Example sentences of "been [v-ing] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station . |
| 2 | A woman who 's been writing to a convicted killer facing the gas chamber in America is to visit him on Death Row . |
| 3 | The new ruling , which Advanced Micro plans to appeal , means that it will have to write new microcode for the Am486 chip that it has been sampling to a few potential customers and had hoped to ship by the end of the year . |
| 4 | But in his heart he knew that he had been speaking to a troubled spirit , a spirit that had something terrible to confess . |
| 5 | The girl , who had been clinging to a third-floor window ledge , fell just as firemen were about to grab her . |
| 6 | The other monkeys might have been responding to a visual signal or they may have seen the leopard themselves . |
| 7 | He had been talking to a tall girl with white-blonde hair , but suddenly he turned his head slightly and looked straight at Maria , and every muscle in her body clenched in furious , shocked resistance . |
| 8 | Been talking to a few folk , a nice woman from New Zealand , and some Glasgow lads , and an incredibly chatty pseudo-zealot from California . |
| 9 | Mrs O had been chatting to a close friend for over an hour . |