Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [be] [v-ing] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sounds as if the guy is suffering from Hemingway Syndrome : ‘ computers may see their silicon lives flash before their eyes , so to speak , just before they die , ’ Prodigy Services Co suggests , reporting that physicist Stephen Thaler of McDonnell Douglas Corp has been playing with neural networks as a way to speed diamond crystal growth but while by day , he created and trained the neural nets , by night , he began annihilating them to see what would happen , randomly severing links , and when between 10% and 60% of the links were destroyed , the network regurgitated nonsense , but as it approached death , 90% of the connections severed , it generated distinct values that had been trained into it , and at times even output ‘ whimsical ’ states , where it would generate values that were neither trained nor ones that would appear in a healthy net , says Thaler , who thinks it may say something about near-death experiences for humans — ‘ It may not just be fancy biochemistry , ’ he suggests . |
| 2 | In a separate development , the Ministry of Defence has been negotiating with the receivers at Leyland-DAF 's Lancashire truck plant over the completion of a £400 million transporter contract . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Since you left me so abruptly , my mind has been teeming with a whole variety of things I 'd like to do to you . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ We think one soldier had been playing with the weapon when it went off . |
| 7 | A stranger had been chatting with Mrs O for some time . |
| 8 | The defender had been playing with Limerick on a short-term contract . |
| 9 | Remember the the boat 's been filling with water , they 've been bailing out in desperation , after they 'd done everything that they can do they then turn round and said , Lord , do n't you care we 're gon na drown ? |
| 10 | A government anti- hooligan committee has been sitting with the Football Association ; they 've drawn up a great body of information collated by the police football intelligence unit based in London . |
| 11 | However Sun has been playing with the long overdue part for many months now , working closely with Texas Instruments Inc to get the thing up to scratch . |
| 12 | Is he aware of the work that the Scottish Knitwear Council has been doing with departmental officials showing that in 1990 a total of 123,000 knitted garments in cashmere coming from China were dumped over the quota agreed ? |
| 13 | The British Refugee Council has been working with and providing services to refugees in Britain since 1981 . |
| 14 | It 's like a little girl has been playing with her mother 's scissors , and she sat in front of the mirror wondering what her mother 's going to say , and whether if she snips a little more it 'll be OK . |
| 15 | Granny had been living with us for some time . |
| 16 | And he remembered that the boy had been fiddling with them . |
| 17 | The critically-ill youngster had been staying with various people after walking out of home following rows with her stepfather John . |
| 18 | She claimed she and the murdered girl had been drinking with the old man , and that he had killed her friend , but the old man was acquitted and McLachlan was sentenced to hang . |
| 19 | The unemployed electrician had been living with girlfriend Andrea McCardle at the flat in Lee Park Drive , Belle Vale , for two years . |
| 20 | Another BBC report at about the same time reflected official thinking : ‘ The wheel of Aflaqi aggression has been turning with the help of Gulf petrodollars . ’ |
| 21 | James Fanshawe 's charge has been improving with every race and finished a head second to Turtle Island in the Group Two Gimcrack Stakes at York last time . |
| 22 | James Fanshawe 's charge has been improving with every race and finished a head second to Turtle Island in the Group Two Gimcrack Stakes at York last time . |
| 23 | When they 'd first re-entered the apartment the place had been crawling with a crowd of men who were mending the air-conditioning , installing a computer and modem to a fresh telephone line , and plugging in the dreaded fax machine . |
| 24 | This microlight had been flying with the right wingtip set to maximum incidence , but with the left at one setting of reduced incidence from neutral . |
| 25 | An impressive madame , wife of the owner , stands continuously in the corner of the restaurant , surveying every aspect of the culinary stage management , and the sommelier has been working with the family for 38 years . |
| 26 | The organisation has been negotiating with its local Training and Enterprise Council over their annual funding allocation , due to take effect next week . |
| 27 | This matter has dominated the talks Virgin has been having with BA following the High Court settlement which saw BA pay Virgin and Mr Branson a total of £610,000 in damages . |
| 28 | The commando had been waiting with disciplined patience some 400 yards ( 365m ) out . |
| 29 | The Sun identified the exact hospital and also mentioned how the wife had been living with her mother in a named town since her husband 's arrest . |
| 30 | The wind that day had been increasing with the approach of bad weather and the instructor , who had decided that it was time to stop , was towing the glider to the hangar . |