Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [v-ing] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has been speaking to me all my life — ’ |
| 2 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 3 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 4 | ‘ So Alexei has been referring to me as his uncle ? ’ |
| 5 | Ask the Holy Spirit to give you the strength and resolve to follow God 's will in whatever he has been revealing to you . |
| 6 | Another insight that has been coming to me consistently is that instead of beseeching God to undertake certain actions or to grant certain mercies or blessings we should state our faith that He is already and always at work in the way that we desire , so that our petition becomes an expansion of our address to Him , a relative clause expressing our conviction of faith that He is already doing what we were about to request Him to do . |
| 7 | You see , I refrain from outlining just what this gentleman has been saying to me — about you all . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ His department has been saying to us in recent weeks that we could not have the classrooms and toilets we need because there are empty places in other schools . |
| 10 | but you see Joyce has been saying to us |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | Mr. Edmonds has been talking to himself for years … now everyone listens |
| 13 | It started to get out of proportion in that he , Ray has been talking to him about the impact of the summer season in Scarborough in terms of how long it takes his staff to get from A to B. |
| 14 | Neil MacDonald whose out from Oxford to visit Chile , has been talking to them and his reaction to their plight was direct . |
| 15 | ‘ I can see that your uncle has been talking to you about us , ’ Sophie said drily , ‘ but you do n't understand . |
| 16 | But like you , he has been talking to my shipping office in Monaco and learns that there has been no communication for four days . |
| 17 | The big question was : Who is this girl — and what has been happening to her ? |
| 18 | The big question was : Who is this girl — and what has been happening to her ? |
| 19 | When I go past , I wonder what has been happening to her in the intervening years , and that 's very odd . ’ |
| 20 | This has been happening to me , just the same . |
| 21 | ‘ Annie 's been chatting to him quite a lot , lately . |
| 22 | Roger 's been complaining to me |
| 23 | ‘ What 's been getting to you ? ’ |
| 24 | Is it because you 've taken a stand since Mother 's been taking to her bed ? ’ |
| 25 | Perhaps he 's been listening to it , too , and thinking of me . |
| 26 | ‘ But then , she 's been topping to us lately . |
| 27 | And finally we impeached a man called Waddell who 's been boasting to everyone in Barlinnie Jail that he and another man did it . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Whatever he 's been doing to you , he wo n't do it again . |
| 29 | Who 's been gossiping to you about her running away with the married man when she was fifteen and ending up in the Daily Record ? |
| 30 | Cos Lee , since this one 's been talking to him all the time |