Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] have be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the pilot 's seat Bill has been listening to the conversation behind him . |
| 2 | The Home Secretary has been talking to Peter Murphy about the siege and the efforts to end it . |
| 3 | ACET 's local representative , Ana Ureche , reported that she was ‘ greatly encouraged ’ that course participants had been lecturing to schools and other groups and had passed much of the literature obtained form the course to other colleagues for their use . |
| 4 | Since before the war animals have been going to the surgery for treatment . |
| 5 | In the tropical oceans reef building corals have been responding to climatic changes for hundreds of years . |
| 6 | Labour 's deputy leader has been saying to the councils , ’ You may not get as much as you want , but you will certainly get more . ’ |
| 7 | Wilkie claims some existing success in the OEM markets : for the past two years , he says , a ‘ not insignificant ’ proportion of disk drive output has been going to nameless OEM customers . |
| 8 | Until now the allied air forces have been going to enemy positions ; once the ground forces move in , the enemy air force will have to come up to fight . |
| 9 | In addition to the British Standards updating service which the Library and Information Service have been offering to their customers , they are now in a position to offer an updating service for standards from other National and International Standard Bodies . |
| 10 | It is recognised that a lot of people who might once have bought homes in the West Country have been flocking to France in recent years to cash in on the predicted property boom . |
| 11 | I 'd like to know who cut the strings of her tennis racket too , the first formers looked at one another , it certainly is queer the way things have been happening to poor Mary Lou lately , even her prayer book had disappeared and some of her pencils had gone . |
| 12 | All the time Ward had been talking to the receptionist his head had been half turned to the street doors , which were wide open , framing an incessant movement of people in an iridescent haze of hot sunlight . |
| 13 | I was asking you about the guy Adam 's been talking to this evening . ’ |
| 14 | For some time Leonard had been listening to the music of the day , which he shared with his mother and sister . |