Example sentences of "been [v-ing] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after that Pete had sworn that he 'd touch nothing stronger than tapwater for the rest of the evening , and so far he 'd been sticking to it . |
| 2 | How many of these songs could she have been singing to her daddy ? |
| 3 | Visible ideas are signs and indications of tangible ideas , and have a constant and universal connection with them which was ‘ learnt at our first entrance into the world ; and ever since , almost every moment of our lives , it has been occurring to our thoughts , and fastening and striking deeper on our minds . ’ |
| 4 | Ask the Holy Spirit to give you the strength and resolve to follow God 's will in whatever he has been revealing to you . |
| 5 | I had kept all the abuse that had been happening to me very much to myself — it seemed to me that I must have been very bad . |
| 6 | A lot of personal things had been happening to me during that year . |
| 7 | This has been happening to me , just the same . |
| 8 | The big question was : Who is this girl — and what has been happening to her ? |
| 9 | The big question was : Who is this girl — and what has been happening to her ? |
| 10 | When I go past , I wonder what has been happening to her in the intervening years , and that 's very odd . ’ |
| 11 | None of what 's been happening to her lately has sat well with her temperament . |
| 12 | What 's been happening to you ? |
| 13 | ‘ So he 's the one behind everything that 's been happening to you recently . ’ |
| 14 | He remained silent , watching her , and her embarrassment grew until in the end she set her glass down with a bang and in desperation said , ‘ So are you going to tell me what 's been happening to you in the last five years ? ’ |
| 15 | You 've no idea what 's been happening to us ! ’ she said , before suddenly bursting into a storm of tears . |
| 16 | Jesus had been , with his disciples and he had spent the whole day in teaching and preaching to the people , he 'd been explaining to them what the kingdom of God was like , he 'd been telling them some of the parables that perhaps we 're familiar with , he 'd been telling them about the parable of the sewer and the seed , the man who went out and he sewed his seed and different things went wrong birds came and picked up the stuff that fell by the wayside , some fell on stony ground and it could n't put down any roots , some fell amongst thorns and they were quickly choked , but some did fall in good prepared soil and that grew . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Most of the men on the plane would have been returning to their families and civilian life in the near future but , alas , they died on a remote and desolate Ayrshire hillside before they had seen their homes and families again . |
| 19 | Lady Bell said her son had been returning to his Land Rover , parked on the opposite side of the road to the farm . |
| 20 | And he was glad to have an excuse to put off telling her the news that he 'd been keeping to himself . |
| 21 | But to my mind the boy could begin by showing more respect altogether to people like your father who have been listening to what the League says about the problems of the land and the bosses and the conditions of the men and women who work on it . |
| 22 | As for The Roches , we 've been big , big fans of theirs since way back — I 've been listening to them since I was about 13 . |
| 23 | ‘ I know the civil liberties people will not like it , but to some degree they have got us into this mess and we have been listening to them for too long , ’ said Mr Gallie . |
| 24 | Maisie Dougall had been listening to her friends going on and she thought it was about time she made a contribution . |
| 25 | His comment also meant that he had been listening to her conversation with the receptionist in Dublin — because he had still been bored ? |
| 26 | Dougal had not been listening to her for at least a minute . |
| 27 | Iain Logan had been listening to him as though fascinated by the stress of experience which had lengthened Cameron 's face and closed his black brows over his eyes . |
| 28 | She 'd been listening to him with dawning realisation , an icy sensation freezing her body inch by inch . |
| 29 | As the hon. Gentleman introduced the subject of colour of dress , I can only say that I have been listening to him for almost 18 years and I wish that he would sometimes change the colour of his tie . |
| 30 | He was n't going for a joy trip , he was n't going out in the boat just to se to while away an hour or so to relax and to unwind , he was n't going there to , just to get away from the crowd of people that had been following him and had been listening to him , he had a purpose in going in into the boat , to go to the other side . |