Example sentences of "and had be [v-ing] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd moved over by the window and had been reaching for a chair , but now she stopped . |
| 2 | I had just had my forty-first birthday and had been going through a very unhappy time , not eating properly because I was economizing so much , and becoming properly run down . |
| 3 | Tim , from Great Sankey , was a dedicated fan of the club and had been shopping for an Everton strip on the day of the Bridge Street bombing . |
| 4 | Val had four children aged between seventeen and six , and had been working as a childminder at home to supplement the family income . |
| 5 | Mr Telford , who took redundancy from the pit in 1988 and had been working as a mining contractor at Rossington , near Doncaster , allegedly threatened a man with the gun to gain entry . |