Example sentences of "[pron] have been [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I have been fishing to the north of Fetlar , I sometimes take the ‘ inner route ’ back , a rather tortuous passage through the reefs and islets where navigation has to be pretty precise to avoid hitting hidden rocks . |
| 2 | But I feel it incumbent upon me ( I have been listening to chairmen 's speeches ) to bring up the subject for one last time because of a letter from a reader in Nigeria . |
| 3 | Of the four issues I have been listening to , which could hardly be more different from one another in approach , none is without distinction , none without its own appeal . |
| 4 | I have been listening to ‘ Shepherd Moons ’ for three days straight , packing for a bunk to the Islamic world and every moment of departure in my entire life has come tumbling out of my memory , often erupting in tears . |
| 5 | As the hon. Gentleman introduced the subject of colour of dress , I can only say that I have been listening to him for almost 18 years and I wish that he would sometimes change the colour of his tie . |
| 6 | I have been speaking to him on the phone and we have decided that it would be in everyone 's interest to postpone First Holy Communion until the last Sunday of term , July 15th . |
| 7 | I must go now , or my brother will guess I have been speaking to you . |
| 8 | What I have been referring to vaguely as the knowledge system , Fodor calls the central systems . |
| 9 | I have been subscribing to The Artist since 1965 . |
| 10 | I have been talking to the whites many years about the lands in question , and it is strange they can not understand me ; the country they claim belonged to my father , and when he died it was given to me and my people , and I will not leave it until I am compelled to . |
| 11 | I have been talking to colleagues here in Oxford about the use of OALDCE 3/e in one of your hand held devices . |
| 12 | I have been talking to one or two members of s staff at a fairly low level over the last week . |
| 13 | I have been talking to the leaders in Medicine and Education and clearly there are many areas where we can and will be working together in telling the Government that they must support us in supplying quality services and that the Treasury is a support service , not the determinant of policy . |
| 14 | For over thirty years , along with my fellow teachers , I have been going to educational conferences , and training sessions , and workshops , to hear countless leaders in education talk , as you do , about the dignity of the child , and the importance of individual differences , and of fostering positive self-concepts , and building on the interests of the child , and letting the child learn from curiosity rather than fear . |
| 15 | Since the age of 5 I have been going to Highfield , my sister was 6 and my brother was 8 . |
| 16 | Now I can not think of a single occasion over the years , my adulthood when I have been going to theatre arts events of any kind when I 've actually gone out and bought anything as a result of sponsorship of a programme I 've been looking at . |
| 17 | That confirms the point that I have been making to the House for some time about the international slow-down and international difficulties . |
| 18 | The vast majority of them are non-Kuwaiti nationals leaving Kuwait , erm Bengalis , Thais , Sri Lankans , Phillipinos , erm never mind Arab nationals who have been leaving to Egypt , Sudan , Lebanon , Syria and Jordan themselves . |
| 19 | The way the work-force has been treated over the last few years , the uncertainty that 's been created and the lack of consultation , the impact on their lives of such a closure on people who have been expecting to be there until they retire — their jobs may well go , and the impact on that , both for their own lives as well as their families . |
| 20 | But to my mind the boy could begin by showing more respect altogether to people like your father who have been listening to what the League says about the problems of the land and the bosses and the conditions of the men and women who work on it . |
| 21 | YORK IS preparing to repel a band of gypsies who have been travelling to the city for centuries . |
| 22 | One oil analyst described investor sentiment as a ‘ two-way pull between the Americans who are trying to be optimistic and the British who have been selling to them ’ . |
| 23 | It 's I who have been talking to her . |
| 24 | DANCE fans in Warrington who have been going to the Groover night at Mr Smith 's club now have a two-in-one dance night instead . |
| 25 | ’ If you have been attending to it for twenty four years , I came here into this church as a choir boy . ’ |
| 26 | Now let me ask you , a lot of you this , some of you have been coming to Congress year after year , you probably come from branches from five hundred , a thousand , fifteen hundred people , but how many people actually go to the branch meetings to elect you to come to Congress ? |
| 27 | A crucial assumption of the kinds of statistical calculations we have been referring to is that the sample has been randomly drawn from some population . |
| 28 | ‘ I know the civil liberties people will not like it , but to some degree they have got us into this mess and we have been listening to them for too long , ’ said Mr Gallie . |
| 29 | We have been talking to the horse , stroking it , and trying to reassure it . |
| 30 | In the years we have been going to the Arctic ( at least one summer and one winter trip now for as long as I can remember ) , we have acquired odd niggles . |