Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] [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 | " Lord , I feel as if I 've been living with this case for ever ! " |
| 4 | I 've been playing with that idea all day . |
| 5 | Q I have been trying with little success to get hold of a list of camping barn and bunkhouse type accommodations . |
| 6 | I would actually like to know your answer to this question , since I have been discussing with one or two other people whether one could hope to persuade Regional Railways to introduce a cheap fare for small groups of people , say on winter weekdays on quiet lines like the Central Wales and the Cambrian Coast . |
| 7 | Olympia picked out one of the gems when they released Salmanov 's Fourth Symphony ( 3/89 ) , and I have been listening with much pleasure to Mravinsky 's Melodiya LPs of the previous three symphonies by this intriguing composer . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If you 'd been working with this angle instead , we did n't know that and we 're trying to work with this one or we say we 're interested in this angle so that will be the opposite and this would be the adjacent . |
| 10 | She 'd been living with one of his men , a guy who knew a lot about his affairs , and Connie could n't help knowing plenty of things that Bonanza would not want advertised on the radio . ’ |
| 11 | It was an appreciative whistle and one that Rachel recognised , for since she 'd been working with five thousand men she had become well used to whistles of that nature . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've been playin' with that for hours . ’ |
| 13 | A mere two days before she had been deliberating with other world leaders at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe . |
| 14 | During the last minutes she had been talking with extreme rapidity in a light high voice . |
| 15 | She had been gesturing with one hand , to emphasize what she said . |
| 16 | A possible scenario for self-publishers is this : You have been meeting with other writers for some time . |
| 17 | She 's been living with this guy for months , by all accounts , so she 's probably immune to his germs by now . |
| 18 | Oh Jane , yeah well she 's been , she 's been suffering with that back a long , long time |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | out of what we 've been doing with this . |
| 23 | and , and they may very well my Lord , say well we have been watching with great interest what your Lordship has been doing |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | We have been liaising with those bodies who are surveying associated areas in this field , but the additional information we gather here should be of great use in future policy-making . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ It appears there 'd been a big row and a parting of the ways before my agent tracked them down , but my premise was right : they 'd been staying with one of Svend 's college friends at his parents ’ apartment on the outskirts of the city . |
| 28 | They 've been marching with full-time soldiers in Horseguards Parade . |
| 29 | There they brought the coracle ashore lightly , and drew in , with reluctance and the reverence of finality , what they had been hunting with such assiduity , and so persistently hoped they would not find . |
| 30 | 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 . |