Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [be] [v-ing] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We think one soldier had been playing with the weapon when it went off . |
| 2 | A stranger had been chatting with Mrs O for some time . |
| 3 | The defender had been playing with Limerick on a short-term contract . |
| 4 | Granny had been living with us for some time . |
| 5 | And he remembered that the boy had been fiddling with them . |
| 6 | The critically-ill youngster had been staying with various people after walking out of home following rows with her stepfather John . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The unemployed electrician had been living with girlfriend Andrea McCardle at the flat in Lee Park Drive , Belle Vale , for two years . |
| 9 | When they 'd first re-entered the apartment the place had been crawling with a crowd of men who were mending the air-conditioning , installing a computer and modem to a fresh telephone line , and plugging in the dreaded fax machine . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The commando had been waiting with disciplined patience some 400 yards ( 365m ) out . |
| 12 | The Sun identified the exact hospital and also mentioned how the wife had been living with her mother in a named town since her husband 's arrest . |
| 13 | The wind that day had been increasing with the approach of bad weather and the instructor , who had decided that it was time to stop , was towing the glider to the hangar . |
| 14 | The baby had been endeavouring with grim determination to haul himself from the floor on to Alexandra 's knee , gripping handfuls of her skirts to assist himself and heaving with astonishing strength . |
| 15 | The fact was that for many years she and her father had been living with a dangerous illusion ; and the illusion was that they were entirely virtuous in their endeavours , entirely on the angels ' side . |
| 16 | An article in the Timber Trades Journal reported Michael Latham , chairman of a major UK timber firm and then president of the European tropical timber importers union , as saying that : ‘ The entry of the WWF into the field enlarged the scale of the problem for the timber trade , since before that time the trade had been dealing with small local conservationist groups ’ . |
| 17 | A conviction ensued where the supervisor had been drinking with the driver who was seen to swerve from side to side ( Crampton v Fish ( 1969 ) , 113 SJ 1003 ) . |
| 18 | Her daughter had been sleeping with boys , and men since she was fourteen . |
| 19 | England was finally forced to look at what the rest of the world had been doing with the game . |
| 20 | ‘ Mr Gould was worn out by our reverses , regretted the loss of time , and this very afternoon had been declaring with many apologies that he must go back in the Vansittart . |
| 21 | Amid the protests to date , perhaps the most telling line has come from Newtownards woman Phyllis Bibby whose petition demanding urgent changes in the system had been meeting with a poor response . |
| 22 | The company had been working with DBase III , but without much joy , simply because of the system 's relative inflexibility and technical complexity . |
| 23 | Meanwhile their investigation had received help from Roxie Farmer 's reluctant admission that her brother had been staying with her , and that he had gone off one day , borrowing her former husband 's bike , and had come back with blood on him . |
| 24 | His mother had been singing with a company playing in a northern seaside town and he had lain on his bed in the boarding house , biting his nails , sunk under a terrible inertia . |
| 25 | His father , John William Gannon , said his son had been living with him since he split up with his wife in January . |