Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the pilot 's seat Bill has been listening to the conversation behind him . |
| 2 | Lt Col Stewart has been reporting to the UN on some of the dreadful conditions suffered by refugees at the front-line town of Maglaj , where he said the situation was ‘ disgraceful . ’ |
| 3 | For 40 years the North Warren Fen , between Aldeburgh and Thorpeness , has been succumbing to the advances of dominant vegetation and specialised reedbed bird species such as bittern , bearded tit and marsh harrier have suffered as a result . |
| 4 | Harold Lock has been coming to the pool since he was a child and says it would be a crime to close it down . |
| 5 | Labour 's deputy leader has been saying to the councils , ’ You may not get as much as you want , but you will certainly get more . ’ |
| 6 | Her salary has been growing to the point where she feels she can afford to buy a home and it promises to climb much further over the next few years . |
| 7 | She has been talking to the Seniors about working on Saturdays . |
| 8 | Robin Powell has been talking to an Oxfordshire woman just elected , who takes a less optimistic view . |
| 9 | ‘ CCG has been responding to the implications of the Act since its publication last year . |
| 10 | At one point he inserts the comment , ‘ you will want cause and effect ’ , as a prelude to a ludicrously far-fetched explanation of what has been happening to a character in one of the text 's interstices ( Pynchon 1975a : 663 ) . |
| 11 | Third To make the public aware of what has been happening to the badger . |
| 12 | The fact that my innocent inquiry had provoked such a defensive , almost hostile response got me thinking about what has been happening to the labour force since the mid-1970s . |
| 13 | and Peter came in the morning , I never thought anything I 'd been listening to the radio , I heard there was a big accident on the road , a car accident |
| 14 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |
| 15 | You must have been listening to the B.B.C. or something . ’ |
| 16 | And it gets in your hair and it gets in your clothes , she must have been listening to the television . |
| 17 | But I might have been speaking to a corpse , she was so pale and still and silent . |
| 18 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 19 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with and what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 20 | But perhaps Governor Clinton 's most remarkable achievement will have been bringing to an end the Reagan-Bush years . |
| 21 | The Rhodesia Metals case was referred to in the Hang Seng Bank case [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 306 and it follows that when Lord Bridge used the words ‘ place where the property was let ’ he must have been referring to the place where the property let was situated and not to the place or places where the lease happened to have been signed . |
| 22 | A close friend said last night : ‘ The agony for Graham will have been coming to a decision with Brenda . |
| 23 | A Royal Ulster Constabulary spokesman said : ‘ Although he may have been coming to the end of his racing career , he was potentially valuable for stud purposes . ’ |
| 24 | In Imperial Gothic he should have been praying to the God-Emperor for help . |
| 25 | Martin and Roberts ( 1984 , pp. 11–12 ) found that older women , many of whom would not have been contributing to the state pension scheme in their own right , tended to leave the labour market in their mid-fifties . |
| 26 | Comparison of ‘ To Lucinda ’ with the first publication of ‘ The Rural Maid 's Reflexions ’ shows that Browne , for whatever reason , changed at least one title , though he may have been returning to the original . |
| 27 | Ellwood could have been talking to a simpleton . |
| 28 | He might have been talking to the sheep when he said softly : |
| 29 | One is left wondering whether it was a dream or one really had been listening to a man whose clothes and surroundings were obviously of little importance but who knew more Latin and Greek than one ever had , could quote the classics and poetry , would have one lost in the depths of philosophy , someone who was probably in a Gaelic world of his own and was translating into English for the benefit of his listener although the learning had largely been gathered in that language . |
| 30 | I had been listening to a lot of songs in very different styles , quite consciously , to try to get a little more inspiration for when we went into the studio . |