Example sentences of "[pron] had be having " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been having trouble with arthritis for years , and nine years ago had a hip replacement . |
| 2 | Bill : I had been having sex , occasionally , with men since I was about fourteen but I had no gay social life at all . |
| 3 | Overstrain had brought on tuberculosis in 1939 and I had been having a lot of trouble with my eyes . |
| 4 | I had been having an affair with her husband . ’ |
| 5 | She is seen to suffer for what she did , and Mary , the other sister , likewise ‘ paid heavily ’ : let down by an Indian student with whom she had been having a long affair . |
| 6 | She had been having fits of anger , and had been neglecting her children , I was told . |
| 7 | She had been having a little innocent fun . |
| 8 | She claimed she had been having a passionate affair with Mary Jo 's husband Joey , 36 . |
| 9 | The girl had claimed that she had been having an affair with the teacher for some months . |
| 10 | It was as if she had been having a nightmare — terrible , perhaps , but still only a dream in which the money could vanish like fairy gold — and woken up to find it was true . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The court had heard she had been having an affair with Mr Skett , a family friend . |
| 13 | A sixteen-year-old girl ( they 're always sixteen in this story ) who had been having regular sex with her boyfriend , began worrying that he might lose interest in her if he had to keep wearing a condom . |
| 14 | But Mr Frobisher , who had been having trouble with his male leads , assured us he was just what was needed . |
| 15 | ‘ You mean , someone who had been having a lesbian affair with Eddie ? |
| 16 | Rachel crawled into the confined space beside him , and with a little jolt she saw it was Len Seager , the man who had been having alcohol-related problems . |
| 17 | And Eddie Gilfoyle , who had been having an affair , tried to make it appear that she 'd committed suicide , it was alleged . |
| 18 | Stewart Skett , 21 , who had been having an affair with Mrs Green , a student nurse , yesterday denied having anything to do with her death . |
| 19 | Suppose they had been having an affair , and she 'd dropped him ? ’ |
| 20 | They had been having their usual discussion about food . |
| 21 | She subsequently discovered that they had been having an affair for several months . |
| 22 | They had been having sexual intercourse about three times a day , every day , for the last six weeks , but Maisie still maintained that Robert was faking it . |
| 23 | They had been having dinner separately in the harem quarters , as they always did , the night that it happened . |
| 24 | ‘ We have two wills on file , ’ Timothy Hutton said , reaching the end of whatever internal debate he had been having , ‘ but the second , which was made in anticipation of her marriage to Mr Hawick , can not of course be submitted for Probate since that marriage did not take place . |
| 25 | Harry turned back to Sam , with whom he had been having a private conversation on a quite different subject . |
| 26 | Since he had been going with her he had been having a great time . |
| 27 | One day , after he had been having lessons for some time , his father was called away by the boss : there was a horse in the ditch : it had gone to sleep on the edge and had rolled upside down into the ditch and could n't get out . |
| 28 | At one minute it seemed that he had been having a fine old dream about Humans and banquets and the Frost Giantess frying on a spit . |
| 29 | A figure moved across from the dark corner in which he had been having an earnest conversation with a black boy , and sat down next to her . |
| 30 | When he turned it was obvious from his face that he had been having a long tussle with himself . |