Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been wanting a chat with Arthur , ’ he had said gleefully . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Welcome back:The novelist Jilly Cooper has been causing a stir with her raunchy new novel . |
| 9 | The engineers had been investigating a fault with overhead cables in the field at Bromyard in Herefordshire . |
| 10 | When we left the meeting , I should have been punching the air with joy . |
| 11 | For some reason , Rains had been wearing a crown with his evening clothes . |
| 12 | The Press has been conducting a romance with Hannah for nearly two decades . |
| 13 | For some time Rex has been conducting a correspondence with one of the brewers entirely in verse . |
| 14 | Awoke to find I had been sharing a room with a group of nuns . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Mr Berecz , on the other hand , has still not given up his seemingly futile struggle , and has been plaguing the congress with constant interruptions . |
| 17 | Some said Charles had been having an affair with an owner 's wife , others that he was involved in some gambling scam . |
| 18 | Lita Dowell , prosecuting , said Thomas had been having an affair with Mrs Dean for four months before the attack in August . |
| 19 | Lita Dowell , prosecuting , said that Thomas had been having an affair with Mrs Dean for four months before the attack in August . |
| 20 | My son-in-law came home a few weeks ago and confessed he 'd been having an affair with a girl in his office . |
| 21 | The girl had claimed that she had been having an affair with the teacher for some months . |
| 22 | Her husband had been having an affair with Suzanne Regan . |
| 23 | Well , she 's been having an affair with this bloke for the last year or so and then out of the blue he turned round and … |
| 24 | Melissa played thoughtfully with her empty coffee mug and reflected on what now seemed the certainty that Rodney Shergold had been having an affair with Angy . |
| 25 | He 'd been away at the time of the murder but if , as seemed likely , he 'd been having an affair with Angy … suppose he was married and his wife had found out , and taken the opportunity while her husband was absent to do away with her rival ? |
| 26 | He got a job in insurance and the marriage lasted about three years and three months , then Bunny found out that his quiet , dutiful wife had been having an affair with her boss at the food research place where she worked for roughly three years and two months . |
| 27 | She 's been having an affair with Theo Sykes , and it turns out they were in Paris together at the time Puddephat was murdered . |
| 28 | The man who killed officer worker Anna McGurk has told a jury he 'd been having an affair with her before her death . |
| 29 | This letter had purportedly been written by his wife to him saying that he was not the father of the child and she had been having an affair with a man called Nigel , ’ said Mr Klevan . |
| 30 | I had been having an affair with her husband . ’ |