Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To put you on stand-by for the grunt'n'groan grapplers , The Daily Mirror has been speaking to two family rivals — British Bulldog and Bret ‘ Hit Man ’ Hart . |
| 2 | If you read a few er , verses , a chapter or so earlier on , he had been speaking to one man to a er er a high official from Ethiopia , and he had been sharing with him from Isaiah chapter fifty three , the message of Jesus Christ . |
| 3 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
| 4 | The two cousins had been writing to each other in secret for several weeks , and Cathy had used the milkman as a messenger . |
| 5 | It dealt with something about which I had been writing to Social Security Ministers for about six months — abuse of the benefit-in-kind regulations , whereby highly paid people were paying themselves in gilt unit trusts . |
| 6 | When he did not return for quite a while , she guessed they had been talking to each other about her . |
| 7 | We 've been writing to each other for eight years but had never met until this year . |
| 8 | I 've been going to Glorious Goodwood for twenty years — and invariably play golf while I 'm there . |
| 9 | I know he 's been doing to this man as he 's gone past so Harry sitting there the not saying you know . |
| 10 | I was asking you about the guy Adam 's been talking to this evening . ’ |
| 11 | As a producer , MacCabe is naturally enough dismayed by this pro-directorial bias : ‘ If you look at what 's been happening to British cinema over the last 10 years or so , then it 's clear that it has tended to be production-led — names like Working Title , Palace Films or Zenith are as important as those of any individual director . |