Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OSF HAS BEEN SUBMITTING MOTIF TO X/OPEN REGULARLY |
| 2 | Gregory , who has been teaching English to Thais for two years , is being held in a women 's prison . |
| 3 | Peter has been delivering yarn to Elderslie since 1946 when he worked with his family 's haulage business before joining Douglas Reyburn . |
| 4 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
| 5 | Oh she 'd been taking Matthew to work . |
| 6 | He would have been supplying booze to restaurants and nightclubs . |
| 7 | Technically , Harvard dealers should not have been selling stock to clients who had not dealt three times with the company , unless they had sent out written information about the stock . |
| 8 | Anyway , we kept blowing in , and we must have been doing mouth to mouth for about eighteen er about a mi a minute and a half . |
| 9 | Ali , it turned out , had been sentencing people to death for years . |
| 10 | Yesterday Mike O'Connor , a Stockton builder who briefly worked with Mr Round early last year , said he had ended their association after learning that his partner had been bouncing cheques to suppliers . |
| 11 | Yesterday Mike O'Connor , a Stockton builder who briefly worked with Mr Round early last year , said he had ended their association after learning that his partner had been bouncing cheques to suppliers . |
| 12 | Meantime , the Parents ' Action Committee had been writing letters to Councillors as well . |
| 13 | South Africa on Sept. 4 denied allegations by Uganda that its leading arms manufacturer Armscor had been supplying weapons to Croatia . |
| 14 | A spokeswoman said the man had been making door to door calls , asking for donations . |
| 15 | When she found that she was pregnant , she turned to her older sister for help , and since the O'Dells knew that Mr Marriner had been paying court to Moira , they assumed he was responsible for her condition . |
| 16 | For the first time in such talks the Sudanese People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) , which in previous weeks had been losing ground to government forces throughout southern Sudan , was represented by two independent delegations : the so-called Torit group led by Col. John Garang , and a splinter group supporting Lam Akol , based at the town of Nasir [ for SPLA split see p. 38426 ] . |
| 17 | I 've been writing cheques to Rob Thomas . |
| 18 | We 've been lending money to individuals for over 50 years so we 're certainly experienced in keeping our customers satisfied . |
| 19 | Microsoft and DEC have been porting NT to Alpha for the last year : conveniently DEC has a facility just a mile away from the Microsoft campus in Belleview , Washington . |
| 20 | Danish dairies have been shipping butter to Britain for over 100 years . |
| 21 | For the last 60 years we have been organising holidays to Italy , and only to Italy . |
| 22 | Production finished at the end of May and since then , as you know , we have been moving broadlooms to Elderslie and some narrow looms to Runcorn . |
| 23 | Fire fighters from across the country have been paying tribute to airmen who were killed in the second world war . |
| 24 | Terrapins have been left here and in similar ponds around the country by bored pet owners for years , but the numbers have been growing thanks to children who have tired of the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtle craze that led them to buy terrapins in the first place . |
| 25 | Farm animals in the area contaminated by radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986 have been giving birth to offspring with major birth defects . |
| 26 | As those Hon. Members who were in Committee know , I have been giving advice to Strathtay , which is the current Scottish Bus Group company , and to Stagecoach , both of which operate in my constituency . |
| 27 | Catholic secondary schools in Scotland have been trialing approaches to school internal evaluation through the Catholic Education Commission project : ‘ The Nature of the Catholic School ’ . |
| 28 | In a desperate effort to camouflage falling rents and values landlords have been offering inducements to tenants . |