Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [v-ing] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | At one point he inserts the comment , ‘ you will want cause and effect ’ , as a prelude to a ludicrously far-fetched explanation of what has been happening to a character in one of the text 's interstices ( Pynchon 1975a : 663 ) . |
2 | But I might have been speaking to a corpse , she was so pale and still and silent . |
3 | A close friend said last night : ‘ The agony for Graham will have been coming to a decision with Brenda . |
4 | Ellwood could have been talking to a simpleton . |
5 | And yet in the same lecture he had expressed his belief that the tradition of which he spoke was drawing to a close ; and , in the poem , the encounter with the familiar but only half-glimpsed figure is charged with a sense of transitoriness and loss : |
6 | One is left wondering whether it was a dream or one really had been listening to a man whose clothes and surroundings were obviously of little importance but who knew more Latin and Greek than one ever had , could quote the classics and poetry , would have one lost in the depths of philosophy , someone who was probably in a Gaelic world of his own and was translating into English for the benefit of his listener although the learning had largely been gathered in that language . |
7 | I had been listening to a lot of songs in very different styles , quite consciously , to try to get a little more inspiration for when we went into the studio . |
8 | If she had been speaking to a school friend she would have called Brian Daddy but this was not acceptable to Jasper . |
9 | Prices had been driven up 125 per cent since 1914 and the wave of nation-wide strikes and industrial unrest that had been coming to a head on the eve of the great conflict , burst into flame . |
10 | That would have made an impression at a literary party , but the old trout just replied , ‘ Silly boy , I do n't think you 've been listening to a word I said ! ’ |
11 | ‘ I 've been talking to a lot of people . ’ |
12 | It 's er just what 's been happening to a lot of folk , sinus trouble . |