Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] have be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Lyell had been returning to Britain from Carolina as a member of the crew of a merchant vessel when his ship was intercepted by a cruiser and he was impressed for service in an undermanned warship . |
| 2 | Maisie Dougall had been listening to her friends going on and she thought it was about time she made a contribution . |
| 3 | In the pilot 's seat Bill has been listening to the conversation behind him . |
| 4 | Rebecca Marston has been talking to Ken Schwarz , Director of Development at the company who 've published the figures on executives pay . |
| 5 | DAVID WALMSLEY has been talking to Ulster 's faces of the future . |
| 6 | Frank Strandli has been talking to Howard Wilkinson about his future at Elland Road . |
| 7 | The Home Secretary has been talking to Peter Murphy about the siege and the efforts to end it . |
| 8 | NORMA Major has been listening to Jarvis 's Frayn , the latest cassette recording from actor Martin Jarvis , on her car cassette . |
| 9 | AEA employees have been reacting to the recent announcement about our forthcoming restructuring into three Divisions . |
| 10 | ACET 's local representative , Ana Ureche , reported that she was ‘ greatly encouraged ’ that course participants had been lecturing to schools and other groups and had passed much of the literature obtained form the course to other colleagues for their use . |
| 11 | Harold Lock has been coming to the pool since he was a child and says it would be a crime to close it down . |
| 12 | Lt Col Stewart has been reporting to the UN on some of the dreadful conditions suffered by refugees at the front-line town of Maglaj , where he said the situation was ‘ disgraceful . ’ |
| 13 | Since before the war animals have been going to the surgery for treatment . |
| 14 | Mr. Edmonds has been talking to himself for years … now everyone listens |
| 15 | Mr Perelman has been talking to Shearson and its parent , American Express , about buying a 20 per cent shareholding in the broking business . |
| 16 | According to last week 's gossip , Sparc licencees Fujitsu Ltd and LSI Logic have been talking to DEC about Alpha ( UX No 385 ) . |
| 17 | In the tropical oceans reef building corals have been responding to climatic changes for hundreds of years . |
| 18 | Dozens more East Germans have been going to the West German Embassy in Warsaw , where by yesterday evening more than 400 had collected . |
| 19 | The head told me that Mrs Singh had been coming to school regularly to express concern about Balbinder 's lack of progress . |
| 20 | Robin Powell has been talking to an Oxfordshire woman just elected , who takes a less optimistic view . |
| 21 | Labour 's deputy leader has been saying to the councils , ’ You may not get as much as you want , but you will certainly get more . ’ |
| 22 | Mrs Grandison followed her apprehensively into one of those ubiquitous tea-shops which cater for the multitudes of office workers and others who want a cheap meal at any time of the day , and which , excellent though they are , can hardly be compared with the restaurants Mrs Grandison had been hoping to lunch in . |
| 23 | Di Driver had been coming to my classes for some time and she knew I was appearing on the programme but I had no idea that she planned on paying me a visit ‘ on air ’ . |
| 24 | Mrs O had been chatting to a close friend for over an hour . |
| 25 | Loretta turned to find that Geoffrey Simmons had been listening to the conversation . |
| 26 | Kevin Kline 's been chatting to John Miller about working with a great actor — himself ! |
| 27 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA had been looking to 1992 as a year of recovery , but that was not quite the way things turned out , and after provisions , the French state-owned company saw even worse figures than in 1991 , losses equivalent to $847m at the current $0.18 rate of exchange compared with $595m a year ago . |
| 28 | Wilkie claims some existing success in the OEM markets : for the past two years , he says , a ‘ not insignificant ’ proportion of disk drive output has been going to nameless OEM customers . |
| 29 | Until now the allied air forces have been going to enemy positions ; once the ground forces move in , the enemy air force will have to come up to fight . |
| 30 | In addition to the British Standards updating service which the Library and Information Service have been offering to their customers , they are now in a position to offer an updating service for standards from other National and International Standard Bodies . |