Example sentences of "[noun prp] have be [v-ing] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Edmonds has been talking to himself for years … now everyone listens |
| 2 | ‘ So Alexei has been referring to me as his uncle ? ’ |
| 3 | It started to get out of proportion in that he , Ray has been talking to him about the impact of the summer season in Scarborough in terms of how long it takes his staff to get from A to B. |
| 4 | She also knew that Bertie had been lying to her over ‘ discontinuing ’ the post . |
| 5 | Maisie Dougall had been listening to her friends going on and she thought it was about time she made a contribution . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | but you see Joyce has been saying to us |
| 9 | To everybody , I walked round the site with Paul and and Stuart last Friday because Paul had been whingeing to me about erm twenty five K G palletizing and the fact that they were n't they were n't properly packed as it were . |
| 10 | Roger 's been complaining to me |
| 11 | ‘ Both worrying about the troubles of the world and how to cure them , but John 's been talking to his dad about this Spanish business and other things and he 'll work things out soon . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Annie 's been chatting to him quite a lot , lately . |