Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] had been having " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girl had claimed that she had been having an affair with the teacher for some months . |
| 2 | She subsequently discovered that they had been having an affair for several months . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When he turned it was obvious from his face that he had been having a long tussle with himself . |
| 5 | Overstrain had brought on tuberculosis in 1939 and I had been having a lot of trouble with my eyes . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |