Example sentences of "i [vb base] been [v-ing] with " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Then I forget that I 've been joking with her then she tells me off so I do n't bother any more . |
| 2 | I 've been staying with Aunt Alicia for the past six months … |
| 3 | I 've been staying with Rose , Drew 's mother , since we heard about the crash . |
| 4 | The sort of prices which people charged and I 've been speaking with Jack only this morning , the sort of prices people charged , started way , way , way down , and then went way , way , way up . |
| 5 | But yes , abroad lies our final year of partnership , although I 've been toying with the idea of alighting upon a play by Shakespeare hitherto unknown , unseen and unenacted . ’ |
| 6 | I 've been chatting with the river folk about the dog . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I have a Korg M1R and a Korg Wave Station , and that 's what I 've been writing with . |
| 8 | I may be a little bit behind the times , but over the last couple of days I 've been experimenting with voice mail . |
| 9 | I 'm 40 , I 've been living with my fiancé , who 's the same age , for three years and I think the world of him . |
| 10 | Q I 've been living with my boyfriend for three years , and we have two children , Liam , aged two and Jade , six months . |
| 11 | " Lord , I feel as if I 've been living with this case for ever ! " |
| 12 | I 've been dealing with enquiries for our products all day . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been dealing with your affairs for some considerable time , Jenna , ’ he pointed out , as if it had been a dreadful chore wished on him by some unseen and malevolent spirit . |
| 14 | Let me tell you the sort of guys I 've been dealing with for years . ’ |
| 15 | I 've been working with you for weeks . |
| 16 | I 've been working with him since ‘ Expecting To Fly ’ in 1968 . ’ |
| 17 | Carmen Callil said : ‘ I 've been working with Frances Coady since 1986 , when she joined Jonathan Cape , and one of the greatest pleasures of my working life has been to observe the publishing genius she has brought to beat on the creation of Vintage . |
| 18 | I 've been working with the deaf-aid for over a week , for God 's sake , and I realised how much I rely on it . |
| 19 | What I want to cover now is a type of network that we study a lot in the computer architecture group and I 've been working with for years and years and years erm called the N tuple network . |
| 20 | ‘ I suppose I 've seen another side to David Markham since I 've been working with him . ’ |
| 21 | I 've been talking with Father O'Harte , and I 'm come back . |
| 22 | Some of the reasons they encountered for not losing weight included ‘ I have n't been to the toilet yet today ’ , ‘ I 've been arguing with my husband ’ , ‘ I absorb fat through my skin ’ , ( especially popular with people working in chip shops and serving school meals ) and ‘ it 's the cough medicine I 'm having for my sore throat ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been practising with a ball on my own . |
| 24 | The point that I 've been making with the various percentages is that those negotiations will become unrealistic if on average , you 're talking about forty some percent of sites having to go for affordable housing on a negotiated basis . |
| 25 | Now I can say I 've been mixing with both the noble and the notorious . |
| 26 | Any of my old school friends in Wallingford that know me er well they 'll just never believe that I can run 26 miles because I do n't know if when you were at school , but when er when we used to have a cross-country run I was the one at the back and usually the P E instructor used to go round and whack us with a slipper , you know the slow ones and I was unfortunately one of those , but er now I 've been running with the Bicester Road Runners for what 2 years , er half , I 've done a few half marathons , nothing anywhere near 26 miles , I 've , my furthest run until yesterday was 16 miles , and yesterday , injured , with a bandage round my knee , I managed 18 miles , and I 'm pleased to say it 's still holding out and I 'm quietly confident that I 'm going to complete this , and like I say , if I can er well , just get the local businesses in Bicester interested and to support me , I say however small , just a , you know , if they , a penny a mile from just a few of the businesses in Bicester and , well , the Bible school could have , you know , a few pounds coming to them , which I 'm sure they 'd be , you know , greatly received . |
| 27 | I 've been playing with that idea all day . |
| 28 | I 've been playing with my best teddies . ’ |
| 29 | and I 've been playing with my computer . |
| 30 | On several occasions I have been chatting with someone who relies on speechreading , and suddenly all the lights have gone out , cutting us off completely . |