Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [pron] had [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 And they were grown apiece while he was away and they were better than ever and the deal was been that he had was gon na give them the best two cattle you see and this was this was the best two animals he had .
2 His injuries were worse than they would have been if he had been wearing a seat belt .
3 A second and earlier poem Moliant Cadwallon ( ‘ In Praise of Cadwallon ’ ) , possibly by Cadwallon 's bard , Afan Ferddig , celebrates Cadwallon 's victorious progress against Eadwine ‘ the deceitful ’ after his return from Ireland , where he may have been in exile , though an alternative possibility is that he had been gathering reinforcements there .
4 In the launderette it was warm and cosy ; here Maggie made friends and fans and she had inconsequential conversations which mysteriously made her a member of the local community in a way she had never been when she had been fighting for the area 's well-being .
5 What proved to be the trouble was that they had been munching handfuls of powdered soap .
6 Still she wondered who it was that she had been responding to .
7 Her boast was that she had been dancing at every RAF and American air force station within a 30-mile radius , and that she would n't look at any male with a rank lower than Squadron Leader or the American equivalent .
8 I felt that way myself — the difference was that he had been living longer .
9 His case was that he had been using the public lavatory for proper purposes when the the police burst into his cubicle and arrested him , and that he had had no contact of any kind with the co-defendant .
10 His excuse was that he had been praying .
11 And who was it who said that when he agreed to play the Devil in the Witches of Eastwick , it was because he had been practising for the role all his life ?
12 It was after he had been spending a Sunday with her that the accident happened .
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