Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [verb] be [v-ing] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past three years my department has been collaborating with a training programme for general practitioners based at the Conceicao Hospital in Porto Alegre , a large city in the southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul with a population of around 1.5 million . |
| 2 | Since you left me so abruptly , my mind has been teeming with a whole variety of things I 'd like to do to you . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Members of my church have been working with ACET since it started 3 years ago . |
| 4 | How can England 's cricket bosses allow them to scoop all that money if their bowlers have been tampering with the ball ? |
| 5 | The fact was that for many years she and her father had been living with a dangerous illusion ; and the illusion was that they were entirely virtuous in their endeavours , entirely on the angels ' side . |
| 6 | Her daughter had been sleeping with boys , and men since she was fourteen . |
| 7 | Meanwhile their investigation had received help from Roxie Farmer 's reluctant admission that her brother had been staying with her , and that he had gone off one day , borrowing her former husband 's bike , and had come back with blood on him . |
| 8 | His mother had been singing with a company playing in a northern seaside town and he had lain on his bed in the boarding house , biting his nails , sunk under a terrible inertia . |
| 9 | His father , John William Gannon , said his son had been living with him since he split up with his wife in January . |
| 10 | Your son-in-law has been sleeping with this girl at work for the best part of 11 years and presumably he 's been having his conjugals in the matrimonial bed , too . |