Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] to [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But like you , he has been talking to my shipping office in Monaco and learns that there has been no communication for four days . |
| 2 | The crowd seemed to be getting a little impatient just before the goal ( as I 'm sure we all were listening to it on the radio ) but can you imagine what the scum crowd would ahve been doing to their team if they had n't scored within twenty minutes ? |
| 3 | They knew we 'd been talking to their pop idols and they just wanted to touch us . |
| 4 | The publican replied that he 'd been talking to his dog . |
| 5 | And she 'd been coming to our house , Oh about fie or six years , and she said one day to Mary , that 's my wife , says you know , Not strange name , there 's not many of them about . |
| 6 | How many of these songs could she have been singing to her daddy ? |
| 7 | But by a proud assertion of " independence " , an eighteenth-century artisan more likely would have been referring to his ability to maintain a wife and family at a proper standard without recourse to charity or poor relief . |
| 8 | His comment also meant that he had been listening to her conversation with the receptionist in Dublin — because he had still been bored ? |
| 9 | ‘ I told you not to bother , ’ Ellen said disparagingly as she climbed the main companionway , and I guessed that she had been listening to my conversation with Billingsley by standing just under the saloon skylight which was propped open . |
| 10 | The officer 's life was ‘ almost certainly ’ saved by the fact that one bullet became embedded in a radio handset he had been holding to his ear . |
| 11 | His life had almost certainly been saved by the fact that one bullet had hit a radio handset he had been holding to his ear . |
| 12 | Lady Bell said her son had been returning to his Land Rover , parked on the opposite side of the road to the farm . |
| 13 | And er an interesting thing had been coming to our house She comes goes to the same church . |
| 14 | I 've been listening to your programme all morning so . |
| 15 | If you 're opting for a perm or colour , always tell your hairdresser what you 've been doing to your hair . |
| 16 | ‘ You 've been talking to my wife . |
| 17 | ‘ David Mellor and his family have been coming to my restaurant for 18 years and they are my very good friends , ’ says Moziruddin . |
| 18 | Is it because you 've taken a stand since Mother 's been taking to her bed ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Both worrying about the troubles of the world and how to cure them , but John 's been talking to his dad about this Spanish business and other things and he 'll work things out soon . ’ |