Example sentences of "[vb past] been [v-ing] with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A mere two days before she had been deliberating with other world leaders at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe . |
| 6 | Mrs Cohen had been protesting with increasing frequency as day overtook day with no news . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The court was told Tania had been living with another man , Robert Cross , for five months . |
| 10 | The critically-ill youngster had been staying with various people after walking out of home following rows with her stepfather John . |
| 11 | Ever since 1959 , and Bomb , Miles had been experimenting with small magazines and one-offs . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He had been experimenting with dental floss , which was multi-stranded but then broke when rubbed against rocks or weeds . |
| 14 | He had been dealing with human nature all his life ; he should have been able to recognise the symptoms before now . |
| 15 | Brownlow had been dealing with human vagaries for thirty years . |
| 16 | The black eyes that had been sparkling with good humour a moment before had become hard , almost angry . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She had been gesturing with one hand , to emphasize what she said . |
| 19 | The commando had been waiting with disciplined patience some 400 yards ( 365m ) out . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Captain Green , 41 , had been standing with other men from the Royal Artillery 's 32nd Heavy Regiment after a training exercise in Alberta , Canada , when he was hit . |
| 25 | He had said he had been fighting with another man . |
| 26 | Whoever expected the little grey devils I had been assaulting with white arrows and rolling with white healing balls to reappear in my lung ? |
| 27 | During the last minutes she had been talking with extreme rapidity in a light high voice . |