Example sentences of "[noun] have [adv] [be] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , the greatest guilt of all , if she had not been in Maisie 's house … if Maisie had not been tending to the birthing … then the fire would not have happened and that darling woman would be alive today . |
| 2 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 3 | Astra has already been talking to officials of the Commons about its planned service , based on the American C-Span cable network , which performs a similar function . |
| 4 | Capitalism had always been baffling to Ceauşescu , now his involvement with it was a curse . |
| 5 | Club sailors in the one-design classes have long been proving to one another just who 's best . |
| 6 | The right hon. Gentleman has not been listening to his hon. Friends . |
| 7 | Another thing , perhaps , we should notice right at the very beginning is that Jesus did n't actually speak in pa , in in er , in chapters , and they 've lost , they 've been put in for our convenience , and chapter fifteen is not the beginning of a new incident Jesus had already been speaking to the people , he had been teaching them in chapter fourteen . |
| 8 | In addition to such major discoveries , many parts of which have not yet been published , other sources have gradually been coming to light or , after long suppression , are being circulated and studied . |
| 9 | Maeve agreed that the old nun had probably been referring to Lady Eleanor 's hands . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Conservative leaders have traditionally been accommodating to the major interest and sought compromises . |
| 12 | The children have both been coming to ballet since they were three and they have loved it . ’ |
| 13 | Two years ago , before he received an honorary doctorate at Stirling University , he told The Scotsman that the researchers had not been speaking to each other . |
| 14 | Dougal had not been listening to her for at least a minute . |
| 15 | As many progressive ( but in reality reactionary ) politicians have recently been finding to their cost , greater freedom of opportunity , so far from furthering equality , has only stimulated emulation and the appetite for symbols of success . |