Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] with [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bank has been experimenting with it for seven years , but , this year , 100 branches will come on stream . |
| 2 | Mr Giles of Grimethorpe Motors has been advertising with us for two years and he is delighted with the results . |
| 3 | For the past year Maureen Timmins has been corresponding with him in San Quentin jail where he 's waiting execution for the murder of his pregnant wife . |
| 4 | Anyway , I 'd been staying with them in darkest Kensington , at Mr Gibbon 's very grand , three-storeyed town-house in Ascot Square , just off Addison Road , and working at a branch of Mondo-Food on Victoria Street ( they were trying a new line in Haggisburgers at the time and the manager thought my accent would help shift them . |
| 5 | ‘ And do you deny that for the two years prior to his death you 'd been living with him in his flat in London ? ’ |
| 6 | She 'd been living with him in Bristol and they planned to marry . |
| 7 | ‘ We 'd been sitting with him in hospital keeping his mind occupied , but when our visiting times changed and he was alone he would lie there and think . |
| 8 | I suppose in the old days , if we 'd been like you , she 'd have been living with us as a matter of course . ’ |
| 9 | They each had a radiator beside their beds , and very often when I was on night duty J. would return to bed very late ( or should I say early ? ) , after having been sitting with me in the Met Office , drinking coffee , chatting and so forth . |
| 10 | If you read a few er , verses , a chapter or so earlier on , he had been speaking to one man to a er er a high official from Ethiopia , and he had been sharing with him from Isaiah chapter fifty three , the message of Jesus Christ . |
| 11 | Jean Campbell , in 1817 , was an uneducated deaf person without any speech who could only write the initials of her name in reverse order , eg. C.J. She was an unmarried woman who had three children by different men , one of whom at the time of her arrest in April 1817 had been living with her as a common law husband but who had a few days earlier taken off the ring that he had given to her and which she wore on her finger in the fashion of a married woman , and had left home . |
| 12 | In October , Hopper married Michelle Phillips who had been living with him for some months . |
| 13 | Granny had been living with us for some time . |
| 14 | Then Waddell 's alibi , Donald Carmichael , who had said at Meehan 's trial that Waddell had been staying with him on the night of the murder , now admitted this was a lie . |
| 15 | Craig had been staying with her for some weeks now and she had grown used to seeing him there in her kitchen . |
| 16 | But on the other hand I 'm pleased the reasons they 've given for the delay are the points we 've been raising with them over the last two years . |
| 17 | I 've been working with him since ‘ Expecting To Fly ’ in 1968 . ’ |
| 18 | I 've been working with you for weeks . |
| 19 | Nevertheless I would claim that the religious life as a phenomenon has insights which can throw light on the question , because the nuns have been wrestling with it for centuries . |
| 20 | Prince Alexis — who 's been staying with us for ages — asked me to marry him , and I said no . |
| 21 | ‘ She 's been staying with us for a few days . ’ |
| 22 | She 's been staying with us over the Christmas holiday . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Sara Lee 's been playing with us for a while ; it was Scott Litt ( REM producer ) who recommended her , and I love the way she plays bass . |