Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , General Noriega had been flirting with the Soviet Union and , according to US intelligence sources , continues to receive arms from Moscow . |
| 2 | She claimed she and the murdered girl had been drinking with the old man , and that he had killed her friend , but the old man was acquitted and McLachlan was sentenced to hang . |
| 3 | So the young policeman ( who had been eating with the other young men in the passage outside the guestroom ) came in and read the transcript of the court judgement which had condemned the boy from Zliten . |
| 4 | Jeanne had been living with the Communist Maquis since the disastrous parachute drop over two months ago . |
| 5 | With a gloomy wantonness of imagination I had been coquetting with the hideous possibles of disappointment . |
| 6 | Frances Black had been touring with the traditional band Arcady but in 1990 was asked to do a few solo gigs in the north . |
| 7 | This microlight had been flying with the right wingtip set to maximum incidence , but with the left at one setting of reduced incidence from neutral . |
| 8 | Mgr José Cardoso Sobrinho , a conservative who had replaced Câmara when the latter retired in 1984 , called a halt to church involvement in human rights work in the archdiocese ; on Dec. 7 , 1989 , he dissolved a justice and peace committee which had been working with the poor , while on Dec. 14 eight priests , two of them French , were ordered to leave the diocese immediately . |
| 9 | Grossbancher , an executive with the French company Bouygues Offshore , had been working with the Angolan state oil company Sonangol . |