Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] with [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Portillo has been meeting with two leading Conservative Councillors from Oxfordshire to discuss the impact of the Poll Tax on the County . |
| 2 | Graydon has been working with several large UK organisations on a remedial approach to corporate risk assessment |
| 3 | He came in and he 'd been playing with this bloody lighter |
| 4 | She knew he was waiting for her to agree , and it was desperation , pure and simple , she thought , that made her remember the elegant blonde he had been dining with that particular night . |
| 5 | An article in the Timber Trades Journal reported Michael Latham , chairman of a major UK timber firm and then president of the European tropical timber importers union , as saying that : ‘ The entry of the WWF into the field enlarged the scale of the problem for the timber trade , since before that time the trade had been dealing with small local conservationist groups ’ . |
| 6 | Mary had been playing with some other children in the stable yard and had suddenly fainted . |