Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [v-ing] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Emissary 's Illusochamber had also been free of bugging devices as I 'd found when I 'd been fiddling with my headband , activating a mini-ceptor in one of the jewels . |
| 2 | Like a fool I told her about the man I 'd been living with . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He is very strict , and would dismiss me if he found out I 'd been interfering with his books . |
| 5 | The vasectomy dated from 1980 , when a girl I 'd been sleeping with told me she was embarazada . |
| 6 | Some of the theories would have made Balzac blush , but they finally decided I 'd been sleeping with Laura , her husband had beaten me up in a dark alley , and now I was on my way to kill him . |
| 7 | And the players I 'd been working with previously went along with me , from using my modified equipment to using my custom-built equipment . |
| 8 | ‘ I fancied a change of scene from London where I 'd been working with the Bank of England in-house catering team ’ she said . |
| 9 | If I had been staying with you I … |
| 10 | With a gloomy wantonness of imagination I had been coquetting with the hideous possibles of disappointment . |
| 11 | I had been struggling with tears for some time and now I let them flow freely . |
| 12 | I had been dealing with trivia but this was different . |
| 13 | He was overlooking the fact that I had been living with Jean-Claude for more than three years . |
| 14 | It had been impossible to think of the future since John 's abduction , but 17 April was only weeks away and I had been discussing with Chris and Nick how we might mark it in some way . |
| 15 | ‘ I had been rowing with my dad since I was little , so I did n't want to go to his new family with my brother . |
| 16 | I had bought a pair of trousers and a T-shirt when I had been shopping with a friend . |
| 17 | Whoever expected the little grey devils I had been assaulting with white arrows and rolling with white healing balls to reappear in my lung ? |
| 18 | Next I went to the Clerecia , where I had been sitting with Dana watching that wall-clock 's gift pendulum busily wagging away on the wall in front of the great baroque gilt altar . |
| 19 | ‘ Before the student demonstrations I had been working with a group of Latin American intellectuals in Paris , helping bring out a magazine . |
| 20 | Then I forget that I 've been joking with her then she tells me off so I do n't bother any more . |
| 21 | I 've been staying with Aunt Alicia for the past six months … |
| 22 | I 've been staying with Rose , Drew 's mother , since we heard about the crash . |
| 23 | The sort of prices which people charged and I 've been speaking with Jack only this morning , the sort of prices people charged , started way , way , way down , and then went way , way , way up . |
| 24 | But yes , abroad lies our final year of partnership , although I 've been toying with the idea of alighting upon a play by Shakespeare hitherto unknown , unseen and unenacted . ’ |
| 25 | I 've been chatting with the river folk about the dog . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I have a Korg M1R and a Korg Wave Station , and that 's what I 've been writing with . |
| 27 | I may be a little bit behind the times , but over the last couple of days I 've been experimenting with voice mail . |
| 28 | I 'm 40 , I 've been living with my fiancé , who 's the same age , for three years and I think the world of him . |
| 29 | Q I 've been living with my boyfriend for three years , and we have two children , Liam , aged two and Jade , six months . |
| 30 | " Lord , I feel as if I 've been living with this case for ever ! " |