Example sentences of "[noun] had [adv] [be] [v-ing] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Falconer had apparently been playing with the letters of the name , breaking them up , distancing each from the other . |
| 2 | Wordsworth had also been experimenting with blank verse , and with the example of Coleridge 's Frost at Midnight before him , was able to reproduce ‘ the movement of the mind ’ in Tintern Abbey . |
| 3 | UN officials had reportedly been negotiating with Somali clan leaders to obtain approval for the troops ' dispatch . |
| 4 | If the river had still been working with any serious use of its productive capacity , this presentation of delightful monuments would not have been possible . |
| 5 | All this would be understandable , of course , if these local forces had merely been dealing with minor coastal raiding , and one can not always be sure that their enemies were very numerous . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , one of the Sheriff 's impromptu posse had earlier been drinking with the brothers and had noticed George 's notorious mutilated thumb . |
| 7 | As a result , Kandel began to make the sort of experiments that those working on the biochemistry of memory had already been struggling with ; adding radioactive precursors of protein to isolated ganglia or to cells in a dish , trying to identify the protein products , and to distinguish those made uniquely or in raised quantities during memory formation from the many others . |