Example sentences of "been [v-ing] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In those few minutes she 'd simply been reacting to the mood he 'd created so skilfully . |
| 3 | AEA employees have been reacting to the recent announcement about our forthcoming restructuring into three Divisions . |
| 4 | Martin and Roberts ( 1984 , pp. 11–12 ) found that older women , many of whom would not have been contributing to the state pension scheme in their own right , tended to leave the labour market in their mid-fifties . |
| 5 | In Imperial Gothic he should have been praying to the God-Emperor for help . |
| 6 | All over the country , polytechnics and colleges have been applying to the Privy Council for approval of their new titles . |
| 7 | Something very interesting and very clever had been happening to the Direct Line Insurance tournament at Beckenham lately . |
| 8 | This has indeed been happening to the USA , and much of the capital funds moving to the USA have come from Japan . |
| 9 | I 'm gon na start by going back to that graph we looked at first thing this morning which is trying to explain what had been happening to the pattern of tourism , both visitors to this country and visitors moving away from this country in the period nineteen seventy eight to nineteen eighty two . |
| 10 | Now , while this had been happening to the fisherman , his poor dumb wife was left alone in the lonely hut . |
| 11 | The fact that my innocent inquiry had provoked such a defensive , almost hostile response got me thinking about what has been happening to the labour force since the mid-1970s . |
| 12 | Third To make the public aware of what has been happening to the badger . |
| 13 | Comparison of ‘ To Lucinda ’ with the first publication of ‘ The Rural Maid 's Reflexions ’ shows that Browne , for whatever reason , changed at least one title , though he may have been returning to the original . |
| 14 | For some time Leonard had been listening to the music of the day , which he shared with his mother and sister . |
| 15 | George Underwood : ‘ It was all instigated by David really , because he had been listening to the World Service on the radio and suddenly got the bug to get involved in American Football , and he wrote to the American Embassy asking for more information . |
| 16 | You must have been listening to the B.B.C. or something . ’ |
| 17 | Thiercelin , for instance , had no idea of the fact that they had been listening to the work of the greatest composer of the day . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's not your servant , miss , ’ said Zillah , who had been listening to the conversation . |
| 19 | And it gets in your hair and it gets in your clothes , she must have been listening to the television . |
| 20 | Obviously he had been listening to the battle . |
| 21 | ‘ You 've been listening to the hoodoo doctors , ’ he says . |
| 22 | In the pilot 's seat Bill has been listening to the conversation behind him . |
| 23 | She had n't really been listening to the talk last night , but there had been — what ? |
| 24 | The officer commanding the militia had been listening to the conversation between the two men with growing unease . |
| 25 | Has the right hon. and learned Gentleman not been listening to the chorus of demands from the CBI , from the trade unions and now also from a number of Conservative newspapers for an increase in capital allowances for manufacturing industry ? |
| 26 | He had n't been listening to the worried discussions behind him . |
| 27 | ‘ By the way , I 've just been listening to the news . |
| 28 | Loretta turned to find that Geoffrey Simmons had been listening to the conversation . |
| 29 | Ali had been listening to the discussion . |
| 30 | Erm I have n't actually been listening to the programme I was asleep I 've got to be honest . |