Example sentences of "[noun] have be [v-ing] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ His department has been saying to us in recent weeks that we could not have the classrooms and toilets we need because there are empty places in other schools . |
| 2 | Mr. Edmonds has been talking to himself for years … now everyone listens |
| 3 | ‘ So Alexei has been referring to me as his uncle ? ’ |
| 4 | It started to get out of proportion in that he , Ray has been talking to him about the impact of the summer season in Scarborough in terms of how long it takes his staff to get from A to B. |
| 5 | She also knew that Bertie had been lying to her over ‘ discontinuing ’ the post . |
| 6 | Maisie Dougall had been listening to her friends going on and she thought it was about time she made a contribution . |
| 7 | You see , I refrain from outlining just what this gentleman has been saying to me — about you all . |
| 8 | Di Driver had been coming to my classes for some time and she knew I was appearing on the programme but I had no idea that she planned on paying me a visit ‘ on air ’ . |
| 9 | A lot of personal things had been happening to me during that year . |
| 10 | In addition to the British Standards updating service which the Library and Information Service have been offering to their customers , they are now in a position to offer an updating service for standards from other National and International Standard Bodies . |
| 11 | Rachel had become so lost in her thoughts that she suddenly realised her father had been talking to her and she had n't heard a word . |
| 12 | A woman had been talking to him , but she had gone away . |
| 13 | County are in danger of suffering their second relegation in successive seasons , and Pavis said : ‘ People have been writing to me asking when I 'm going to sack the manager . ’ |
| 14 | Understand what Free People have been doing to me . |
| 15 | ‘ People have been coming to me and saying ‘ He 's drinking , you know . ’ ' |
| 16 | Also , people have been saying to me , ‘ My brother 's girlfriend 's aunt says that she spoke to someone who saw you on ‘ News at Ten ’ the other day ! ’ |
| 17 | People have been talking to him about sickness and that if an office has erm people that are off sick a lot more than another office they 're at a disadvantage . |
| 18 | ‘ I can see that your uncle has been talking to you about us , ’ Sophie said drily , ‘ but you do n't understand . |
| 19 | For the past half-hour the little man had been giggling to himself as he stropped a Buck knife razor-sharp on the inside of his belt . |
| 20 | Anxious readers of the Daily Telegraph have been writing to me in their thousands to ask : what happens to these celebrities in the event of a hung parliament ? |
| 21 | And er an interesting thing had been coming to our house She comes goes to the same church . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | but you see Joyce has been saying to us |
| 24 | To everybody , I walked round the site with Paul and and Stuart last Friday because Paul had been whingeing to me about erm twenty five K G palletizing and the fact that they were n't they were n't properly packed as it were . |
| 25 | Tufted ducks have been flocking to our ponds in unusual numbers , writes James O'Hagan |
| 26 | Roger 's been complaining to me |
| 27 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 28 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 29 | Lady Bell said her son had been returning to his Land Rover , parked on the opposite side of the road to the farm . |
| 30 | Is it because you 've taken a stand since Mother 's been taking to her bed ? ’ |