Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] to " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I hear you 've been talking to my Hilda and young Ralph . ’
2 ‘ I hear you 've been talking to our friends in Manila , ’ he says , chattily , as though the difference in our rank means nothing to him .
3 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 .
4 This seemingly symbiotic link has been damaging to the more general applicability of these criteria in other contexts .
5 Dirk has been farming to biodynamic and organic principles at Busses Farm since 1978 and holds the Soil Association Symbol on the milk from his dairy herd and yoghurt .
6 To put you on stand-by for the grunt'n'groan grapplers , The Daily Mirror has been speaking to two family rivals — British Bulldog and Bret ‘ Hit Man ’ Hart .
7 ‘ It has been speaking to me all my life — ’
8 Well in the last hour reporter Claire Lafferty has been speaking to Martin Frears ' father in Cheltenham .
9 Le-eyo was distinguished by an error which mankind has been trying to right ever since .
10 Inevitably we have n't held er er they have n't been able to hold up that new members this year and er the main job has been trying to er keep quite a number of the members who were recruited er to the gen following er the general election .
11 The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them .
12 The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them .
13 NORMA Major has been listening to Jarvis 's Frayn , the latest cassette recording from actor Martin Jarvis , on her car cassette .
14 In the pilot 's seat Bill has been listening to the conversation behind him .
15 Gill Hill , who has been seeing to the social side of things , organised an outing to the Crystal Palace Reunion for members from Hatfield , Hemel Hempstead , St. Albans and Harpenden , and another to Sadlers Wells Theatre for the ballet enthusiasts .
16 Has been writing to big businesses for money to help their funds .
17 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 .
18 ‘ So Alexei has been referring to me as his uncle ? ’
19 Lt Col Stewart has been reporting to the UN on some of the dreadful conditions suffered by refugees at the front-line town of Maglaj , where he said the situation was ‘ disgraceful . ’
20 Ask the Holy Spirit to give you the strength and resolve to follow God 's will in whatever he has been revealing to you .
21 Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale .
22 Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale .
23 For 40 years the North Warren Fen , between Aldeburgh and Thorpeness , has been succumbing to the advances of dominant vegetation and specialised reedbed bird species such as bittern , bearded tit and marsh harrier have suffered as a result .
24 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 .
25 She has been going to therapy since she was about two . ’
26 Terry Major , 59 , has been going to Butlin 's at Bognor Regis in West Sussex for 20 years .
27 Wilkie claims some existing success in the OEM markets : for the past two years , he says , a ‘ not insignificant ’ proportion of disk drive output has been going to nameless OEM customers .
28 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 ’ .
29 Two fundamental trends are at work : employee numbers are being gradually but drastically reduced — the Army alone is facing a 30 per cent by 1995 ; and all three services are coming to terms with their obligation to ‘ market test ’ support services with the result that a steady trickle of contracts has been going to the private sector since the early 80s .
30 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 .
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