Example sentences of "[noun] had be [v-ing] with [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Granny had been living with us for some time . |
| 2 | And he remembered that the boy had been fiddling with them . |
| 3 | Corporal Stephen Paterson had been drinking with his friend , Senior Aircraftsman Douglas Bailey , before the catastrophic fire at RAF Hullavington . |
| 4 | Then Waddell 's alibi , Donald Carmichael , who had said at Meehan 's trial that Waddell had been staying with him on the night of the murder , now admitted this was a lie . |
| 5 | The Sun identified the exact hospital and also mentioned how the wife had been living with her mother in a named town since her husband 's arrest . |
| 6 | His uncle , he said , was very displeased that the bargemen had been talking with us . |
| 7 | Craig had been staying with her for some weeks now and she had grown used to seeing him there in her kitchen . |
| 8 | Nurse Lewis had been chewing with her eyes shut . |
| 9 | Apparently , Marr had been driving with his wife when he spun out of control and smashed into a brick wall . |
| 10 | Filmer had been sitting with his back to me , it was true , but near enough to overhear . |
| 11 | Morant , Chambers and others were aware that for ten years or more several LEAs including Sheffield , Nottingham , Wigan , Liverpool , Carlisle , Finchley , Bolton , Cambridge , and Edinburgh had been experimenting with their own employment schemes . |
| 12 | Nicholas had been living with his widowed mother in London . |
| 13 | Meanwhile their investigation had received help from Roxie Farmer 's reluctant admission that her brother had been staying with her , and that he had gone off one day , borrowing her former husband 's bike , and had come back with blood on him . |
| 14 | The courtheard Mr James had been arguing with his pregnant girlfriend 16 year old Jessie Barnes at the time . |
| 15 | His father , John William Gannon , said his son had been living with him since he split up with his wife in January . |