Example sentences of "he [vb past] [be] [v-ing] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He came in and he 'd been playing with this bloody lighter |
| 3 | He was not afraid to be seen deep in conversation with a Samaritan woman whom he knew was cohabiting with another man after having gone through five husbands . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He had been experimenting with dental floss , which was multi-stranded but then broke when rubbed against rocks or weeds . |
| 6 | He had been dealing with human nature all his life ; he should have been able to recognise the symptoms before now . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He had said he had been fighting with another man . |
| 9 | 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 . |