Example sentences of "[adv] be [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 | . Now what I 'm now going to do , I 'm going to tell you what these initials are , so if you , on the back of the piece of the paper , you make some notes , because some of these obviously are going to be what you , your personality is , but you also need to note , if you look at the type of things that you can expect from different people in the teams , or the strengths and weaknesses that some people may have in your team . |
| 10 | Few venture capitalists feel that the UK equity market has the effervescence to be able to generate the level of returns seen in the past , and so are looking to continental buyers to supply the exit opportunities for cleanly-structured , discrete , well-managed UK companies . |
| 11 | This mean that he probably do not wish to play as a central defender in the english premiership — central defenders in england are seldom allowed/seen going forward and ronny feels after playing three reserve games for spurs ( which is supposed to be a playing team … ) that this kind of futba does not suit him … so i guess he will be staying here — most of the top norw. players just think of one thing now — USA'94 and to be among the 24 that are travelling — and they choose club out from this : ie how much play will i get at my new club — better be going to a low-profile club in the premiership than a high profile club where i might have to sit on the bench ( Flo , Nilsen ( Sheff Utd ) , Halle , Pedersen ( Oldham ) , Fjortoft ( Swindon ) — will gets lot of play this winter — whereas players like Bjornebye ( Liverpool ) , Lydersen , ( Arsenal ) and Strandli ( Leeds ) struggle to keep/get places in their teams . |
| 12 | Industry will especially be looking to the polytechnics to provide a further and much needed stimulus to innovations already taking place in higher education ; in particular , in the development of mixed degree courses , modular courses coupled with practical experience , and of the sandwich system of education and training generally , and in the opening up of opportunities for women in all branches of higher education , not least science and technology . |
| 13 | During the debate , I shall obviously be referring to matters that come within my hon. Friend 's remit , although I shall also be speaking about some of the important issues relating to regional economic and industrial policy which fall within the remit of the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 14 | Erm , if they start to have an illness and it develops we 'll obviously be talking to their doctor , I mean if it 's apparent that they 're blind on the form , well then , obviously we would looking the amount we paid , or , or , erm , basically come to some agreement on that . |
| 15 | It could only be damaging to commercial life . |
| 16 | Thus the following , said on Thursday , can only be referring to next Thursday ( or perhaps some more remote Thursday ) , otherwise the speaker should have said today : ( 58 ) I 'll see you on Thursday The same holds if it is said on Wednesday , due to pre-emptive tomorrow . |
| 17 | ‘ And if you 're worried about the taxpayer , should n't you perhaps be attending to the urgent little matter your sergeant told you about ? ’ |
| 18 | They are already down in Cardiff but ASLEF apparently is objecting to the very small cabs which have been created for the driver at one end . |
| 19 | Working out just how to bring us all together is proving to be the sticking point . |
| 20 | ‘ Piecing the bodies together is going to be a full-time job for some poor bastard . |
| 21 | But as the organisation has seen to be when it meets generally speaking , the council and the executive are one and the same dealing with exactly the same business , I 've considered it a meeting of the organisation , and the organisation now basically is going to be the seven sub-committee plus an Annual General Meeting of it 's full council . |
| 22 | The vogue for dressing down is getting to the upmarket emporia . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , local supplies may become exhausted and , with an increase in the use of charcoal , particularly in urban areas , forests far away are beginning to be affected . |
| 24 | TIGHT-LIPS Taylor to-morrow meets the Press he 's not been speaking to . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Dougal had not been listening to her for at least a minute . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | The right hon. Gentleman has not been listening to his hon. Friends . |
| 30 | and says erm we 've not been talking to her it sa she 's not the one to write . |