Example sentences of "[adv] have [be] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cecil resigned from the Cabinet and ever since has been playing to full houses when he addresses the Tory faithful . |
| 2 | I had never suspected she had ever loved any man but Simon Ellis and I knew she could not have been referring to him since she had never spoken of him without affection and great kindness . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So do bear those things in mind , because part of today and yesterday has been saying to you , how you can present yourselves to radio and T V in such a way that you 're not only experts in your specific subjects , but you are sufficiently expert in the techniques that go to make up good radio , that people will say , ‘ Let's have so-and-so back again . |
| 5 | A year ago he was promising economic growth in the UK , which should by now have been accelerating to three per cent per year but , of course , it never happened . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But he might just as well have been talking to himself . |
| 8 | B : I sha n't have been goin' to . |
| 9 | " She could n't have been talking to Rome , " Seddon said . |
| 10 | I 've had tremendous support in carrying them through , and had there not been this unforeseen event , I would certainly have been expecting to , and looking forward to , carrying on doing that for quite a considerable time , but I am sure that Kenneth Clarke will carry the same reforms forward with equal gusto . |