Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] had [be] [v-ing] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next I went to the Clerecia , where I had been sitting with Dana watching that wall-clock 's gift pendulum busily wagging away on the wall in front of the great baroque gilt altar . |
| 2 | Isolated from her sons , Diana had been expecting a visit from Gilbey at Althorp House where she had been staying with her brother , Charles . |
| 3 | If I had been staying with you I … |
| 4 | The English had not been acquiring new subjects in the first century and a half of their overseas expansion ; for the next century and a half they acquired new subjects at a rate which would have been quite inconceivable if they had been dealing with men and women who thought about their political rights and obligations in terms of nationalism . |
| 5 | If it had been pouring with rain the walk would have been cancelled , and that would have been more in keeping with Lucy 's mood , which was one of deep depression . |
| 6 | However these two bases are distinct and it is clear from Harman J 's judgment that even if he had been dealing with an express confidential information clause in an employment agreement he would have declined to have followed Faccenda . |
| 7 | The time difference between London and Mexico City is six hours , and because we had been travelling with the sun , it was still quite high in the sky as we descended into the sepia haze that hung over the whole flat expanse of what had once been a great lake . |
| 8 | Since he had been going with her he had been having a great time . |
| 9 | A mere two days before she had been deliberating with other world leaders at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe . |
| 10 | I had bought a pair of trousers and a T-shirt when I had been shopping with a friend . |
| 11 | When she had been wrestling with him she had used the foul language common among gypsies . |
| 12 | Being quite intuitive , I did notice there was a funny tension between Ken Pitt and David and I thought that probably what had happened was that David had not been satisfied performing ‘ When I Live My Dream ’ with the old backing tracks , as he had been working with Tony Visconti and had all these new tunes and productions and ways of doing things in his head . |