Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |
| 2 | Since then , police have been listening in to the frequency used by the gang . |
| 3 | I have been listening in to the E-Mail for some weeks , and in fact even coming in on weekend to pick up the results and comments . |
| 4 | Then they had been sinking on to the bed and , between kisses and caresses , peeling the clothes hungrily from one another , until at last they lay naked , side by side . |
| 5 | All morning it has been calm but now we are threatened by a storm that has been brewing out to the west . |
| 6 | Early on Monday evening Wickham tossed the papers he had been scanning on to the desk and stood up . |
| 7 | Also there were the people who 'd been coming in to the shop when it was still Let It Rock . |
| 8 | The only way this impinged on the message Macmillan had been taking up to the generals in the front-line was that they might now have to prepare even more urgently for military operations to reinforce allied policy . |
| 9 | He could have been plummeting down to the centre of the earth , in a submarine nudging over the seabed or flying soundlessly through outer space . |