Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] have [be] [v-ing] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | For months they had been trying with divets and tackle to hoist the appropriate two-ton stone upright and into its hole . |
| 2 | In desperation , the previous week , he had ordered the children to select a favourite passage from books he had been reading with them , write it out in their best handwriting and then add some comments on what they enjoyed about the piece and about the book in general . |
| 3 | The vasectomy dated from 1980 , when a girl I 'd been sleeping with told me she was embarazada . |
| 4 | All modules for the DEChub 90 hub will fit the One Hub , which will be accompanied by the dual port router it has been developing with Cisco Systems Inc . |
| 5 | Slowly , he put down the silver pen he had been toying with and stood up , walking to her at the windows . |
| 6 | Picking up the internal telephone , she buzzed Stephanie , abruptly coming to a decision she 'd been wrestling with for a couple of days , one she considered to be eminently sensible and practical … |
| 7 | During the last minutes she had been talking with extreme rapidity in a light high voice . |
| 8 | I may be a little bit behind the times , but over the last couple of days I 've been experimenting with voice mail . |
| 9 | With a gloomy wantonness of imagination I had been coquetting with the hideous possibles of disappointment . |
| 10 | For over twenty years I have been experimenting with how we show music : not only the work of the orchestra , how they play , but also the way the instruments are brought in as part of the musical argument . |
| 11 | Four days ago in a similar quiet period she had been gossiping with her uncle , listening to his barbed comments on affairs , on the art world , and on his family . |
| 12 | As well as developing these national awards we have been working with a number of employers and other organisations to develop awards which are tailored to their individual needs . |
| 13 | Because of our experience at Scone Park and in many other projects in the twelve years we have been working with young offenders , we , along with the other children 's charities , oppose the government 's proposals on persistent young offenders . |
| 14 | Abie Klugman had long grown used to the taunt — it was Aronson 's stock joke for all of the ten years they had been lodging with Mrs Neumann , and he no longer minded it . |
| 15 | The person you 've been working with over the last couple of days . |
| 16 | The core of the business and the business development is at and that 's the main problems we 've been having with because not co-operating |
| 17 | ‘ I have discovered that the black people I have been working with in the inner cities proposed me for the award . |
| 18 | Look , I 'm furious , I can barely contain my rage , every gram of flesh I have is quivering with anger . |
| 19 | Q I 've been living with my boyfriend for three years , and we have two children , Liam , aged two and Jade , six months . |
| 20 | Q I have been trying with little success to get hold of a list of camping barn and bunkhouse type accommodations . |
| 21 | It felt like abandoning all the people we had been working with , whom we had been encouraging to organize and demand their rights . |
| 22 | ‘ That since he came back from Australia he 's been living with his mother . ’ |
| 23 | ( This was a circumstance paralleled at his own funeral , when the friends and relations of the woman he 'd been living with for part of the week since the early 1960s stole the show from us , the pathetic huddle of the family of his middle years . ) |
| 24 | Like a fool I told her about the man I 'd been living with . |
| 25 | ‘ Before the student demonstrations I had been working with a group of Latin American intellectuals in Paris , helping bring out a magazine . |
| 26 | And the players I 'd been working with previously went along with me , from using my modified equipment to using my custom-built equipment . |
| 27 | It does not help Fergie 's case that the financial expert who has been advising her about the settlement is the same man she has been cavorting with in the south of France . |
| 28 | Matilda took the knife she had been eating with , and all four of them crept towards the dining-room door , the father keeping well behind the others . |
| 29 | I wake up at night and I think of maybe some kid we 've been dealing with . |
| 30 | Tony had been unemployed for 9 months , after the roofing firm he had been working with for a year had gone into liquidation . |