | All morning it has been calm but now we are threatened by a storm that has been brewing out to the west . |
| 3 | Officially , the Government has been expecting up to one million appeals . |
| 4 | Officially , the Government has been expecting up to one million appeals . |
| 5 | ‘ Everyone , including the British Government , has been waking up to this horrific plight too late . |
| 6 | This , I suggest , is what has been happening up to now . ’ |
| 7 | I had n't had a lot of luck finding the man I wanted , but at least I 'd been getting up to date on my social exercises , like who was drinking with who , and in what bars . |
| 8 | What he 'd been leading up to all week ? |
| 9 | Yes that , I think that 's possibly true , er , I was talking to Cambridge there about oh fifteen , twenty minutes ago and they said it was raining with them , and then they 'd been talking over to somebody over in Coventry and it 's , it 's snowing there |
| 10 | Also there were the people who 'd been coming in to the shop when it was still Let It Rock . |
| 11 | Even if they 'd been sitting down to breakfast with a headless horseman . ’ |
| 12 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |
| 13 | A human being who suffers a fatal heart attack when out walking in a wood would not have been setting out to ‘ die alone ’ . |
| 14 | He could have been plummeting down to the centre of the earth , in a submarine nudging over the seabed or flying soundlessly through outer space . |
| 15 | He cut into her thoughts with a question about the ball and she repeated her earlier assurance that she 'd had a successful evening , adding that in all conscience she ought to have been driving back to London to work on some of the stories . |
| 16 | The only way this impinged on the message Macmillan had been taking up to the generals in the front-line was that they might now have to prepare even more urgently for military operations to reinforce allied policy . |
| 17 | Crimean Tatars had been drifting back to their former homeland since 1987 , and a June 1988 central government ruling confirmed their right to residency [ see p. 36036 ] . |
| 18 | On the other side of the House , Norman Tebbit and the rest of the rabid Right had been nodding along to Mr Kaufman . |
| 19 | She had been calling out to him , pleading , arms outstretched , ‘ Wait for me . |
| 20 | Seeing Anthea each day would be a constant reminder , and neither woman could deny that the masks of civility each had been holding up to the other for months were now trampled underfoot . |
| 21 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |
| 22 | The two of them had been at daggers drawn ever since 1183 , and in recent months , as incident followed incident , tension had been building up to a new peak . |
| 23 | The last time he had seen him the Trollslayer had been wandering off to booze with his fellow outcast Dwarfs . |
| 24 | Early on Monday evening Wickham tossed the papers he had been scanning on to the desk and stood up . |
| 25 | Then they had been sinking on to the bed and , between kisses and caresses , peeling the clothes hungrily from one another , until at last they lay naked , side by side . |
| 26 | She and Jake had been driving back to Lomond View after accompanying Kirsty back to school when Jake had swivelled round in his seat to inform her , |
| 27 | This was what it was all about , she realised hazily — this was what her whole life had been leading up to , this man , this place , this almost unbearably exquisite time out of time . |
| 28 | Topaz had dreaded the moment since she first realized what Timothy had been working up to . |
| 29 | His mum , Jacqueline , of Cardigan , said : ‘ When I bent down I could see that the metal mesh had been cutting in to his scalp . ’ |
| 30 | Somehow she managed to take a proper breath , not the little shallow gasps she had been giving up to now . |