Example sentences of "have [adv] be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Club sailors in the one-design classes have long been proving to one another just who 's best . |
| 2 | ‘ I have just been speaking to Officer Hassan . |
| 3 | As I write , on Easter day , I have just been listening to Matins from King 's college , Cambridge , broadcast on Radio 3 — superb performances of music by William Byrd and a finely engineered sound . |
| 4 | She is simply an older version of the woman you have just been talking to , and so the farce goes into Round Two with defeat for the customer the only possible outcome . |
| 5 | In addition to such major discoveries , many parts of which have not yet been published , other sources have gradually been coming to light or , after long suppression , are being circulated and studied . |
| 6 | The children have both been coming to ballet since they were three and they have loved it . ’ |
| 7 | Conservative leaders have traditionally been accommodating to the major interest and sought compromises . |
| 8 | I have also been listening to this wonderful young singer from Dresden , Olaf Bär . |
| 9 | ‘ I have n't been pretending to be in love with you this weekend . |
| 10 | ‘ You have n't been listening to us . |
| 11 | ’ Oh , Bill , you have n't been listening to a word I said ! ’ |
| 12 | " I know they have n't been coming to class regularly . |
| 13 | As many progressive ( but in reality reactionary ) politicians have recently been finding to their cost , greater freedom of opportunity , so far from furthering equality , has only stimulated emulation and the appetite for symbols of success . |