Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] been [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos that 's why I did n't get any when I got my last prescription because I 'd been trying to just sort of even take one |
| 2 | and Peter came in the morning , I never thought anything I 'd been listening to the radio , I heard there was a big accident on the road , a car accident |
| 3 | I told him I 'd been talking to Richie . |
| 4 | A lot of them related to the data I 'd been passing but also he 'd want to know who I 'd been talking to . |
| 5 | ‘ She was complaining at not being able to get through because my number was engaged and I said I 'd been talking to you . |
| 6 | After I 'd been talking to him about leaving . |
| 7 | I 'd been talking to someone about the effects of music , cos there 's a couple of court cases going on . |
| 8 | ‘ No , you came here wanting to know what I 'd been saying to Mr Kronweiser today . ’ |
| 9 | For about a year , since the summer before last , in fact , I had been writing to her and she to me and , because of the distance and something else I have n't been able to put my finger on ( maybe a need for excitement ) , the letters had become more and more sentimental , more and more loving , more and more like proper love letters . |
| 10 | It dealt with something about which I had been writing to Social Security Ministers for about six months — abuse of the benefit-in-kind regulations , whereby highly paid people were paying themselves in gilt unit trusts . |
| 11 | Living at Betty 's house , I had been listening to it speak for long enough . |
| 12 | I had been listening to a lot of songs in very different styles , quite consciously , to try to get a little more inspiration for when we went into the studio . |
| 13 | Six years later she remembers , vividly , a match against Fiona Anderson in the Scottish Championship at North Berwick which was won by Gillian Stewart : " I had been listening to " The Mikado " before I set out and I was humming it in my head all the way round . |
| 14 | Er , my experience is slightly different when erm when I had been trying to sort of recover , I did n't , I did n't feel as if I 've get any help from professionals that I approached . |
| 15 | I stayed in the bottom class , but noticed the girl that I had been talking to was in another class . |
| 16 | The problem came to a crisis after I had been going to evening classes ( Workers ' Educational Association ) , the subject being psychology . |
| 17 | The dentist I had been going to for years no longer took NHS patients . |
| 18 | The report focused on a United States pharmaceutical company , Velsicol Chemical Corporation , which had been exporting to the Third World large quantities of chlordane and heptachlor , " two of the most highly toxic persistent and bio-accumulative insecticides ever made " according to the report . |
| 19 | I mean , if you 'd been talking to him during the lesson he 'd say , well , if you want to talk about it , leave it till after the lesson . |
| 20 | If she 'd been pretending to be busy before , she really was busy now . |
| 21 | Ven queried , as well he might , she realised , for she 'd been chatting to him like a veritable magpie all evening with not so much as a hint of shyness . |
| 22 | She 'd been wanting to be my best friend for ages . |
| 23 | She 'd been listening to him with dawning realisation , an icy sensation freezing her body inch by inch . |
| 24 | She 'd replaced the receiver instantly and refused to tell him who she 'd been speaking to , but then , as now , there was something challenging in her expression . |
| 25 | And she 'd been coming to our house , Oh about fie or six years , and she said one day to Mary , that 's my wife , says you know , Not strange name , there 's not many of them about . |
| 26 | Now you suspected she 'd been lying to you for thirteen years . |
| 27 | The same Rory she 'd been talking to just before he and his wife Harriet died . |
| 28 | And she 'd been talking to him for about half an hour and well er her son had come up |
| 29 | A few moments later , acquitted defendant Daniel Winter , who 'd been listening to the closing speeches , ran from the building . |
| 30 | I had thought at the time she had been referring to an officer on some survey vessel , the British Antarctic Survey 's supply ship perhaps , or else a pelagic fisherman or whaler , even an Antarctic explorer . |