Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] with [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Merson does n't hide the fact that he has been struggling with his weight . |
| 2 | Hunter has been training with his team-mates but on match nights has had to go it alone . |
| 3 | She has been living with her friend Jane Eager at Scira Court , Wylam Avenue , Darlington , since October and applied to the council as a homeless person last month . |
| 4 | The bank has been experimenting with it for seven years , but , this year , 100 branches will come on stream . |
| 5 | Maria Harris has been staying with her parents at Wood Farm since returning to Britain just days before Saddam Hussein 's forces marched in , exactly two months ago . |
| 6 | Like a cat with its prey , Microsoft has been toying with its competition , threatening to hang a predatory $100 introductory price on the stuff . |
| 7 | Like a cat with its prey , Microsoft has been toying with its competition , threatening to hang a predatory $99 introductory price on the stuff ( UX No 413 ) . |
| 8 | It has been swimming with us . |
| 9 | The organisation has been negotiating with its local Training and Enterprise Council over their annual funding allocation , due to take effect next week . |
| 10 | That Kevin is certainly growing into a fine young man , he has been working with his shirt off in this weather and you can see he is going to be just as much an athlete as his father was . |
| 11 | Mr Giles of Grimethorpe Motors has been advertising with us for two years and he is delighted with the results . |
| 12 | For the past year Maureen Timmins has been corresponding with him in San Quentin jail where he 's waiting execution for the murder of his pregnant wife . |
| 13 | I 've spoken to Gordon at length about this several times and he has been coping with it — but only with difficulty . ’ |
| 14 | Just before the start of this extract , Brenda has been talking with her friends about an incident at a party . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He has been playing with it . |
| 17 | Isabel 's personal integrity had been there in her clear gaze all the time , if he 'd been thinking with his head instead of with his emotions . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He 'd been fiddling with his desk , had n't he ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ And do you deny that for the two years prior to his death you 'd been living with him in his flat in London ? ’ |
| 22 | She 'd been living with him in Bristol and they planned to marry . |
| 23 | He 's going to be ages , thought Juliet desperately , suddenly realising she 'd been standing with her hands clenched together , and her eyes screwed tightly as if to hear better . |
| 24 | He did it automatically when the girl attacked the man who 'd been fighting with her father , recognizing it as a natural reaction to shock and grief . |
| 25 | He is very strict , and would dismiss me if he found out I 'd been interfering with his books . |
| 26 | The first , that with so much burnt umber on his hands he looked as though he 'd been playing with his own shit . |
| 27 | ‘ We 'd been sitting with him in hospital keeping his mind occupied , but when our visiting times changed and he was alone he would lie there and think . |
| 28 | Did he say what he 'd been doing with himself ? |
| 29 | I think it would have been the Zetland , and — who knows — Mrs Field may have been riding with them that day . |
| 30 | In 1822 Elizabeth 's son Robert was baptised at the Mile End Old Town Zion Chapel on Union Street , built by devotees of Lady Huntingdon 's Connexion ; the young boy , then 13 , may well have been staying with his uncle Samuel at the time , the latter having married three years previously . |