Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] have be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I do n't know what wind you 've been listening to . |
| 2 | Climbing to his feet , the tall sheriff pocketed the small hand-mirror he had been holding to Grant 's lips . |
| 3 | The other girl who had been talking to Blake walked over to the Doctor . |
| 4 | Philip Jones Griffiths , a Magnum photographer who has been going to Vietnam for 23 years , say , s ‘ We used to joke that you can take the photographer out of Vietnam but not Vietnam out of the photographer ’ . |
| 5 | Over his shoulder he saw the looming shape of Arthur Dooley , the main singer of the group they 'd been listening to . |
| 6 | Al-Kadir , the timid and vacillating ruler of Valencia , capitulated without delay , restoring the tribute he had been paying to El Cid before his second banishment . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | night he 's been going to bed at ten , eleven o see that was quarter past ten last night before you went |
| 10 | The claim is sometimes made of a lack of continuity in policy which has been damaging to growth : in particular , that political changes have inhibited consistent action by civil servants . |
| 11 | A woman who 's been writing to a convicted killer facing the gas chamber in America is to visit him on Death Row . |
| 12 | But to my mind the boy could begin by showing more respect altogether to people like your father who have been listening to what the League says about the problems of the land and the bosses and the conditions of the men and women who work on it . |
| 13 | ‘ Sure I would , ’ and her brother turned on the Sunday game he had been listening to when Moran entered the yard . |
| 14 | Acting Detective Superintendent Mick Cox is leading the enquiry he 's been talking to Nigel Bell and telling him they 're convinced that the same girl has made all the phone calls . |
| 15 | ‘ If what this girl says is true , you 'll find proof of their guilt in the car , sergeant , ’ said the stout man who had been talking to the keeper . |
| 16 | You 've no idea what 's been happening to us ! ’ she said , before suddenly bursting into a storm of tears . |
| 17 | The dentist I had been going to for years no longer took NHS patients . |
| 18 | I had thought at the time she had been referring to an officer on some survey vessel , the British Antarctic Survey 's supply ship perhaps , or else a pelagic fisherman or whaler , even an Antarctic explorer . |
| 19 | And he 'd known it , all the time he 'd been trying to bed her . |