Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] 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 | Over his shoulder he saw the looming shape of Arthur Dooley , the main singer of the group they 'd been listening to . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | night he 's been going to bed at ten , eleven o see that was quarter past ten last night before you went |
| 8 | ‘ Sure I would , ’ and her brother turned on the Sunday game he had been listening to when Moran entered the yard . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The dentist I had been going to for years no longer took NHS patients . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And he 'd known it , all the time he 'd been trying to bed her . |