Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] been [v-ing] to " in BNC.

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1 I 'd just been talking to the guard , twelve hour shifts , sixty hours a week and he ca n't even have any time off for tea breaks or meal breaks .
2 ‘ The situation has been eased slightly for my parents since a community nurse has been visiting Jennifer , but I must admit I 'd rapidly been coming to the conclusion that something else would be needed very soon .
3 When you and Chantal arrived at that accommodation agency I had just been talking to the proprietor .
4 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 ! ’
5 ‘ By the way , I 've just been listening to the news .
6 Oh I 've just been listening to your conversation with Dennis and Iris .
7 took the first call , but I 've just been speaking to him , and you 'd better have the full picture . ’
8 I 've just been speaking to my sister .
9 I 've just been speaking to Drewer , ’ rapped Naylor .
10 I 've just been talking to your aunt on the phone .
11 I 've just been talking to Captain Montgomery .
12 I 've just been talking to Mrs Flaherty , ’ she said .
13 Erm I I 've just been talking to me husband about it .
14 Catching her arm , he said quietly , ‘ I 've just been talking to Donal . ’
15 But I 've just been talking to the head there and he said you know that you know the tor tutorial programme , Mrs started it all erm
16 You may have to say , Well I 've just been talking to the estate agent about this and er you know on a number occasions he 's sent people along to you er may be you did n't realize that was happening .
17 Well no she does n't , I 've just been talking to her .
18 I 've also been listening to a lot of Glenn Branca recently .
19 But I 've never been talking to you before .
20 I have also been listening to this wonderful young singer from Dresden , Olaf Bär .
21 I have just been speaking to Officer Hassan .
22 As I write , on Easter day , I have just been listening to Matins from King 's college , Cambridge , broadcast on Radio 3 — superb performances of music by William Byrd and a finely engineered sound .
23 In those few minutes she 'd simply been reacting to the mood he 'd created so skilfully .
24 Now you 've just been describing to us Mr about er your leisure activities etcetera and it was sort of confined to the etcetera .
25 Wh erm Terry 's feelings there do they you 've obviously been speaking to large numbers of protestors do they marry with the other opinions that you hear ?
26 ‘ But you 've only been talking to them for a little while ! ’ said Angalo .
27 She had apparently been travelling to Godstowe and must therefore have been expected .
28 She is simply an older version of the woman you have just been talking to , and so the farce goes into Round Two with defeat for the customer the only possible outcome .
29 looking after the littlest ones all day and and she 's obviously been speaking to them like that during
30 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 . ’
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