Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [v-ing] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
| 2 | Oh she 'd been taking Matthew to work . |
| 3 | Anyway , we kept blowing in , and we must have been doing mouth to mouth for about eighteen er about a mi a minute and a half . |
| 4 | Ali , it turned out , had been sentencing people to death for years . |
| 5 | A spokeswoman said the man had been making door to door calls , asking for donations . |
| 6 | For the first time in such talks the Sudanese People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) , which in previous weeks had been losing ground to government forces throughout southern Sudan , was represented by two independent delegations : the so-called Torit group led by Col. John Garang , and a splinter group supporting Lam Akol , based at the town of Nasir [ for SPLA split see p. 38426 ] . |
| 7 | Microsoft and DEC have been porting NT to Alpha for the last year : conveniently DEC has a facility just a mile away from the Microsoft campus in Belleview , Washington . |
| 8 | Catholic secondary schools in Scotland have been trialing approaches to school internal evaluation through the Catholic Education Commission project : ‘ The Nature of the Catholic School ’ . |