Example sentences of "[verb] be [v-ing] to [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to my Hilda and young Ralph . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to our friends in Manila , ’ he says , chattily , as though the difference in our rank means nothing to him . |
| 3 | Visible ideas are signs and indications of tangible ideas , and have a constant and universal connection with them which was ‘ learnt at our first entrance into the world ; and ever since , almost every moment of our lives , it has been occurring to our thoughts , and fastening and striking deeper on our minds . ’ |
| 4 | But like you , he has been talking to my shipping office in Monaco and learns that there has been no communication for four days . |
| 5 | The crowd seemed to be getting a little impatient just before the goal ( as I 'm sure we all were listening to it on the radio ) but can you imagine what the scum crowd would ahve been doing to their team if they had n't scored within twenty minutes ? |
| 6 | They knew we 'd been talking to their pop idols and they just wanted to touch us . |
| 7 | The publican replied that he 'd been talking to his dog . |
| 8 | And she 'd been coming to our house , Oh about fie or six years , and she said one day to Mary , that 's my wife , says you know , Not strange name , there 's not many of them about . |
| 9 | NEWCASTLE United are looking to their supporters to ease their mounting financial burden . |
| 10 | How many of these songs could she have been singing to her daddy ? |
| 11 | But by a proud assertion of " independence " , an eighteenth-century artisan more likely would have been referring to his ability to maintain a wife and family at a proper standard without recourse to charity or poor relief . |
| 12 | Most of the men on the plane would have been returning to their families and civilian life in the near future but , alas , they died on a remote and desolate Ayrshire hillside before they had seen their homes and families again . |
| 13 | He seems to have been retiring to his ships again when Edmund overtook him at the hill called Assandun ( probably Ashdon in north-west or Ashingdon in south-east Essex ) . |
| 14 | Maisie Dougall had been listening to her friends going on and she thought it was about time she made a contribution . |
| 15 | His comment also meant that he had been listening to her conversation with the receptionist in Dublin — because he had still been bored ? |
| 16 | ‘ I told you not to bother , ’ Ellen said disparagingly as she climbed the main companionway , and I guessed that she had been listening to my conversation with Billingsley by standing just under the saloon skylight which was propped open . |
| 17 | The officer 's life was ‘ almost certainly ’ saved by the fact that one bullet became embedded in a radio handset he had been holding to his ear . |
| 18 | His life had almost certainly been saved by the fact that one bullet had hit a radio handset he had been holding to his ear . |
| 19 | Lady Bell said her son had been returning to his Land Rover , parked on the opposite side of the road to the farm . |
| 20 | Di Driver had been coming to my classes for some time and she knew I was appearing on the programme but I had no idea that she planned on paying me a visit ‘ on air ’ . |
| 21 | And er an interesting thing had been coming to our house She comes goes to the same church . |
| 22 | The day began with talk that South Eastern Asset Management , a Tennessee-based fund manager , had been adding to its 10.3 per cent shareholding . |
| 23 | I 've been listening to your programme all morning so . |
| 24 | You 've been listening to his scaremongering nonsense . |
| 25 | If you 're opting for a perm or colour , always tell your hairdresser what you 've been doing to your hair . |
| 26 | ‘ You 've been talking to my wife . |
| 27 | Mr Harrison said : ‘ Following the closure of the Swan Hunter yard the Government has finally agreed to talk to the EC about getting the same subsidies for all British shipyards that we 've been giving to our competitors in the EC for years . |
| 28 | ‘ David Mellor and his family have been coming to my restaurant for 18 years and they are my very good friends , ’ says Moziruddin . |
| 29 | He added : ‘ Following the closure of Swan Hunter 's , the government has finally agreed to talk to the EC about getting the same subsidies for all British shipyards that we have been giving to our competitors in the EC for years . |
| 30 | In addition to the British Standards updating service which the Library and Information Service have been offering to their customers , they are now in a position to offer an updating service for standards from other National and International Standard Bodies . |