Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The claim is sometimes made of a lack of continuity in policy which has been damaging to growth : in particular , that political changes have inhibited consistent action by civil servants . |
| 2 | Well in the last hour reporter Claire Lafferty has been speaking to Martin Frears ' father in Cheltenham . |
| 3 | NORMA Major has been listening to Jarvis 's Frayn , the latest cassette recording from actor Martin Jarvis , on her car cassette . |
| 4 | It has been suggesting to UNTAC , the UN authority in Cambodia , whose mandate requires it to stay until the elected assembly writes and enacts a constitution , that the election was rigged in the places ( like the capital , Phnom Penh ) where the CPP did worst . |
| 5 | Stanley has been going to Scourie for more than twenty years and knows every single blade of grass and stone , by name ; he can take you to a loch and point out precisely where you will catch fish and where you wo n't , to the inch , and Stanley is never wrong . |
| 6 | Terry Major , 59 , has been going to Butlin 's at Bognor Regis in West Sussex for 20 years . |
| 7 | Philip Jones Griffiths , a Magnum photographer who has been going to Vietnam for 23 years , say , s ‘ We used to joke that you can take the photographer out of Vietnam but not Vietnam out of the photographer ’ . |
| 8 | She has been going to therapy since she was about two . ’ |
| 9 | Immediately before this extract , speaker B ( female , 50+ , aunt of speaker A ) has been describing to speaker A ( female , 20+ ) the first type of radio she had , forty years before . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been thinking , ’ said Melissa while Iris ladled out dollops of home-made fruit yoghurt , ‘ whoever has been coming to Angy 's class and calling herself Delia Forbes must know the real Delia is away . ’ |
| 11 | DAVID WALMSLEY has been talking to Ulster 's faces of the future . |
| 12 | Mr Perelman has been talking to Shearson and its parent , American Express , about buying a 20 per cent shareholding in the broking business . |
| 13 | The Home Secretary has been talking to Peter Murphy about the siege and the efforts to end it . |
| 14 | IBM Corp 's dismantling of the Armonk politburo to follow Chairman Mao 's ‘ Let 100 Flowers Bloom ’ dictum has really let the genie out of the bottle , and Infoworld has been talking to consultants that say the company is planning to enter the tents of the enemy by putting a version of the DB2 database up under Windows NT . |
| 15 | IBM Corp 's dismantling of the Armonk politburo to follow Chairman Mao 's ‘ Let 100 Flowers Bloom ’ dictum has really let the genie out of the bottle , and Infoworld has been talking to consultants that say the company is planning to enter the tents of the enemy by putting a version of the DB2 database up under Windows NT . |
| 16 | Childrens World marketing communications controller John Forester says he has been talking to agencies with the knowledge of the incumbent GGT and insists there is no review of the Sears-owned business . |
| 17 | The Mercury One-2-One Ltd digital cellular joint venture between Cable & Wireless Plc and US West Inc has been talking to Reuters , and says it is not seeking to trigger a price war with Cellnet Mobile Communications Ltd and Vodafone Group Plc . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Rebecca Marston has been talking to Ken Schwarz , Director of Development at the company who 've published the figures on executives pay . |
| 20 | Frank Strandli has been talking to Howard Wilkinson about his future at Elland Road . |
| 21 | For several weeks , Apple Computer Inc has been showing to developers prototypes of those two new high-end computers that according to US PC Week could create a breakthrough in performance and multimedia capabilities . |
| 22 | He used some statistics about what has been happening to jobs and businesses recently . |
| 23 | It was just as well Kenneth 's phone was n't engaged because , presumably , if he 'd been chatting to John Major about the situation in the Middle East , or talking to David Mellor about fun , poor old Johan would have been chucked out of the country . |
| 24 | And he 'd known it , all the time he 'd been trying to bed her . |
| 25 | She 'd thought at the time — fleetingly , without really dwelling on it — that he 'd been referring to Arnie with these remarks . |
| 26 | I told him I 'd been talking to Richie . |
| 27 | Of course , he 'd been talking to Maria Luisa ; he had nothing to say to Steve . |
| 28 | We 'd been moaning to Malcolm about wanting to play some gigs . |
| 29 | ‘ No , you came here wanting to know what I 'd been saying to Mr Kronweiser today . ’ |
| 30 | A TRIAL was halted yesterday after complaints that magistrates had fallen asleep when they should have been listening to evidence . |