Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The claim is sometimes made of a lack of continuity in policy which has been damaging to growth : in particular , that political changes have inhibited consistent action by civil servants . |
| 2 | She has been going to therapy since she was about two . ’ |
| 3 | Immediately before this extract , speaker B ( female , 50+ , aunt of speaker A ) has been describing to speaker A ( female , 20+ ) the first type of radio she had , forty years before . |
| 4 | And he 'd known it , all the time he 'd been trying to bed her . |
| 5 | A TRIAL was halted yesterday after complaints that magistrates had fallen asleep when they should have been listening to evidence . |
| 6 | Magistrate John Pemberton told Wendy , who now has a steady boyfriend , aged 24 : ‘ If prostitution had been involved you would have been going to prison . ’ |
| 7 | On a more positive note we have supported the efforts to rationalise and sustain the Free Representation Unit which it is hoped are coming to fruition and we have been able to help in a small way with the organisation of the national schools Mock Trial Competition . |
| 8 | Usually , the Oracle says simply that ‘ the Master is asleep ’ , but if you are running an adventure in which Drachenfels is returning to life and the adventurers have n't killed him yet , the Oracle 's eyes gleam as he says that ‘ the Master is growing stronger , he will come to see me soon ’ , as he clasps his hands together in unholy pleasure . |
| 9 | What does she think 's happening to education ? |
| 10 | The Thing had been listening to radio and television and had found the place the going-straight-up Shuttles went from . |
| 11 | Puzzling — since it seemed that Yorke had been listening to information he 'd specifically asked for . |
| 12 | Mrs Grandison followed her apprehensively into one of those ubiquitous tea-shops which cater for the multitudes of office workers and others who want a cheap meal at any time of the day , and which , excellent though they are , can hardly be compared with the restaurants Mrs Grandison had been hoping to lunch in . |
| 13 | Er , my experience is slightly different when erm when I had been trying to sort of recover , I did n't , I did n't feel as if I 've get any help from professionals that I approached . |
| 14 | The vote of no confidence was a final humiliation for a government that had been clinging to office . |
| 15 | The head told me that Mrs Singh had been coming to school regularly to express concern about Balbinder 's lack of progress . |
| 16 | Yet this love , so compelling , so fascinating as it grew despite everything , had been leading to destruction . |
| 17 | Ken , meanwhile , believed he had found a play that suited his temperament and talents better than most of the things on which he had been working to date . |
| 18 | The problem came to a crisis after I had been going to evening classes ( Workers ' Educational Association ) , the subject being psychology . |
| 19 | So I 've been trying , I 've been trying to sort of , I I was arguing saying , I do n't think that 's true . |
| 20 | And in the last couple of years I 've been listening to music that 's going in the same direction , like The Beach Boys , for instance , but trying to keep it within a guitar format . |
| 21 | That huge estate in Scotland — ; I 've been listening to Mamma and Mrs Talbot with half an ear , you never know what you might miss — and you do n't hunt . ’ |
| 22 | You 've been listening to loverboy , that 's all ! ’ |
| 23 | I 've been going to bed at half past one and I was doing the T M A for two nights , then I 've been doing his V A T for two nights so I 've got to bed really really late and I just and , the thing is , the T M A were all on about my then I just start to relax I had to resort to herbal knockout drops . |
| 24 | You 've been going to bed nice and early have n't you ? |
| 25 | I 've been coming to conference for the last fifteen years to help build the grand union which we 've got today and I 'm not gon na sit back and watch this carved up , for nobody , for nobody . |
| 26 | Well that 's what I 've been saying to dad as well , I said the times I said we 've had cheques come back ! |
| 27 | They were mixing and mingling , her guests ; the young were speaking to the old , men were speaking to women , Left was speaking to Right , art unto science , and only a few impossible old dullards of the financial world had drifted together to talk about pay comparability and public sector borrowing and the GNP . |
| 28 | Now let me ask you , a lot of you this , some of you have been coming to Congress year after year , you probably come from branches from five hundred , a thousand , fifteen hundred people , but how many people actually go to the branch meetings to elect you to come to Congress ? |
| 29 | Now I can not think of a single occasion over the years , my adulthood when I have been going to theatre arts events of any kind when I 've actually gone out and bought anything as a result of sponsorship of a programme I 've been looking at . |
| 30 | It may be a new experience for you — but students have been going to college for at least two-and-a-half thousand years ! |