Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] had [be] [v-ing] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact was that for many years she and her father had been living with a dangerous illusion ; and the illusion was that they were entirely virtuous in their endeavours , entirely on the angels ' side . |
| 2 | Her daughter had been sleeping with boys , and men since she was fourteen . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | His mother had been singing with a company playing in a northern seaside town and he had lain on his bed in the boarding house , biting his nails , sunk under a terrible inertia . |
| 5 | His father , John William Gannon , said his son had been living with him since he split up with his wife in January . |