Example sentences of "[adv] been [v-ing] to " in BNC.

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1 ‘ But you 've only been talking to them for a little while ! ’ said Angalo .
2 She had apparently been travelling to Godstowe and must therefore have been expected .
3 Club sailors in the one-design classes have long been proving to one another just who 's best .
4 We 'd all been listening to things like reggae and Spanish music , and when we got together to rehearse , we 'd be playing all kinds of crazy stuff before we settled down to get serious . ’
5 They 've all been listening to the trainer .
6 Wh erm Terry 's feelings there do they you 've obviously been speaking to large numbers of protestors do they marry with the other opinions that you hear ?
7 looking after the littlest ones all day and and she 's obviously been speaking to them like that during
8 Jerry refuses with zest ; he has obviously been springing to his own defence for many a long year .
9 TIGHT-LIPS Taylor to-morrow meets the Press he 's not been speaking to .
10 Two years ago , before he received an honorary doctorate at Stirling University , he told The Scotsman that the researchers had not been speaking to each other .
11 And , the greatest guilt of all , if she had not been in Maisie 's house … if Maisie had not been tending to the birthing … then the fire would not have happened and that darling woman would be alive today .
12 Dougal had not been listening to her for at least a minute .
13 Has the right hon. and learned Gentleman not been listening to the chorus of demands from the CBI , from the trade unions and now also from a number of Conservative newspapers for an increase in capital allowances for manufacturing industry ?
14 The right hon. Gentleman has not been listening to his hon. Friends .
15 and says erm we 've not been talking to her it sa she 's not the one to write .
16 Because she 's not been going to the first aid room .
17 She was right , as it happens , but Scarlet , not being clairvoyant , could n't be expected to know that and resigned herself to yet another evening which would not be wholly enjoyable even had she not been going to the theatre .
18 When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home .
19 So far as I can tell , and that 's not as far as I 'd like , on the last few Fridays he 's not been going to any other bank or finance house .
20 Another thing , perhaps , we should notice right at the very beginning is that Jesus did n't actually speak in pa , in in er , in chapters , and they 've lost , they 've been put in for our convenience , and chapter fifteen is not the beginning of a new incident Jesus had already been speaking to the people , he had been teaching them in chapter fourteen .
21 Astra has already been talking to officials of the Commons about its planned service , based on the American C-Span cable network , which performs a similar function .
22 Er in fact I have now , Mr has found the er the report which has actually got the traffic assessment e that we 've just been referring to which is er no western relief road but with in an inner northern road .
23 As I write , on Easter day , I have just been listening to Matins from King 's college , Cambridge , broadcast on Radio 3 — superb performances of music by William Byrd and a finely engineered sound .
24 ‘ By the way , I 've just been listening to the news .
25 Oh I 've just been listening to your conversation with Dennis and Iris .
26 took the first call , but I 've just been speaking to him , and you 'd better have the full picture . ’
27 ‘ I have just been speaking to Officer Hassan .
28 ‘ I 've just been speaking to my sister .
29 ‘ I 've just been speaking to Drewer , ’ rapped Naylor .
30 Then that particular Saturday , Leith 's outgoing if slightly irresponsible brother had come to tell her excitedly , ‘ I 've just been chatting to Rosemary Green ! ’
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