Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] have [be] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So Alexei has been referring to me as his uncle ? ’ |
| 2 | What he does n't seem to know is that Albie had been talking to Carmichael . |
| 3 | She also knew that Bertie had been lying to her over ‘ discontinuing ’ the post . |
| 4 | Puzzling — since it seemed that Yorke had been listening to information he 'd specifically asked for . |
| 5 | Following on from last month , It seems that GeoWorks has been talking to Casio and Tandy about putting its graphical front-end on hand-held computers , slated to compete with the so-far non-existent Apple Newton . |
| 6 | Elizabethan musicians and dancers have been taking to the streets to publicise a meeting between queens from the sixteenth and twentieth century this weekend . |
| 7 | All over the country , polytechnics and colleges have been applying to the Privy Council for approval of their new titles . |
| 8 | Meanwhile at Oakhill Primary School in Dumbleton where Ben Garvey went to school , parents and pupils have been coming to terms with his death . |
| 9 | IBM Corp 's dismantling of the Armonk politburo to follow Chairman Mao 's ‘ Let 100 Flowers Bloom ’ dictum has really let the genie out of the bottle , and Infoworld has been talking to consultants that say the company is planning to enter the tents of the enemy by putting a version of the DB2 database up under Windows NT . |
| 10 | IBM Corp 's dismantling of the Armonk politburo to follow Chairman Mao 's ‘ Let 100 Flowers Bloom ’ dictum has really let the genie out of the bottle , and Infoworld has been talking to consultants that say the company is planning to enter the tents of the enemy by putting a version of the DB2 database up under Windows NT . |
| 11 | It may be a new experience for you — but students have been going to college for at least two-and-a-half thousand years ! |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Is it because you 've taken a stand since Mother 's been taking to her bed ? ’ |
| 15 | The advice was given after Jo had been speaking to both children and their parents ( an audience that included 12 year old Romy Hutchins — a participant in the Challenge — and her father Paul , the former British Davis Cup captain and national team manager ) , in a unique question and answer session which preceded an on court clinic for the 20 or so participating juniors . |