Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jerry refuses with zest ; he has obviously been springing to his own defence for many a long year . |
| 2 | The right hon. Gentleman has not been listening to his hon. Friends . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Astra has already been talking to officials of the Commons about its planned service , based on the American C-Span cable network , which performs a similar function . |
| 5 | McDunn nods slowly , slightly , a distant look in his eyes like he 's not really nodding at what I 've just told him ; has n't been listening to a word I 've said , in fact . |
| 6 | She has n't been coming to school , Mrs Day . |
| 7 | I mean how can you justify talking to her about that when the efficiency is improved since she has n't been talking to people ? |
| 8 | He has n't been talking to anybody has he ? |
| 9 | This has indeed been happening to the USA , and much of the capital funds moving to the USA have come from Japan . |
| 10 | Section 2.2 explores different definitions of deindustrialization , looking at each of them in the context of data on what has actually been happening to manufacturing in this country over recent decades . |
| 11 | Erm , and has recently been going to dress-making classes , but she nothing to anybody at work . |
| 12 | But it says tomorrow 's going to be fine . |
| 13 | looking after the littlest ones all day and and she 's obviously been speaking to them like that during |
| 14 | TIGHT-LIPS Taylor to-morrow meets the Press he 's not been speaking to . |
| 15 | Because she 's not been going to the first aid room . |
| 16 | So far as I can tell , and that 's not as far as I 'd like , on the last few Fridays he 's not been going to any other bank or finance house . |
| 17 | And all that houses here are waiting to be sold and nobody seems to want , poor old house is getting |