Example sentences of "have [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 | We 'd all been listening to things like reggae and Spanish music , and when we got together to rehearse , we 'd be playing all kinds of crazy stuff before we settled down to get serious . ’ |
| 13 | I 'd just been talking to the guard , twelve hour shifts , sixty hours a week and he ca n't even have any time off for tea breaks or meal breaks . |
| 14 | ‘ The situation has been eased slightly for my parents since a community nurse has been visiting Jennifer , but I must admit I 'd rapidly been coming to the conclusion that something else would be needed very soon . |
| 15 | In those few minutes she 'd simply been reacting to the mood he 'd created so skilfully . |
| 16 | Wh erm Terry 's feelings there do they you 've obviously been speaking to large numbers of protestors do they marry with the other opinions that you hear ? |
| 17 | They 've all been listening to the trainer . |
| 18 | ‘ But you 've only been talking to them for a little while ! ’ said Angalo . |
| 19 | She had apparently been travelling to Godstowe and must therefore have been expected . |
| 20 | Another thing , perhaps , we should notice right at the very beginning is that Jesus did n't actually speak in pa , in in er , in chapters , and they 've lost , they 've been put in for our convenience , and chapter fifteen is not the beginning of a new incident Jesus had already been speaking to the people , he had been teaching them in chapter fourteen . |
| 21 | And , the greatest guilt of all , if she had not been in Maisie 's house … if Maisie had not been tending to the birthing … then the fire would not have happened and that darling woman would be alive today . |
| 22 | Two years ago , before he received an honorary doctorate at Stirling University , he told The Scotsman that the researchers had not been speaking to each other . |
| 23 | Dougal had not been listening to her for at least a minute . |
| 24 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 25 | took the first call , but I 've just been speaking to him , and you 'd better have the full picture . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 've just been speaking to my sister . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've just been speaking to Drewer , ’ rapped Naylor . |
| 28 | ‘ By the way , I 've just been listening to the news . |
| 29 | Oh I 've just been listening to your conversation with Dennis and Iris . |
| 30 | Then that particular Saturday , Leith 's outgoing if slightly irresponsible brother had come to tell her excitedly , ‘ I 've just been chatting to Rosemary Green ! ’ |