Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] [v-ing] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Open Software Foundation has apparently been submitting Motif to X/Open Co Ltd on a regular six monthly basis over the last three or four years , sources are saying . |
| 2 | The Scottish Office has also been giving consideration to reforming school inspection teams , so that members of the public will always be involved . |
| 3 | A contributor to the Funeral Service Journal who declares himself to be ‘ a devoted and qualified embalmer and tutor ’ is a funeral director who has recently been giving advice to readers . |
| 4 | But Marie , although she had not been paying attention to his words , had been thinking , her mind wandering off along a track of its own . |
| 5 | What I did n't say was that I had n't been making love to her but to Alison , taking her from behind on the kitchen table , her rump high in the air and her toes squirming helplessly an inch or two off the floor . |