Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The blackleg buses disappeared off the streets and other vehicles which had been beginning to return to the roads . |
| 2 | Alice 's mother-in-law thought she was going to have an afternoon 's shopping , it was what she liked doing herself , and she believed , without any evidence for this , that Alice had been longing to get to the shops on her own . |
| 3 | I had been planning to go to the Nurburgring for testing the day after the race , but I was told to return to the factory and stop the new car I was building . |
| 4 | Stella , who for a miserable quarter of an hour had been contemplating going to the ladies ' room and not coming back , was suddenly struck by the curiously fragmented nature of the group about the table . |
| 5 | I 've been meaning to write to The Post letter page about it for several years . |
| 6 | The trouble is , I 've been longing to go to the loo for the past hour , and I do n't know how long he 's going to be ! |