Example sentences of "[pron] have be [v-ing] to [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been listening to your programme all morning so . |
| 2 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to my Hilda and young Ralph . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to our friends in Manila , ’ he says , chattily , as though the difference in our rank means nothing to him . |
| 4 | And she 'd been coming to our house , Oh about fie or six years , and she said one day to Mary , that 's my wife , says you know , Not strange name , there 's not many of them about . |
| 5 | How many of these songs could she have been singing to her daddy ? |
| 6 | You 've been listening to his scaremongering nonsense . |
| 7 | ‘ You 've been talking to my wife . |
| 8 | If you 're opting for a perm or colour , always tell your hairdresser what you 've been doing to your hair . |
| 9 | ‘ I told you not to bother , ’ Ellen said disparagingly as she climbed the main companionway , and I guessed that she had been listening to my conversation with Billingsley by standing just under the saloon skylight which was propped open . |
| 10 | They knew we 'd been talking to their pop idols and they just wanted to touch us . |
| 11 | Mr Harrison said : ‘ Following the closure of the Swan Hunter yard the Government has finally agreed to talk to the EC about getting the same subsidies for all British shipyards that we 've been giving to our competitors in the EC for years . |
| 12 | He added : ‘ Following the closure of Swan Hunter 's , the government has finally agreed to talk to the EC about getting the same subsidies for all British shipyards that we have been giving to our competitors in the EC for years . |
| 13 | But like you , he has been talking to my shipping office in Monaco and learns that there has been no communication for four days . |
| 14 | Visible ideas are signs and indications of tangible ideas , and have a constant and universal connection with them which was ‘ learnt at our first entrance into the world ; and ever since , almost every moment of our lives , it has been occurring to our thoughts , and fastening and striking deeper on our minds . ’ |
| 15 | The publican replied that he 'd been talking to his dog . |
| 16 | His comment also meant that he had been listening to her conversation with the receptionist in Dublin — because he had still been bored ? |
| 17 | The officer 's life was ‘ almost certainly ’ saved by the fact that one bullet became embedded in a radio handset he had been holding to his ear . |
| 18 | His life had almost certainly been saved by the fact that one bullet had hit a radio handset he had been holding to his ear . |