Example sentences of "been [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gill Hill , who has been seeing to the social side of things , organised an outing to the Crystal Palace Reunion for members from Hatfield , Hemel Hempstead , St. Albans and Harpenden , and another to Sadlers Wells Theatre for the ballet enthusiasts . |
| 2 | Club sailors in the one-design classes have long been proving to one another just who 's best . |
| 3 | " I 've been proving to Graham I really did have some wine and it smashed . " |
| 4 | In those few minutes she 'd simply been reacting to the mood he 'd created so skilfully . |
| 5 | AEA employees have been reacting to the recent announcement about our forthcoming restructuring into three Divisions . |
| 6 | It has been suggesting to UNTAC , the UN authority in Cambodia , whose mandate requires it to stay until the elected assembly writes and enacts a constitution , that the election was rigged in the places ( like the capital , Phnom Penh ) where the CPP did worst . |
| 7 | But perhaps Governor Clinton 's most remarkable achievement will have been bringing to an end the Reagan-Bush years . |
| 8 | Dirk has been farming to biodynamic and organic principles at Busses Farm since 1978 and holds the Soil Association Symbol on the milk from his dairy herd and yoghurt . |
| 9 | But after that Pete had sworn that he 'd touch nothing stronger than tapwater for the rest of the evening , and so far he 'd been sticking to it . |
| 10 | How many of these songs could she have been singing to her daddy ? |
| 11 | B : I sha n't have been goin' to . |
| 12 | Martin and Roberts ( 1984 , pp. 11–12 ) found that older women , many of whom would not have been contributing to the state pension scheme in their own right , tended to leave the labour market in their mid-fifties . |
| 13 | Some had in fact been praying to be ‘ rescued ’ ! |
| 14 | In Imperial Gothic he should have been praying to the God-Emperor for help . |
| 15 | All over the country , polytechnics and colleges have been applying to the Privy Council for approval of their new titles . |
| 16 | Visible ideas are signs and indications of tangible ideas , and have a constant and universal connection with them which was ‘ learnt at our first entrance into the world ; and ever since , almost every moment of our lives , it has been occurring to our thoughts , and fastening and striking deeper on our minds . ’ |
| 17 | Ask the Holy Spirit to give you the strength and resolve to follow God 's will in whatever he has been revealing to you . |
| 18 | Something very interesting and very clever had been happening to the Direct Line Insurance tournament at Beckenham lately . |
| 19 | As a producer , MacCabe is naturally enough dismayed by this pro-directorial bias : ‘ If you look at what 's been happening to British cinema over the last 10 years or so , then it 's clear that it has tended to be production-led — names like Working Title , Palace Films or Zenith are as important as those of any individual director . |
| 20 | At one point he inserts the comment , ‘ you will want cause and effect ’ , as a prelude to a ludicrously far-fetched explanation of what has been happening to a character in one of the text 's interstices ( Pynchon 1975a : 663 ) . |
| 21 | I had kept all the abuse that had been happening to me very much to myself — it seemed to me that I must have been very bad . |
| 22 | The big question was : Who is this girl — and what has been happening to her ? |
| 23 | The big question was : Who is this girl — and what has been happening to her ? |
| 24 | What 's been happening to you ? |
| 25 | This has indeed been happening to the USA , and much of the capital funds moving to the USA have come from Japan . |
| 26 | I 'm gon na start by going back to that graph we looked at first thing this morning which is trying to explain what had been happening to the pattern of tourism , both visitors to this country and visitors moving away from this country in the period nineteen seventy eight to nineteen eighty two . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | A lot of personal things had been happening to me during that year . |
| 29 | When I go past , I wonder what has been happening to her in the intervening years , and that 's very odd . ’ |
| 30 | Now , while this had been happening to the fisherman , his poor dumb wife was left alone in the lonely hut . |