Example sentences of "[noun sg] have be [v-ing] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ no support ’ excuse has been coming more to the fore recently . |
| 2 | The two of them had been at daggers drawn ever since 1183 , and in recent months , as incident followed incident , tension had been building up to a new peak . |
| 3 | On the other side of the House , Norman Tebbit and the rest of the rabid Right had been nodding along to Mr Kaufman . |
| 4 | The last time he had seen him the Trollslayer had been wandering off to booze with his fellow outcast Dwarfs . |
| 5 | His mum , Jacqueline , of Cardigan , said : ‘ When I bent down I could see that the metal mesh had been cutting in to his scalp . ’ |
| 6 | Officially , the Government has been expecting up to one million appeals . |
| 7 | Officially , the Government has been expecting up to one million appeals . |
| 8 | This was what it was all about , she realised hazily — this was what her whole life had been leading up to , this man , this place , this almost unbearably exquisite time out of time . |
| 9 | The money 's been pouring on to Gala 's Image , odds have come down from 25 to 1 . |
| 10 | No , the White House has been listening hard to how people think things look , and devising plans to fit . |