Example sentences of "had [be] [v-ing] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics . |
| 2 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 3 | The advice was given after Jo had been speaking to both children and their parents ( an audience that included 12 year old Romy Hutchins — a participant in the Challenge — and her father Paul , the former British Davis Cup captain and national team manager ) , in a unique question and answer session which preceded an on court clinic for the 20 or so participating juniors . |
| 4 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
| 5 | The two cousins had been writing to each other in secret for several weeks , and Cathy had used the milkman as a messenger . |
| 6 | When he did not return for quite a while , she guessed they had been talking to each other about her . |