Example sentences of "[vb past] been [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 'd been talking to someone about the effects of music , cos there 's a couple of court cases going on . |
| 32 | We 'd been planning to completely redecorate our home from top to bottom , and at first I just could n't face doing it alone . |
| 33 | We 'd been moaning to Malcolm about wanting to play some gigs . |
| 34 | Now you suspected she 'd been lying to you for thirteen years . |
| 35 | And she 'd been coming to our house , Oh about fie or six years , and she said one day to Mary , that 's my wife , says you know , Not strange name , there 's not many of them about . |
| 36 | ‘ No , you came here wanting to know what I 'd been saying to Mr Kronweiser today . ’ |
| 37 | And he was glad to have an excuse to put off telling her the news that he 'd been keeping to himself . |
| 38 | Jesus had been , with his disciples and he had spent the whole day in teaching and preaching to the people , he 'd been explaining to them what the kingdom of God was like , he 'd been telling them some of the parables that perhaps we 're familiar with , he 'd been telling them about the parable of the sewer and the seed , the man who went out and he sewed his seed and different things went wrong birds came and picked up the stuff that fell by the wayside , some fell on stony ground and it could n't put down any roots , some fell amongst thorns and they were quickly choked , but some did fall in good prepared soil and that grew . |
| 39 | The report focused on a United States pharmaceutical company , Velsicol Chemical Corporation , which had been exporting to the Third World large quantities of chlordane and heptachlor , " two of the most highly toxic persistent and bio-accumulative insecticides ever made " according to the report . |
| 40 | Topknot , who had been muttering to himself , stood up suddenly and spoke very sharply at great length , with a lot of pointing to the ground and to the sky . |
| 41 | Iain Logan had been listening to him as though fascinated by the stress of experience which had lengthened Cameron 's face and closed his black brows over his eyes . |
| 42 | For some time Leonard had been listening to the music of the day , which he shared with his mother and sister . |
| 43 | ‘ Sure I would , ’ and her brother turned on the Sunday game he had been listening to when Moran entered the yard . |
| 44 | George Underwood : ‘ It was all instigated by David really , because he had been listening to the World Service on the radio and suddenly got the bug to get involved in American Football , and he wrote to the American Embassy asking for more information . |
| 45 | Maginnis had been listening to almost two hours of complaints about the police when a woman announced that she would clap her hands if she heard of an RUC constable 's death . |
| 46 | Living at Betty 's house , I had been listening to it speak for long enough . |
| 47 | Thiercelin , for instance , had no idea of the fact that they had been listening to the work of the greatest composer of the day . |
| 48 | I had been listening to a lot of songs in very different styles , quite consciously , to try to get a little more inspiration for when we went into the studio . |
| 49 | So he has got the scrum right , just as if he had been listening to Graham Price all along . |
| 50 | ‘ I told you not to bother , ’ Ellen said disparagingly as she climbed the main companionway , and I guessed that she had been listening to my conversation with Billingsley by standing just under the saloon skylight which was propped open . |
| 51 | He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station . |
| 52 | The Thing had been listening to radio and television and had found the place the going-straight-up Shuttles went from . |
| 53 | What he had not bargained for was the fact that these two Gardai had been listening to well-articulated feminist rhetoric all afternoon and were still reeling from the effects . |
| 54 | Maisie Dougall had been listening to her friends going on and she thought it was about time she made a contribution . |
| 55 | Puzzling — since it seemed that Yorke had been listening to information he 'd specifically asked for . |
| 56 | One is left wondering whether it was a dream or one really had been listening to a man whose clothes and surroundings were obviously of little importance but who knew more Latin and Greek than one ever had , could quote the classics and poetry , would have one lost in the depths of philosophy , someone who was probably in a Gaelic world of his own and was translating into English for the benefit of his listener although the learning had largely been gathered in that language . |
| 57 | I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics . |
| 58 | ‘ He 's not your servant , miss , ’ said Zillah , who had been listening to the conversation . |
| 59 | ‘ It 's funny how one associates places with irrelevant things , ’ said Penelope , who had been listening to Sophia 's probings with a kind of fascinated horror . |
| 60 | Obviously he had been listening to the battle . |