Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benjamin and I had been entertaining the group with a French madrigal , my deep bass a smooth foil to my master 's well-modulated tenor : a stupid little song about a maid who lost her wealth and her virtue in the great city . |
| 2 | For some reason , Rains had been wearing a crown with his evening clothes . |
| 3 | Awoke to find I had been sharing a room with a group of nuns . |
| 4 | NICK FALDO stirred himself at last in the Masters at Augusta National yesterday when a third round of 68 made him five under par for the tournament before a storm caused a three-hour delay that had a disastrous effect on defending champion Ian Woosnam , who had been sharing the lead with Craig Parry . |
| 5 | Three local anglers had been watching the pantomime with great enjoyment , and I have yet to live it down . |
| 6 | Some said Charles had been having an affair with an owner 's wife , others that he was involved in some gambling scam . |
| 7 | Lita Dowell , prosecuting , said Thomas had been having an affair with Mrs Dean for four months before the attack in August . |
| 8 | Lita Dowell , prosecuting , said that Thomas had been having an affair with Mrs Dean for four months before the attack in August . |
| 9 | The girl had claimed that she had been having an affair with the teacher for some months . |
| 10 | Her husband had been having an affair with Suzanne Regan . |
| 11 | Melissa played thoughtfully with her empty coffee mug and reflected on what now seemed the certainty that Rodney Shergold had been having an affair with Angy . |
| 12 | He got a job in insurance and the marriage lasted about three years and three months , then Bunny found out that his quiet , dutiful wife had been having an affair with her boss at the food research place where she worked for roughly three years and two months . |
| 13 | This letter had purportedly been written by his wife to him saying that he was not the father of the child and she had been having an affair with a man called Nigel , ’ said Mr Klevan . |
| 14 | I had been having an affair with her husband . ’ |
| 15 | Stewart Skett , 21 , who had been having an affair with Mrs Green , a student nurse , yesterday denied having anything to do with her death . |
| 16 | The court had heard she had been having an affair with Mr Skett , a family friend . |
| 17 | The engineers had been investigating a fault with overhead cables in the field at Bromyard in Herefordshire . |
| 18 | It was as if she had been playing a part with all her might for several months , but it had sapped her energy . |
| 19 | They seemed to be positioned at random as if the guests had been playing a game with them and not sitting around the table in an orderly fashion . |
| 20 | He had been pacing the room with slow majestic energy ending by peering down through the venetian blind at Madison below . |