Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adv] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover the meaning is not at all the same as with to + infinitive , as can be seen from the sample sentences below : ( 39 ) For years she had been driving illegally with a licence obtained in Italy where her brother had sent the examiner a case of wine — not necessary , but she had felt bolstered . |
| 2 | A number of unused tickets , from not only the BCR have been turning up with a date in the year 1933 . |
| 3 | When she was nineteen she had been going out with a steady boyfriend for three years , and they had decided to get married . |
| 4 | I 've been going out with a bloke for about ten years , but I would n't marry him — I 'd have to be in to make his tea ! |
| 5 | Course I di I did n't get to know much else but it was obvious you see , she 'd been going out with a young man , her husband was in the Forces and er she 'd tried to get rid of it . |
| 6 | Tonight she would far rather have been getting on with a hundred and one other things , but conscience had dictated that she must get the books finished first . |
| 7 | He 's been shacking up with a girl from Bonanza 's club for months . |
| 8 | All this happened in early spring — the third week in March , I think — and for several weeks of the previous summer Inez had been carrying on with a man staying at one of the St Ives hotels . |
| 9 | Our database reviewer , Mark Whitehorn , has been playing around with a gamma version of the product — the last stage of testing before a a product goes into final code . |
| 10 | It seemed eminently believable that you , or possibly your family , had been annoyed , devastated — whatever — on finding out that your grandfather had been playing around with a young Irish girl , and had sent you over to demand an explanation , exact retribution … ’ |