Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [be] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lt Col Stewart has been reporting to the UN on some of the dreadful conditions suffered by refugees at the front-line town of Maglaj , where he said the situation was ‘ disgraceful . ’ |
| 2 | Harold Lock has been coming to the pool since he was a child and says it would be a crime to close it down . |
| 3 | Mr. Edmonds has been talking to himself for years … now everyone listens |
| 4 | The head told me that Mrs Singh had been coming to school regularly to express concern about Balbinder 's lack of progress . |
| 5 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA had been looking to 1992 as a year of recovery , but that was not quite the way things turned out , and after provisions , the French state-owned company saw even worse figures than in 1991 , losses equivalent to $847m at the current $0.18 rate of exchange compared with $595m a year ago . |
| 6 | David Lyell had been returning to Britain from Carolina as a member of the crew of a merchant vessel when his ship was intercepted by a cruiser and he was impressed for service in an undermanned warship . |
| 7 | Kevin Kline 's been chatting to John Miller about working with a great actor — himself ! |
| 8 | Robin Powell has been talking to an Oxfordshire woman just elected , who takes a less optimistic view . |
| 9 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 10 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 11 | ‘ So Alexei has been referring to me as his uncle ? ’ |
| 12 | It started to get out of proportion in that he , Ray has been talking to him about the impact of the summer season in Scarborough in terms of how long it takes his staff to get from A to B. |
| 13 | What he does n't seem to know is that Albie had been talking to Carmichael . |
| 14 | Jane 's been talking to Paul about it and he 's being very non committal because of this Y T S T M review |
| 15 | Frank Strandli has been talking to Howard Wilkinson about his future at Elland Road . |
| 16 | Mrs Grandison followed her apprehensively into one of those ubiquitous tea-shops which cater for the multitudes of office workers and others who want a cheap meal at any time of the day , and which , excellent though they are , can hardly be compared with the restaurants Mrs Grandison had been hoping to lunch in . |
| 17 | She also knew that Bertie had been lying to her over ‘ discontinuing ’ the post . |
| 18 | Maisie Dougall had been listening to her friends going on and she thought it was about time she made a contribution . |
| 19 | Well in the last hour reporter Claire Lafferty has been speaking to Martin Frears ' father in Cheltenham . |
| 20 | Di Driver had been coming to my classes for some time and she knew I was appearing on the programme but I had no idea that she planned on paying me a visit ‘ on air ’ . |
| 21 | The advice was given after Jo had been speaking to both children and their parents ( an audience that included 12 year old Romy Hutchins — a participant in the Challenge — and her father Paul , the former British Davis Cup captain and national team manager ) , in a unique question and answer session which preceded an on court clinic for the 20 or so participating juniors . |
| 22 | Ali had been listening to the discussion . |
| 23 | Puzzling — since it seemed that Yorke had been listening to information he 'd specifically asked for . |
| 24 | I was asking you about the guy Adam 's been talking to this evening . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ CCG has been responding to the implications of the Act since its publication last year . |
| 26 | Mr Perelman has been talking to Shearson and its parent , American Express , about buying a 20 per cent shareholding in the broking business . |
| 27 | Following on from last month , It seems that GeoWorks has been talking to Casio and Tandy about putting its graphical front-end on hand-held computers , slated to compete with the so-far non-existent Apple Newton . |
| 28 | Mrs O had been chatting to a close friend for over an hour . |
| 29 | For some time Leonard had been listening to the music of the day , which he shared with his mother and sister . |
| 30 | Coleman had been lecturing to officers of the army medical staff at Woolwich , and Dr Rollo and the officers of the medical staff signed a memorial , suggesting Coleman 's appointment as veterinary surgeon to the Ordnance . |