Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jerry refuses with zest ; he has obviously been springing to his own defence for many a long year . |
| 2 | You see I 've got with me in the studio here Stan Bowes , who 's the head of marketing for the Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board , and Stan has just been explaining to us that there is this campaign to encourage people to take holidays in this country . |
| 3 | Astra has already been talking to officials of the Commons about its planned service , based on the American C-Span cable network , which performs a similar function . |
| 4 | This has indeed been happening to the USA , and much of the capital funds moving to the USA have come from Japan . |
| 5 | Section 2.2 explores different definitions of deindustrialization , looking at each of them in the context of data on what has actually been happening to manufacturing in this country over recent decades . |
| 6 | Erm , and has recently been going to dress-making classes , but she nothing to anybody at work . |
| 7 | We 'd all been listening to things like reggae and Spanish music , and when we got together to rehearse , we 'd be playing all kinds of crazy stuff before we settled down to get serious . ’ |
| 8 | I 'd just been talking to the guard , twelve hour shifts , sixty hours a week and he ca n't even have any time off for tea breaks or meal breaks . |
| 9 | ‘ The situation has been eased slightly for my parents since a community nurse has been visiting Jennifer , but I must admit I 'd rapidly been coming to the conclusion that something else would be needed very soon . |
| 10 | In those few minutes she 'd simply been reacting to the mood he 'd created so skilfully . |
| 11 | Wh erm Terry 's feelings there do they you 've obviously been speaking to large numbers of protestors do they marry with the other opinions that you hear ? |
| 12 | They 've all been listening to the trainer . |
| 13 | ‘ But you 've only been talking to them for a little while ! ’ said Angalo . |
| 14 | She had apparently been travelling to Godstowe and must therefore have been expected . |
| 15 | Another thing , perhaps , we should notice right at the very beginning is that Jesus did n't actually speak in pa , in in er , in chapters , and they 've lost , they 've been put in for our convenience , and chapter fifteen is not the beginning of a new incident Jesus had already been speaking to the people , he had been teaching them in chapter fourteen . |
| 16 | took the first call , but I 've just been speaking to him , and you 'd better have the full picture . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 've just been speaking to my sister . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've just been speaking to Drewer , ’ rapped Naylor . |
| 19 | ‘ By the way , I 've just been listening to the news . |
| 20 | Oh I 've just been listening to your conversation with Dennis and Iris . |
| 21 | Then that particular Saturday , Leith 's outgoing if slightly irresponsible brother had come to tell her excitedly , ‘ I 've just been chatting to Rosemary Green ! ’ |
| 22 | Er in fact I have now , Mr has found the er the report which has actually got the traffic assessment e that we 've just been referring to which is er no western relief road but with in an inner northern road . |
| 23 | Now you 've just been describing to us Mr about er your leisure activities etcetera and it was sort of confined to the etcetera . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've just been talking to your aunt on the phone . |
| 25 | I 've just been talking to Captain Montgomery . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've just been talking to Mrs Flaherty , ’ she said . |
| 27 | Erm I I 've just been talking to me husband about it . |
| 28 | Catching her arm , he said quietly , ‘ I 've just been talking to Donal . ’ |
| 29 | But I 've just been talking to the head there and he said you know that you know the tor tutorial programme , Mrs started it all erm |
| 30 | You may have to say , Well I 've just been talking to the estate agent about this and er you know on a number occasions he 's sent people along to you er may be you did n't realize that was happening . |