Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] with [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Margaret , who had been living with her married sister in Oxford , soon came to join her mother . |
| 2 | Nicholas had been living with his widowed mother in London . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He had been toying with her that day on the river , playing games to satisfy some peculiar quirk of his character . |
| 6 | The courtheard Mr James had been arguing with his pregnant girlfriend 16 year old Jessie Barnes at the time . |