Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] had [be] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she had been speaking to a school friend she would have called Brian Daddy but this was not acceptable to Jasper . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So he has got the scrum right , just as if he had been listening to Graham Price all along . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The problem came to a crisis after I had been going to evening classes ( Workers ' Educational Association ) , the subject being psychology . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? ’ |
| 8 | He had spent most of the morning frowning , except when he had been talking to Sir William Paice and others . |
| 9 | 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 . |