Example sentences of "[vb past] been [v-ing] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the Russians they 'd been listening to the whole lot . |
| 2 | A few moments later , acquitted defendant Daniel Winter , who 'd been listening to the closing speeches , ran from the building . |
| 3 | and Peter came in the morning , I never thought anything I 'd been listening to the radio , I heard there was a big accident on the road , a car accident |
| 4 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I had been listening to a lot of songs in very different styles , quite consciously , to try to get a little more inspiration for when we went into the studio . |
| 7 | He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For some time Leonard had been listening to the music of the day , which he shared with his mother and sister . |
| 10 | George Underwood : ‘ It was all instigated by David really , because he had been listening to the World Service on the radio and suddenly got the bug to get involved in American Football , and he wrote to the American Embassy asking for more information . |
| 11 | Thiercelin , for instance , had no idea of the fact that they had been listening to the work of the greatest composer of the day . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's not your servant , miss , ’ said Zillah , who had been listening to the conversation . |
| 13 | Obviously he had been listening to the battle . |
| 14 | The officer commanding the militia had been listening to the conversation between the two men with growing unease . |
| 15 | Loretta turned to find that Geoffrey Simmons had been listening to the conversation . |
| 16 | Ali had been listening to the discussion . |
| 17 | If she had been speaking to a school friend she would have called Brian Daddy but this was not acceptable to Jasper . |
| 18 | But in his heart he knew that he had been speaking to a troubled spirit , a spirit that had something terrible to confess . |
| 19 | Then , in the same gentle tone she had heard Travis use when he had been speaking to the woman he loved , he murmured , ‘ Leith , my darling , I just ca n't keep it to myself any longer — do you mind ? ’ |
| 20 | Stocking knitting had been removing to the east Midlands from the last years of the preceding century . |
| 21 | Mrs O had been chatting to a close friend for over an hour . |
| 22 | The girl , who had been clinging to a third-floor window ledge , fell just as firemen were about to grab her . |
| 23 | I had thought at the time she had been referring to an officer on some survey vessel , the British Antarctic Survey 's supply ship perhaps , or else a pelagic fisherman or whaler , even an Antarctic explorer . |
| 24 | His mind for a long time before this crisis arose had been turning to the idea of a new party orientation and government by what he called a Council of State … |
| 25 | Something very interesting and very clever had been happening to the Direct Line Insurance tournament at Beckenham lately . |
| 26 | I 'm gon na start by going back to that graph we looked at first thing this morning which is trying to explain what had been happening to the pattern of tourism , both visitors to this country and visitors moving away from this country in the period nineteen seventy eight to nineteen eighty two . |
| 27 | Now , while this had been happening to the fisherman , his poor dumb wife was left alone in the lonely hut . |
| 28 | Prices had been driven up 125 per cent since 1914 and the wave of nation-wide strikes and industrial unrest that had been coming to a head on the eve of the great conflict , burst into flame . |
| 29 | Their relationship had been coming to an end and Miss Turner 's parents had arranged for her to go on a holiday to America to deter her from seeing him . |
| 30 | 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 . |