Example sentences of "had been [verb] with [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her paternal family is opposed to the sect and some years before these events Miss T. had been reunited with her paternal grandmother and her father and for the past two years she had been living in circumstances which would not be approved by the sect . |
| 2 | Margaret , who had been living with her married sister in Oxford , soon came to join her mother . |
| 3 | Nicholas had been living with his widowed mother in London . |
| 4 | He had been staying with our best man , Leading Seaman Geoffrey Bond , who , for health reasons was now leaving the Navy to do work in the coal mines . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He had been toying with her that day on the river , playing games to satisfy some peculiar quirk of his character . |
| 7 | If one person was involved in making the whole device themselves , it would work better for them , because it had been impregnated with their own vibrations . |
| 8 | The courtheard Mr James had been arguing with his pregnant girlfriend 16 year old Jessie Barnes at the time . |
| 9 | And she had been entrusted with its safe keeping . |
| 10 | Encouraged , she admitted that she had been entrusted with their last £2000 , and had bought a houseboat , in point of fact , the barge Grace . |