Example sentences of "been [v-ing] to [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gill Hill , who has been seeing to the social side of things , organised an outing to the Crystal Palace Reunion for members from Hatfield , Hemel Hempstead , St. Albans and Harpenden , and another to Sadlers Wells Theatre for the ballet enthusiasts . |
| 2 | AEA employees have been reacting to the recent announcement about our forthcoming restructuring into three Divisions . |
| 3 | All over the country , polytechnics and colleges have been applying to the Privy Council for approval of their new titles . |
| 4 | Something very interesting and very clever had been happening to the Direct Line Insurance tournament at Beckenham lately . |
| 5 | He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station . |
| 6 | A few moments later , acquitted defendant Daniel Winter , who 'd been listening to the closing speeches , ran from the building . |
| 7 | It was the Russians they 'd been listening to the whole lot . |
| 8 | He had n't been listening to the worried discussions behind him . |
| 9 | A woman who 's been writing to a convicted killer facing the gas chamber in America is to visit him on Death Row . |
| 10 | Because she 's not been going to the first aid room . |
| 11 | Two fundamental trends are at work : employee numbers are being gradually but drastically reduced — the Army alone is facing a 30 per cent by 1995 ; and all three services are coming to terms with their obligation to ‘ market test ’ support services with the result that a steady trickle of contracts has been going to the private sector since the early 80s . |
| 12 | Once you 've been going to the same shops a lot , y'know , just standing around and not buying anything , they get to know you . |
| 13 | The report focused on a United States pharmaceutical company , Velsicol Chemical Corporation , which had been exporting to the Third World large quantities of chlordane and heptachlor , " two of the most highly toxic persistent and bio-accumulative insecticides ever made " according to the report . |
| 14 | But in his heart he knew that he had been speaking to a troubled spirit , a spirit that had something terrible to confess . |
| 15 | The girl , who had been clinging to a third-floor window ledge , fell just as firemen were about to grab her . |
| 16 | ‘ When he did so , he would have been holding to an instinctive belief that the signal behind him would inevitably have gone to red . |
| 17 | Sheriff 's Deputy Mark Ray said Salata had been coming to the secure Polo Club development , where 23-year-old Steffi has a home , at least three times a day for three days in an attempt to see her . |
| 18 | The film has been showing to an empty room . |
| 19 | The other monkeys might have been responding to a visual signal or they may have seen the leopard themselves . |
| 20 | He had been talking to a tall girl with white-blonde hair , but suddenly he turned his head slightly and looked straight at Maria , and every muscle in her body clenched in furious , shocked resistance . |
| 21 | Been talking to a few folk , a nice woman from New Zealand , and some Glasgow lads , and an incredibly chatty pseudo-zealot from California . |
| 22 | Harriet Ryley has been talking to an organic farmer who believes in putting the environment before profits . |
| 23 | Conservative leaders have traditionally been accommodating to the major interest and sought compromises . |
| 24 | Mrs O had been chatting to a close friend for over an hour . |
| 25 | Since then the 25 business men and women on the committee have been working to an ambitious programme . |