Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] [v-ing] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vasectomy dated from 1980 , when a girl I 'd been sleeping with told me she was embarazada . |
| 2 | Whoever expected the little grey devils I had been assaulting with white arrows and rolling with white healing balls to reappear in my lung ? |
| 3 | As to the other case that I want to say a word about , I have to confess now to beating a drum that I have been beating with varying success for a number of years . |
| 4 | A mere two days before she had been deliberating with other world leaders at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe . |
| 5 | During the last minutes she had been talking with extreme rapidity in a light high voice . |
| 6 | A possible scenario for self-publishers is this : You have been meeting with other writers for some time . |
| 7 | I mean you 've had Sue , Sue for example tied up on and all those sort of issues , Bob 's been dealing with pr pension conversions and stuff like that for , for months on end , so we 've been dealing with other projects , all that 's happened is the work has been redirected onto a different type of project . |
| 8 | And to show you what the situation is er the world 's energy demand is very likely i i i is almost certain to increase er because of development in the world and also because of the growing population er that arrow is some sort of guess as to how the world er the demand for energy worldwide is likely to increase when you set that against the curves at the bottom which show the likely projections for oil and natural gas as you can see as we get into the next century those er fossil fuels , which we 've been using with gay abandon for many decades , will start to into er decline . |
| 9 | So System Ten is the culmination of several years of work that we 've been doing with other hardware and software vendors but most importantly with our customers . |
| 10 | and , and they may very well my Lord , say well we have been watching with great interest what your Lordship has been doing |
| 11 | Their leader , Peter Bancroft , 36 , said : ‘ We have been struggling with British Rail 's shortage of drivers for months and have christened our regular train home the ghost train . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They 've been marching with full-time soldiers in Horseguards Parade . |
| 14 | There they have been working with individual patients who , for one reason or another , spend most of their lives sitting down — some of them in wheelchairs , unable to walk at all . |
| 15 | He has been toying with various possibilities ( we suggested he could come to us & repeat the year at Oban High — a somewhat unlikely proposition , I admit ) but seems likely to plump for a 4-year course at Birmingham , leading to a BSc in Computer Engineering . |
| 16 | Rainow , Cheshire-based Eden says that it has been working with unnamed telecommunications operators and user groups on the design of the phone , and envisages both business customers and consumers being interested in the device . |
| 17 | Maybe she 'd always had someone to look after her ; he 'd been living with darned socks and the stitch-in-time philosophy all his life , first his mother and then Margaret , who sorted her stockings out into ones she could wear to the office and ones which were only good for gardening . |
| 18 | Molotov concluded the parallel negotiations which he had been conducting with German representatives and thus secured two years grace while partitioning Poland with Nazi Germany . |
| 19 | He had been experimenting with dental floss , which was multi-stranded but then broke when rubbed against rocks or weeds . |
| 20 | He had been dealing with human nature all his life ; he should have been able to recognise the symptoms before now . |
| 21 | Despite all his dissembling about any new industry alliances over the past few months , Carlo de Benedetti told Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA 's annual meeting that he had been negotiating with Digital Equipment Corp , and revealed details of the alliance . |
| 22 | He 'll never let you get away with anything in a ward even if he 's been pining with unrequited love for your aunt for God knows how many years . ’ |
| 23 | Additionally , he 's been working with Left Hand Right Hand , who 've just toured the States , while his other musical activities have seen him involved with British Racing Green and Danielle Dax , with whom he plays bass from time to time . |
| 24 | She looked back over her three years at college , now slowly approaching their close , and she thought of all the people she had known and all the friends she had made , and it seemed to her that most of them had been aiming with varying degrees of accuracy at just such an effect . |