Example sentences of "had be [verb] [art] lot of " in BNC.

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1 The French manufacturers of the Exocet missile , Aerospatiale , had been done a lot of good to by the Falklands imbroglio and reported far better order books .
2 He had been drinking a lot of beer , but he says he heard cries .
3 I had been getting a lot of this .
4 I picked one of them up and was struck to the heart , for it was obvious that he had been writing a lot of poetry , all of it , so it seemed to me , very good .
5 The girl had been seeing a lot of another young man , an estate agent called Jose , and that association continued after the marriage — long after !
6 She had been reading a lot of self-help books and this was her conclusion .
7 Overstrain had brought on tuberculosis in 1939 and I had been having a lot of trouble with my eyes .
8 But she was aware that she had been preoccupied a lot of the time , all too aware of the mountain of work before her , and that it was rather a long time since she and her daughter had had any special outings together .
9 ‘ We had been playing a lot of country and blues songs before we started to play a couple of Hendrix numbers in the set and it just caught on so we added more , ’ said Slim .
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