Example sentences of "[pron] had [be] using " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had agreed at the start of this thing that pressing the Harwich local council for housing would probably be more trouble than it was worth : if one of their inspectors had decided to check my circumstances with the port authorities , the customs people would inevitably have found out about the way in which I had been using their cupboard ( and would have had a pink fit , probably ) . |
| 2 | The problem with my files would have been solved if I had been using an IBM machine — but they were way beyond my price range when I bought my first computer . |
| 3 | I had been using my travelling battery shaver while house-sitting and despite what Victor Kiam says , nothing beats hot water and cold steel . |
| 4 | Someone had been using it regularly , and recently . |
| 5 | She was still wearing her apron which , evidently , she had been using to wipe away her tears ; as a result there were grease marks all over her face , giving her the appearance of a participant in a minstrel show . |
| 6 | I asked what she had been knitting in Pattern A before and she recalled that she had been using a pattern where she had used the ‘ enlarge ’ and had asked it to start on R8 . |
| 7 | She tugged at the sides of the hammock and hooked her head forward as she whispered to Ariel , who was standing away from her , the moss she had been using dripping water on to the dust . |
| 8 | Her main interest was in the time course of memory formation , and she had been using a variety of drugs , including agents which disrupt entry of ions such as potassium into the cell , and also protein synthesis inhibitors , to dissect out a series of phases , which she described as short- , intermediate- and long-term memory . |
| 9 | Sarah put the trowel she had been using carefully into her garden basket and removed her garden gloves . |
| 10 | She sat up and rubbed her eyes , colouring furiously as she realised she had been using Roman 's shoulder for a head-rest . |
| 11 | On the landing , she led the way to the small room she had been using as her office . |
| 12 | Overall , when the children on the course were compared to those in the control groups , it was found that none of them had taken up smoking and some who had been using snuff before the start of the programme had now given up . |
| 13 | As in the first survey , over 90 per cent of the opioid users attending Wirral 's main treatment facilities in 1985–6 were daily users of heroin , who had been using heroin for between six months and five years . |
| 14 | The 135 hp engine was used to operating on 80 octane fuel but we had been using 130 octane avgas . |
| 15 | Erm and so therefore er they , they knew tools that they had been using since the period of the war , erm were gradually being overtaken by the new types of ceramic tools . |
| 16 | On March 9 the Polish Foreign Ministry protested to the Lithuanian government about a decision to ban by April 1 all textbooks printed in foreign countries , which in particular affected Polish schools in Lithuania as they had been using history books printed in Poland . |
| 17 | Miliutin and other committed reformers had hoped to assign peasants the areas they were working already , but in the event they lost about 20 per cent of the land they had been using . |
| 18 | I have been following with interest the Gardeners ' World programmes where Nigel Colborn had been designing a new garden , especially when he had been using plants for the shady corner . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Dr Hadley , who had asked the questions , ceased to play with the two-toned ball pen he had been using as a remote muscle of his tongue . |
| 21 | The famous sequence when the helicopters gather in the sky before the great attack has music with it — very familiar music ! — but , do you know , I was so gripped by the power of Coppola 's image , the helicopters , the music , that it was n't until many , many hours afterwards that I realized what the music was he had been using . |
| 22 | He had been using the 1-iron , even though it was a par-5 , but he was afraid of dropping behind . |
| 23 | The fire was caused through the carelessness of one of the workmen in blowing out a bench lamp he had been using , and putting it in his drawer at 5.30 pm the previous night , without the fire being properly extinguished on the cotton wick . |
| 24 | He had been using an ingenious method . |
| 25 | He had been using a great deal of unnecessary and inappropriate tension when reciting . |
| 26 | Alexander then placed two extra mirrors either side of the original mirror that he had been using . |
| 27 | James told magistrates that he had been using speed for about five years and injected himself three or four times a month . |
| 28 | Within minutes he had reached the streets leading to the allotment gardens that he would skirt , to find the phone box he had been using all the time he had been in hiding . |
| 29 | All that those LA police offices had to say to get acquitted of beating Rodney King was that they believed he had been using PCP . |
| 30 | You see , he knew if they had taken him in and it was proved he had been using her , or , as a little bird told me , he had got her ready for shipment , they would have surely sent him along the line this time , and stripped the house of all his fine pieces . |