Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] have be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seemingly symbiotic link has been damaging to the more general applicability of these criteria in other contexts . |
| 2 | I 've got a bit of a conflict of interest here straightaway because the actual case that Roy is talking about is actually my brother and I at this moment have been complaining to the Lloyds Policy Unit in respect of erm this particular policy , because the company that was actually trading went into liquidation . |
| 3 | You see , I refrain from outlining just what this gentleman has been saying to me — about you all . |
| 4 | Anxious readers of the Daily Telegraph have been writing to me in their thousands to ask : what happens to these celebrities in the event of a hung parliament ? |
| 5 | To put you on stand-by for the grunt'n'groan grapplers , The Daily Mirror has been speaking to two family rivals — British Bulldog and Bret ‘ Hit Man ’ Hart . |
| 6 | And er an interesting thing had been coming to our house She comes goes to the same church . |
| 7 | At the same time , as the next chapter shows , many of the rural population have been migrating to urban areas in the hope of joining the labour force there . |
| 8 | For the past half-hour the little man had been giggling to himself as he stropped a Buck knife razor-sharp on the inside of his belt . |
| 9 | Retired businessman had been trying to but the 1936 Armstrong Siddeley for years , but was told the car was not for sale . |
| 10 | Inevitably we have n't held er er they have n't been able to hold up that new members this year and er the main job has been trying to er keep quite a number of the members who were recruited er to the gen following er the general election . |