Example sentences of "[adv] be [v-ing] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But you 've only been talking to them for a little while ! ’ said Angalo . |
| 2 | looking after the littlest ones all day and and she 's obviously been speaking to them like that during |
| 3 | Jerry refuses with zest ; he has obviously been springing to his own defence for many a long year . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Oh I 've just been listening to your conversation with Dennis and Iris . |
| 7 | took the first call , but I 've just been speaking to him , and you 'd better have the full picture . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've just been speaking to my sister . |
| 9 | Well no she does n't , I 've just been talking to her . |
| 10 | Erm I I 've just been talking to me husband about it . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've just been talking to your aunt on the phone . |
| 12 | You see I 've got with me in the studio here Stan Bowes , who 's the head of marketing for the Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board , and Stan has just been explaining to us that there is this campaign to encourage people to take holidays in this country . |
| 13 | Now you 've just been describing to us Mr about er your leisure activities etcetera and it was sort of confined to the etcetera . |
| 14 | We understand that she will shortly be returning to her home in London . |
| 15 | The day that would soon be drawing to its close had been one of the most wonderful he had experienced : the theft , the murder , the link between the theft and the murder — yes , all now known . |
| 16 | The King of Blefuscu , however , replied that I was too strong to be taken prisoner , and that I would soon be returning to my country anyway . |
| 17 | Sole has retired from rugby at the age of 30 , when prop forwards such as he should just be coming to their prime . |
| 18 | Awareness , although aided by propositional knowledge , is primarily of the concrete situation , to which one can not attend without being causally affected , so that to have become aware of it at all one must already be responding to it in ways which vary with the range and degree of awareness . |
| 19 | What exactly was happening to him ? |
| 20 | Have you ever been speaking to someone , perhaps an attractive member of the opposite sex , when , without thinking , you 've looked down at their mouth ? |
| 21 | Although the three-part series is aimed at older teenagers , we deliberately sought the opinion of younger children who would still be listening to their stereos when the show is transmitted at 8.30pm — half an hour before the traditional watershed for adult programmes . |
| 22 | They can still be playing to their full ability at 34 ish . |
| 23 | And I left Rhos-y-Bol when I retired because I felt I they 'd have to have another nurse there , and you see the other nurse would never be able to enjoy the They would always be running to me a and it would n't be fair to another nurse . |
| 24 | And at various stages during the organic you 'll also be coming to what we call optical isomers . |
| 25 | A major highway , Interstate 80 , which crosses the southern edge of the flats , may also be contributing to their depletion by causing new patterns of drainage for the salt water . |
| 26 | And those bits again , either tuck them in out of the way or better still fold them over and put a big plaster over the top to get them right out the way so no ends are left dangling , remember for most people you 're doing this for they 'll probably be returning to their place of work , okay , so they need to be safe to return to work , everybody okay on that lot ? |
| 27 | Perhaps : will probably be saying to yourself ‘ 4 + 6 — 10 ; + 9 = 19 … ’ and so on . |
| 28 | ‘ Look , I 'd much rather be talking to you than … ’ |
| 29 | Yeah you ca n't really be listening to what I 'm saying cos you cos I have n't finished yet . |
| 30 | So I 'd tell people that I should n't really be listening to them , and they 'd get quite upset … |