Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Erm , and has recently been going to dress-making classes , but she nothing to anybody at work . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | She had apparently been travelling to Godstowe and must therefore have been expected . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've just been speaking to Drewer , ’ rapped Naylor . |
| 7 | 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 ! ’ |
| 8 | I 've just been talking to Captain Montgomery . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've just been talking to Mrs Flaherty , ’ she said . |
| 10 | Catching her arm , he said quietly , ‘ I 've just been talking to Donal . ’ |
| 11 | Capitalism had always been baffling to Ceauşescu , now his involvement with it was a curse . |
| 12 | Maeve agreed that the old nun had probably been referring to Lady Eleanor 's hands . |
| 13 | ‘ I have just been speaking to Officer Hassan . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The children have both been coming to ballet since they were three and they have loved it . ’ |