Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] have been [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stayed in the bottom class , but noticed the girl that I had been talking to was in another class . |
| 2 | As the hon. Gentleman introduced the subject of colour of dress , I can only say that I have been listening to him for almost 18 years and I wish that he would sometimes change the colour of his tie . |
| 3 | That confirms the point that I have been making to the House for some time about the international slow-down and international difficulties . |
| 4 | ‘ So I 've been turning to simpler guitars , guitars that limit you , but that limit you in interesting ways . |
| 5 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | Still she wondered who it was that she had been responding to . |
| 8 | Thank you Chairman erm I would like I know that you 've been listening to the first er part of our session this afternoon , erm and I 'd like to ask you to discuss with us one of the questions that we asked the group the Pension Fund erm and that 's to discuss the balance of power that exists between the employer and the various groups and classes of pensioner . |
| 9 | ‘ So you 've been chatting to the Earl of Ferngrove , Jill ! ’ |
| 10 | Once you 've been going to the same shops a lot , y'know , just standing around and not buying anything , they get to know you . |
| 11 | We have found the leaks , and we have connected all , we have reconnected all of the er supplies , including a supply to the cathedral field , which has never been billed in the past er because of erm damage to their meter , it 's only used twenty seven gallons but twenty seven litres , but whilst I 've been here , it 's a water meadow from the result of the water that we 've been supplying to that particular field . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Thiercelin , for instance , had no idea of the fact that they had been listening to the work of the greatest composer of the day . |
| 15 | The new ruling , which Advanced Micro plans to appeal , means that it will have to write new microcode for the Am486 chip that it has been sampling to a few potential customers and had hoped to ship by the end of the year . |
| 16 | She 'd thought at the time — fleetingly , without really dwelling on it — that he 'd been referring to Arnie with these remarks . |
| 17 | And he was glad to have an excuse to put off telling her the news that he 'd been keeping to himself . |
| 18 | The publican replied that he 'd been talking to his dog . |
| 19 | But in his heart he knew that he had been speaking to a troubled spirit , a spirit that had something terrible to confess . |
| 20 | He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station . |
| 21 | His comment also meant that he had been listening to her conversation with the receptionist in Dublin — because he had still been bored ? |
| 22 | When she began to protest , he claimed he was getting help on an out-patient basis , and that he had been going to AA . |
| 23 | He spotted your sign , ’ Vitor said , with a nod towards it , ‘ so he 's been speaking to the locals and asking a few questions . ’ |
| 24 | I 've got a trainee manager at the moment and I 've been trying to he 's just making such a balls up it 's easier not to . |
| 25 | ‘ When we have our celebration , it reminds me of Lourdes , and I 've been going to Lourdes since 1961 . |
| 26 | And I 've been going to the shop and changing a note every time for the change . |
| 27 | And I 've been running to the toilet , five times yesterday , five times , really bad . |
| 28 | If I have been fishing to the north of Fetlar , I sometimes take the ‘ inner route ’ back , a rather tortuous passage through the reefs and islets where navigation has to be pretty precise to avoid hitting hidden rocks . |
| 29 | the er the lady that comes to the meetings cos I 've been going to them . |
| 30 | And she 'd been talking to him for about half an hour and well er her son had come up |