Example sentences of "[vb past] been [v-ing] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It appears there 'd been a big row and a parting of the ways before my agent tracked them down , but my premise was right : they 'd been staying with one of Svend 's college friends at his parents ’ apartment on the outskirts of the city . |
| 2 | She 'd been living with one of his men , a guy who knew a lot about his affairs , and Connie could n't help knowing plenty of things that Bonanza would not want advertised on the radio . ’ |
| 3 | Maybe she 'd always had someone to look after her ; he 'd been living with darned socks and the stitch-in-time philosophy all his life , first his mother and then Margaret , who sorted her stockings out into ones she could wear to the office and ones which were only good for gardening . |
| 4 | He came in and he 'd been playing with this bloody lighter |
| 5 | It was an appreciative whistle and one that Rachel recognised , for since she 'd been working with five thousand men she had become well used to whistles of that nature . |
| 6 | If you 'd been working with this angle instead , we did n't know that and we 're trying to work with this one or we say we 're interested in this angle so that will be the opposite and this would be the adjacent . |
| 7 | The vasectomy dated from 1980 , when a girl I 'd been sleeping with told me she was embarazada . |
| 8 | Eventually an old gentleman who had been listening with much amusement to their discussion said that what mattered was not whether the earthworm has an immortal soul but whether it has a purpose . |
| 9 | There they brought the coracle ashore lightly , and drew in , with reluctance and the reverence of finality , what they had been hunting with such assiduity , and so persistently hoped they would not find . |
| 10 | A mere two days before she had been deliberating with other world leaders at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe . |
| 11 | She knew he was waiting for her to agree , and it was desperation , pure and simple , she thought , that made her remember the elegant blonde he had been dining with that particular night . |
| 12 | Mrs Cohen had been protesting with increasing frequency as day overtook day with no news . |
| 13 | Molotov concluded the parallel negotiations which he had been conducting with German representatives and thus secured two years grace while partitioning Poland with Nazi Germany . |
| 14 | She looked back over her three years at college , now slowly approaching their close , and she thought of all the people she had known and all the friends she had made , and it seemed to her that most of them had been aiming with varying degrees of accuracy at just such an effect . |
| 15 | The court was told Tania had been living with another man , Robert Cross , for five months . |
| 16 | The critically-ill youngster had been staying with various people after walking out of home following rows with her stepfather John . |
| 17 | Ever since 1959 , and Bomb , Miles had been experimenting with small magazines and one-offs . |
| 18 | Blackpool had been experimenting with extensive rebuilding of the Marton and Motherwell cars , but the confines of Blundell Street Depot limited the scope of such activities . |
| 19 | He had been experimenting with dental floss , which was multi-stranded but then broke when rubbed against rocks or weeds . |
| 20 | An article in the Timber Trades Journal reported Michael Latham , chairman of a major UK timber firm and then president of the European tropical timber importers union , as saying that : ‘ The entry of the WWF into the field enlarged the scale of the problem for the timber trade , since before that time the trade had been dealing with small local conservationist groups ’ . |
| 21 | He had been dealing with human nature all his life ; he should have been able to recognise the symptoms before now . |
| 22 | Brownlow had been dealing with human vagaries for thirty years . |
| 23 | The black eyes that had been sparkling with good humour a moment before had become hard , almost angry . |
| 24 | Despite all his dissembling about any new industry alliances over the past few months , Carlo de Benedetti told Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA 's annual meeting that he had been negotiating with Digital Equipment Corp , and revealed details of the alliance . |
| 25 | She had been gesturing with one hand , to emphasize what she said . |
| 26 | The commando had been waiting with disciplined patience some 400 yards ( 365m ) out . |
| 27 | ‘ Mr Gould was worn out by our reverses , regretted the loss of time , and this very afternoon had been declaring with many apologies that he must go back in the Vansittart . |
| 28 | The baby had been endeavouring with grim determination to haul himself from the floor on to Alexandra 's knee , gripping handfuls of her skirts to assist himself and heaving with astonishing strength . |
| 29 | Mr Wilson said that police forces had been working with inadequate law for years and that the drafted change would , it was hoped , improve the situation . |
| 30 | By the time of his trial , Father Lynch , a former missionary in Africa , had been working with gay Catholics in the city for nearly ten years . |