Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] been [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The claim is sometimes made of a lack of continuity in policy which has been damaging to growth : in particular , that political changes have inhibited consistent action by civil servants . |
| 2 | and we ’ ll be previewing the grand prix season in four weeks time … now next week the Oxford playhouse stages one of the sporting mismatches of the year … and cast in the unlikely role of trainer or coach is Alan Ayckbourn who after Shakespeare is the most performed playwrite of all time … the name of the game is a production about rowing called One Over the Eight which has been playing to packed houses in Scarborough |
| 3 | Gill Hill , who has been seeing to the social side of things , organised an outing to the Crystal Palace Reunion for members from Hatfield , Hemel Hempstead , St. Albans and Harpenden , and another to Sadlers Wells Theatre for the ballet enthusiasts . |
| 4 | Philip Jones Griffiths , a Magnum photographer who has been going to Vietnam for 23 years , say , s ‘ We used to joke that you can take the photographer out of Vietnam but not Vietnam out of the photographer ’ . |
| 5 | She has been talking to the Seniors about working on Saturdays . |
| 6 | She has been going to therapy since she was about two . ’ |
| 7 | " She 'll part with one of those diamonds she 's been clinging to . " |
| 8 | ‘ But then , she 's been topping to us lately . |
| 9 | She 's been writing to the Health Minister , her local MP and Norma Major every day for 2 weeks and plans to continue . |
| 10 | ‘ She 's been talking to you about me then ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ She upset her hosts by her grumpy behaviour in Korea and we believe she 's been talking to Morton 's people again . |
| 12 | But er but er yeah , so but like , she 's been saying to me cos she 's been thinking about whether she is or not she er she 's been like like everywhere there 's babys and prams and everywhe , on the telly and everything , do you know what I mean ? |
| 13 | I know this may sound like a long shot — but someone who 's been listening to 2 Pac 's ‘ 2PacalypseNow ’ super-LP was recently arrested in a stolen car ( with the tape still playing ) for killing a police officer in America . |
| 14 | And finally we impeached a man called Waddell who 's been boasting to everyone in Barlinnie Jail that he and another man did it . ’ |
| 15 | A woman who 's been writing to a convicted killer facing the gas chamber in America is to visit him on Death Row . |
| 16 | Who 's been gossiping to you about her running away with the married man when she was fifteen and ending up in the Daily Record ? |
| 17 | Cos Lee , since this one 's been talking to him all the time |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been thinking , ’ said Melissa while Iris ladled out dollops of home-made fruit yoghurt , ‘ whoever has been coming to Angy 's class and calling herself Delia Forbes must know the real Delia is away . ’ |
| 19 | Ask the Holy Spirit to give you the strength and resolve to follow God 's will in whatever he has been revealing to you . |
| 20 | But like you , he has been talking to my shipping office in Monaco and learns that there has been no communication for four days . |
| 21 | Childrens World marketing communications controller John Forester says he has been talking to agencies with the knowledge of the incumbent GGT and insists there is no review of the Sears-owned business . |
| 22 | ‘ It has been speaking to me all my life — ’ |
| 23 | It has been suggesting to UNTAC , the UN authority in Cambodia , whose mandate requires it to stay until the elected assembly writes and enacts a constitution , that the election was rigged in the places ( like the capital , Phnom Penh ) where the CPP did worst . |
| 24 | The new ruling , which Advanced Micro plans to appeal , means that it will have to write new microcode for the Am486 chip that it has been sampling to a few potential customers and had hoped to ship by the end of the year . |
| 25 | Visible ideas are signs and indications of tangible ideas , and have a constant and universal connection with them which was ‘ learnt at our first entrance into the world ; and ever since , almost every moment of our lives , it has been occurring to our thoughts , and fastening and striking deeper on our minds . ’ |
| 26 | Starring Paul Nicholas , it 's been playing to packed houses for nearly two weeks . |
| 27 | Perhaps he 's been listening to it , too , and thinking of me . |
| 28 | He spotted your sign , ’ Vitor said , with a nod towards it , ‘ so he 's been speaking to the locals and asking a few questions . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Whatever he 's been doing to you , he wo n't do it again . |
| 30 | I know he 's been doing to this man as he 's gone past so Harry sitting there the not saying you know . |