Example sentences of "had [adv] be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had apparently been travelling to Godstowe and must therefore have been expected . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Dougal had not been listening to her for at least a minute . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When you and Chantal arrived at that accommodation agency I had just been talking to the proprietor . |
| 8 | Capitalism had always been baffling to Ceauşescu , now his involvement with it was a curse . |
| 9 | Maeve agreed that the old nun had probably been referring to Lady Eleanor 's hands . |
| 10 | He had n't been listening to the worried discussions behind him . |
| 11 | At least he was n't going to pretend he had n't been talking to her . |
| 12 | It was n't that she had n't been talking to Mandy , it was just that she had let her displeasure over that application be felt for an entire week now . |
| 13 | And er er sort of phone call one afternoon at half past four from the deputy , oh by the way , in fact if we had n't been talking to any Brummies on a we would 've been interviewing people and telling them that they 'd got a three year and these are all points that are gon na be brought up next week , but I do n't see there is any possibility of them doing an about turn because they 've gone public on it . |
| 14 | If we had simply been moving to another site we would just roll everything up and take it with us . |
| 15 | And of course Gramps had never left his wife — because he had never been going to , because he had n't been the father ; but that was obviously the story Marie O'Donnell had put about — the story her family believed . |