Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] with [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the first day the West Indian bowlers had been sparing with the bouncer , for on such a pitch there was no need for it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Coincident with the attention to reduce noise on the German Speedwing , David Clarke of Windy Kites in the UK had been toying with the concept of a kite with a rigid trailing edge . |
| 4 | Some people in the liberal Free Democratic party , the junior partner in the government , had been toying with the idea of switching their support to the Social Democrats after December . |
| 5 | In fact , ever since the beginning of the year you seem to have been toying with the idea of making a major career move or change of residence and what transpires sometimes between October 29 and November 3 should enable you to rebuild and reshape your life — and the past with all its traumas and dramas will be placed in their true perspective , if not forgotten altogether . |
| 6 | Before Henderson went to Russia Lloyd George himself had been toying with the idea that a Stockholm conference might help to keep Russia in the war . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Since Alice had long since been betrothed to Richard the studied vagueness of the phrase " to whichever of his sons married her " suggests that Henry may have been toying with the idea of marrying her not to Richard but to John . |
| 9 | ‘ No , he had been toying with the idea of proposing to Fiona , whom he had known all his life and whom he liked . |
| 10 | Of course , compared to what they had been producing with a typewriter and some rub-down lettering , the desktop publishing system was producing wonderful material — it just did n't conform to any of the professional standards . |
| 11 | Sometimes on Sundays he would take her to the fields where he had been helping with the harvest , to see the rabbits , or a nest of mice . |
| 12 | While Jessica and Karen had been helping with the salmon mousse , the dark-eyed alien had been lurking at the gate … |
| 13 | Robson , 35 , has been struggling with a recurrence of a calf injury and missed the explosive Manchester derby at Old Trafford on Tuesday . |
| 14 | The private sector has , in fact , been struggling with the intricacies of inflation accounting for the last 25 years and have , by and large , abandoned the idea as being too difficult . |
| 15 | From 19 April 1993 the Supreme Court taxing office has been experimenting with a pilot scheme and a set of draft rules is contained within Practice Direction 1 of 1993 . |
| 16 | Geoffrey Smith , and his associates Michael Mackett and Bernard Moss , have been experimenting with the possibility of modifying vaccinia to make a vaccine against hepatitis B — a major health problem in the Third World — and it is beginning to look as if it might work ( Nature , vol 302 , p 490 ) . |
| 17 | In operating partially without paper , the bank is the first of a pilot group of 10 Belgacom clients , which have been experimenting with the phone company 's as-yet-unannounced Electronic Data Interchange service for the last 18 months . |
| 18 | His mother had been singing with a company playing in a northern seaside town and he had lain on his bed in the boarding house , biting his nails , sunk under a terrible inertia . |
| 19 | I have heard her voice and spoken to her lover and been walking with the Masai who was present at the farcical and tragic lion hunt . |
| 20 | Auditors are normally concerned with ensuring that the accounts of a firm are an accurate record of its financial position and that employers or directors have not been absconding with the funds or ‘ fiddling the books ’ . |
| 21 | The authorities have been grappling with the problem for a decade , but still the cars choke the cobbled streets . |
| 22 | At present , another member commented , " we have been driving with the accelerator full down and the brake on at the same time " . |
| 23 | ICL has been dallying with the prospect of putting its OfficePower office automation suite up on alien platforms for at least two years . |
| 24 | Local authorities have been cooperating with the health authorities in the provision of community care schemes for several years under special arrangements for joint finance . |
| 25 | Mona , the distinguished elderly lady in the tea-gown with lace at the neck , had been listening with a disapproval balanced by her evident affection for both Charity and Peregrine . |
| 26 | But peering more closely he could see that someone had recently been writing with a fountain pen . |
| 27 | Clark has been living with a Jarvik 7 implant , connected to a separate air compressor , since 2 December last year . |
| 28 | she 's been living with a brother . |
| 29 | She had been living with the Wilsons for nearly three months . |
| 30 | Since the summer of last year we have been living with the consequences of Mrs Thatcher 's unreasoned dislike of the ERM . |