Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] have be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So I 've been turning to simpler guitars , guitars that limit you , but that limit you in interesting ways . |
| 2 | ‘ So you 've been chatting to the Earl of Ferngrove , Jill ! ’ |
| 3 | Once you 've been going to the same shops a lot , y'know , just standing around and not buying anything , they get to know you . |
| 4 | He spotted your sign , ’ Vitor said , with a nod towards it , ‘ so he 's been speaking to the locals and asking a few questions . ’ |
| 5 | If I have been fishing to the north of Fetlar , I sometimes take the ‘ inner route ’ back , a rather tortuous passage through the reefs and islets where navigation has to be pretty precise to avoid hitting hidden rocks . |
| 6 | the er the lady that comes to the meetings cos I 've been going to them . |
| 7 | If she 'd been pretending to be busy before , she really was busy now . |
| 8 | If she had been speaking to a school friend she would have called Brian Daddy but this was not acceptable to Jasper . |
| 9 | I will I would say that if you had been speaking to me on the phone , and this is not a criticism of John it 's just a an observation , you would n't be here . |
| 10 | Anyway , if you 've been talking to Betty you know who he is . ’ |
| 11 | I mean , if you 'd been talking to him during the lesson he 'd say , well , if you want to talk about it , leave it till after the lesson . |
| 12 | ’ If you have been attending to it for twenty four years , I came here into this church as a choir boy . ’ |
| 13 | So he has got the scrum right , just as if he had been listening to Graham Price all along . |
| 14 | It was just as well Kenneth 's phone was n't engaged because , presumably , if he 'd been chatting to John Major about the situation in the Middle East , or talking to David Mellor about fun , poor old Johan would have been chucked out of the country . |
| 15 | Erm , if he 's been going to er , erm , in the unlikely , er , twelve months , that it 's unlikely that he 's going to have more than twelve months to live . |
| 16 | Well , to be honest , it seems to , I Peter 's got the details cos he 's been talking to er , the public health clerk . |
| 17 | Cos that 's why I did n't get any when I got my last prescription because I 'd been trying to just sort of even take one |
| 18 | George Underwood : ‘ It was all instigated by David really , because he had been listening to the World Service on the radio and suddenly got the bug to get involved in American Football , and he wrote to the American Embassy asking for more information . |
| 19 | The problem came to a crisis after I had been going to evening classes ( Workers ' Educational Association ) , the subject being psychology . |
| 20 | After I 'd been talking to him about leaving . |
| 21 | Er , my experience is slightly different when erm when I had been trying to sort of recover , I did n't , I did n't feel as if I 've get any help from professionals that I approached . |
| 22 | What k what kind what 's changed in the short time are the things Wh when I 've been talking to them about the publicity you said that , The last few years there 's there has been |
| 23 | Now I can not think of a single occasion over the years , my adulthood when I have been going to theatre arts events of any kind when I 've actually gone out and bought anything as a result of sponsorship of a programme I 've been looking at . |
| 24 | Ven queried , as well he might , she realised , for she 'd been chatting to him like a veritable magpie all evening with not so much as a hint of shyness . |
| 25 | Then , in the same gentle tone she had heard Travis use when he had been speaking to the woman he loved , he murmured , ‘ Leith , my darling , I just ca n't keep it to myself any longer — do you mind ? ’ |
| 26 | He had spent most of the morning frowning , except when he had been talking to Sir William Paice and others . |
| 27 | On their wedding night he was drunk , and she was affectionate and clinging , and it was as hopeless as he had been predicting to himself . |