Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] be [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Astra has already been talking to officials of the Commons about its planned service , based on the American C-Span cable network , which performs a similar function . |
| 2 | She has n't been coming to school , Mrs Day . |
| 3 | I mean how can you justify talking to her about that when the efficiency is improved since she has n't been talking to people ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Erm , and has recently been going to dress-making classes , but she nothing to anybody at work . |
| 6 | We 'd all been listening to things like reggae and Spanish music , and when we got together to rehearse , we 'd be playing all kinds of crazy stuff before we settled down to get serious . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ What worries me most , ’ she said , ‘ is what all this rushing around is doing to Zachary . |
| 8 | She had apparently been travelling to Godstowe and must therefore have been expected . |
| 9 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've just been speaking to Drewer , ’ rapped Naylor . |
| 11 | Then that particular Saturday , Leith 's outgoing if slightly irresponsible brother had come to tell her excitedly , ‘ I 've just been chatting to Rosemary Green ! ’ |
| 12 | I 've just been talking to Captain Montgomery . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've just been talking to Mrs Flaherty , ’ she said . |
| 14 | Catching her arm , he said quietly , ‘ I 've just been talking to Donal . ’ |
| 15 | Capitalism had always been baffling to Ceauşescu , now his involvement with it was a curse . |
| 16 | Maeve agreed that the old nun had probably been referring to Lady Eleanor 's hands . |
| 17 | It was n't that she had n't been talking to Mandy , it was just that she had let her displeasure over that application be felt for an entire week now . |
| 18 | ‘ I have just been speaking to Officer Hassan . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The children have both been coming to ballet since they were three and they have loved it . ’ |
| 21 | " I know they have n't been coming to class regularly . |