Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] have be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Lyell had been returning to Britain from Carolina as a member of the crew of a merchant vessel when his ship was intercepted by a cruiser and he was impressed for service in an undermanned warship . |
| 2 | Maisie Dougall had been listening to her friends going on and she thought it was about time she made a contribution . |
| 3 | Rebecca Marston has been talking to Ken Schwarz , Director of Development at the company who 've published the figures on executives pay . |
| 4 | DAVID WALMSLEY has been talking to Ulster 's faces of the future . |
| 5 | Frank Strandli has been talking to Howard Wilkinson about his future at Elland Road . |
| 6 | NORMA Major has been listening to Jarvis 's Frayn , the latest cassette recording from actor Martin Jarvis , on her car cassette . |
| 7 | Harold Lock has been coming to the pool since he was a child and says it would be a crime to close it down . |
| 8 | Lt Col Stewart has been reporting to the UN on some of the dreadful conditions suffered by refugees at the front-line town of Maglaj , where he said the situation was ‘ disgraceful . ’ |
| 9 | Mr. Edmonds has been talking to himself for years … now everyone listens |
| 10 | Mr Perelman has been talking to Shearson and its parent , American Express , about buying a 20 per cent shareholding in the broking business . |
| 11 | The head told me that Mrs Singh had been coming to school regularly to express concern about Balbinder 's lack of progress . |
| 12 | Robin Powell has been talking to an Oxfordshire woman just elected , who takes a less optimistic view . |
| 13 | Mrs Grandison followed her apprehensively into one of those ubiquitous tea-shops which cater for the multitudes of office workers and others who want a cheap meal at any time of the day , and which , excellent though they are , can hardly be compared with the restaurants Mrs Grandison had been hoping to lunch in . |
| 14 | Di Driver had been coming to my classes for some time and she knew I was appearing on the programme but I had no idea that she planned on paying me a visit ‘ on air ’ . |
| 15 | Mrs O had been chatting to a close friend for over an hour . |
| 16 | Loretta turned to find that Geoffrey Simmons had been listening to the conversation . |
| 17 | Kevin Kline 's been chatting to John Miller about working with a great actor — himself ! |
| 18 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA had been looking to 1992 as a year of recovery , but that was not quite the way things turned out , and after provisions , the French state-owned company saw even worse figures than in 1991 , losses equivalent to $847m at the current $0.18 rate of exchange compared with $595m a year ago . |
| 19 | Well in the last hour reporter Claire Lafferty has been speaking to Martin Frears ' father in Cheltenham . |
| 20 | Iain Logan had been listening to him as though fascinated by the stress of experience which had lengthened Cameron 's face and closed his black brows over his eyes . |
| 21 | Harriet Ryley has been talking to an organic farmer who believes in putting the environment before profits . |