Example sentences of "[adv] been [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | You may have to say , Well I 've just been talking to the estate agent about this and er you know on a number occasions he 's sent people along to you er may be you did n't realize that was happening . |
| 32 | Just been talking to Tracey . |
| 33 | Well no she does n't , I 've just been talking to her . |
| 34 | You see I 've got with me in the studio here Stan Bowes , who 's the head of marketing for the Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board , and Stan has just been explaining to us that there is this campaign to encourage people to take holidays in this country . |
| 35 | Now you 've just been describing to us Mr about er your leisure activities etcetera and it was sort of confined to the etcetera . |
| 36 | ‘ The situation has been eased slightly for my parents since a community nurse has been visiting Jennifer , but I must admit I 'd rapidly been coming to the conclusion that something else would be needed very soon . |
| 37 | Capitalism had always been baffling to Ceauşescu , now his involvement with it was a curse . |
| 38 | In addition to such major discoveries , many parts of which have not yet been published , other sources have gradually been coming to light or , after long suppression , are being circulated and studied . |
| 39 | Have you ever been speaking to someone , perhaps an attractive member of the opposite sex , when , without thinking , you 've looked down at their mouth ? |
| 40 | The children have both been coming to ballet since they were three and they have loved it . ’ |
| 41 | I have also been listening to this wonderful young singer from Dresden , Olaf Bär . |
| 42 | ‘ I 've also been listening to a lot of Glenn Branca recently . |
| 43 | Maeve agreed that the old nun had probably been referring to Lady Eleanor 's hands . |
| 44 | Conservative leaders have traditionally been accommodating to the major interest and sought compromises . |
| 45 | She had n't really been listening to the talk last night , but there had been — what ? |
| 46 | If we had simply been moving to another site we would just roll everything up and take it with us . |
| 47 | In those few minutes she 'd simply been reacting to the mood he 'd created so skilfully . |
| 48 | This has indeed been happening to the USA , and much of the capital funds moving to the USA have come from Japan . |
| 49 | But I 've never been talking to you before . |
| 50 | And of course Gramps had never left his wife — because he had never been going to , because he had n't been the father ; but that was obviously the story Marie O'Donnell had put about — the story her family believed . |
| 51 | We 've also er recently been talking to erm a lecturer of the University who is doing a project , a research project , and would like to er offer his services to us in in that er in that project , so we at the early stages but nonetheless I think it is er very important that we do er test the market place and find out what both think of us , so that we with a prime and only objective of improving a service |
| 52 | As many progressive ( but in reality reactionary ) politicians have recently been finding to their cost , greater freedom of opportunity , so far from furthering equality , has only stimulated emulation and the appetite for symbols of success . |
| 53 | Erm , and has recently been going to dress-making classes , but she nothing to anybody at work . |
| 54 | Erm I have n't actually been listening to the programme I was asleep I 've got to be honest . |
| 55 | Section 2.2 explores different definitions of deindustrialization , looking at each of them in the context of data on what has actually been happening to manufacturing in this country over recent decades . |