Example sentences of "been [verb] [art] [noun] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past few weeks , Apple has been courting the press with sneak previews of Lisa on the condition that the participants undertook not to breath a word of what they had seen until the machine was officially announced on 20 January ( simultaneously around the world ) . |
| 2 | I could say that I 've been helping the police with their inquiries . |
| 3 | Finally I have been given a gearbox with the number 26107266 on top , 22 stamped on the right between gearbox and transfer box and Marshall 219467 on the side of the transfer box . |
| 4 | In Iraq 's case , the export system had been given a boost with the completion late in 1989 of the IPSA-2 pipeline . |
| 5 | CONNAHS QUAY NOMADS ' new management team of Neville Powell and Phil Evans have been given a boost with the news that star striker David O'Gorman is staying with the club . |
| 6 | So he made a couple of phone calls to Osnabrück-he found he 'd been given a room with an Engineer regiment-then sipped a lager until train time . |
| 7 | Hunt had recently been down on his luck and one day , whilst trying to interest publishers in his drawings , had been walking the streets with a portfolio under his arm when a taxi drew up with Francis Bacon inside . |
| 8 | As a result , hundreds of would-be joystick junkies have been climbing the walls with frustration , as the only compatible datarecorders that have been available lately are of the decidedly dodgy import variety and wo n't work with many games — especially budget releases . |
| 9 | Intending to increase sensitivity to the supposed threat , the right-wing tabloids have been regaling the public with anti-refugee stories during 1991 and 1992 . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been wanting a chat with Arthur , ’ he had said gleefully . |
| 11 | The talks were regarded as significant given that on previous visits to the United States , the Dalai Lama had not been granted a meeting with the President . |
| 12 | On the day after the Cease Fire he had been granted an audience with the Chairman of the Revolutionary Council and he had argued his case for the revitalisation of his dream . |
| 13 | You see , I have been searching the moors with my telescope , and although I have not actually seen the prisoner , I have seen the person who is taking him food . ’ |
| 14 | Welcome back:The novelist Jilly Cooper has been causing a stir with her raunchy new novel . |
| 15 | MICHAEL LYNAGH , who has been playing with increasing success for Italian club Treviso under the hand of magician Pierre Villepreux , has been offered a job with the PR department of Benetton , the club sponsors . |
| 16 | By the way , there was one thing that we did n't mention when we were talking about C P O's that is very pertinent is that already , I 've got it on authority , that one of the C P O's that we 've employed as a civilian has been offered a job with an alarm company at fifteen thousand a year |
| 17 | Government or Grand Met : whose fault , asks licensee Publicans in Darlington whose livelihoods are threatened by massive rent increases have been promised a meeting with the property company owning their pubs . |
| 18 | Dora had asked about sporting facilities in the region and been promised an interview with the manager of a leisure complex in Alès ; Rose , who belonged to an amateur drama group in Carshalton , was to meet the director of a forthcoming performance of ‘ son et lumière ’ whose office was in Anduze . |
| 19 | Let's just consider the political problem though you have still got a problem selling it to a lot of MP s , if they 're listening to this interview and they are concluding , maybe rightly , maybe wrongly , that actually things are n't changing very much , and they may think they 've been sold a pup with these amendments , indeed I hear that some of them have had to be bought off , well , is it true that one of them was sent off to Peru on an on an election er supervision mission in order that he might not be around when the bill came up . |
| 20 | The engineers had been investigating a fault with overhead cables in the field at Bromyard in Herefordshire . |
| 21 | When we left the meeting , I should have been punching the air with joy . |
| 22 | For some reason , Rains had been wearing a crown with his evening clothes . |
| 23 | The Press has been conducting a romance with Hannah for nearly two decades . |
| 24 | For some time Rex has been conducting a correspondence with one of the brewers entirely in verse . |
| 25 | Awoke to find I had been sharing a room with a group of nuns . |
| 26 | NICK FALDO stirred himself at last in the Masters at Augusta National yesterday when a third round of 68 made him five under par for the tournament before a storm caused a three-hour delay that had a disastrous effect on defending champion Ian Woosnam , who had been sharing the lead with Craig Parry . |
| 27 | Mr Berecz , on the other hand , has still not given up his seemingly futile struggle , and has been plaguing the congress with constant interruptions . |
| 28 | Some said Charles had been having an affair with an owner 's wife , others that he was involved in some gambling scam . |
| 29 | Lita Dowell , prosecuting , said Thomas had been having an affair with Mrs Dean for four months before the attack in August . |
| 30 | Lita Dowell , prosecuting , said that Thomas had been having an affair with Mrs Dean for four months before the attack in August . |