Example sentences of "he had [been] [v-ing] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Molotov concluded the parallel negotiations which he had been conducting with German representatives and thus secured two years grace while partitioning Poland with Nazi Germany . |
| 2 | He had been experimenting with dental floss , which was multi-stranded but then broke when rubbed against rocks or weeds . |
| 3 | The drawings were in a new style he had been experimenting with recently , and now , he felt , he had got it just right . |
| 4 | And , it 's not a text but perhaps a verse that we could use as a , as a springboard is verse twenty seven , and it says at this point his disciples came and they marvelled that he had been speaking with a woman ! |
| 5 | He had been dealing with human nature all his life ; he should have been able to recognise the symptoms before now . |
| 6 | He had been dealing with them on and off all his life . |
| 7 | However these two bases are distinct and it is clear from Harman J 's judgment that even if he had been dealing with an express confidential information clause in an employment agreement he would have declined to have followed Faccenda . |
| 8 | A thud of chopping — movement between the tree trunks — a labourer was coming towards him , one of the consignment of convicts he had ordered through a merchant in Bideford , he had his machete in his hand , he was not menacing , he held out his spare hand in a strange appeal , lifting his face , which was crossed by deep scars , wounds across his eyes had puckered them right in so that he moved like a blind sleeper , closer and closer — Sir John woke up sweating , surprised to find himself alone , and then remembered : he had been drinking with his cousin Alexander Menzies of Bolfracks , the last bottle must have sent him under . |
| 9 | Then Candy brought forward a witness who assured police he had been drinking with the prisoner in the Star , another central Reading public house , at the time of the murder . |
| 10 | ‘ No , he had been toying with the idea of proposing to Fiona , whom he had known all his life and whom he liked . |
| 11 | He had been toying with her that day on the river , playing games to satisfy some peculiar quirk of his character . |
| 12 | Slowly , he put down the silver pen he had been toying with and stood up , walking to her at the windows . |
| 13 | She knew he was waiting for her to agree , and it was desperation , pure and simple , she thought , that made her remember the elegant blonde he had been dining with that particular night . |
| 14 | He had been staying with our best man , Leading Seaman Geoffrey Bond , who , for health reasons was now leaving the Navy to do work in the coal mines . |
| 15 | Burun remembered that the man 's name was Yuan , and that he had been staying with Nogai . |
| 16 | He arrived in Canterbury on 27 May 669 , having been escorted from Gaul , where he had been staying with Agilbert , by a representative of King Ecgberht , not of Oswiu ( HE IV , 1 ) . |
| 17 | He said he had been living with his parents in Fazakerley , and had been sub-letting the flat to another man . |
| 18 | If you read a few er , verses , a chapter or so earlier on , he had been speaking to one man to a er er a high official from Ethiopia , and he had been sharing with him from Isaiah chapter fifty three , the message of Jesus Christ . |
| 19 | Walking slowly through autumn streets he had been wrestling with the ways in which it appeared to him that Coleridge had made use of a now little known book , Ridley 's Tales of the Genii . |
| 20 | In his attempt to construct a model of the molecule , given the valencies of these two elements , there was no obvious way that the twelve atoms could be arranged into a conventional chain , and he had been wrestling with the problem for quite some time . |
| 21 | In desperation , the previous week , he had ordered the children to select a favourite passage from books he had been reading with them , write it out in their best handwriting and then add some comments on what they enjoyed about the piece and about the book in general . |
| 22 | Sometimes on Sundays he would take her to the fields where he had been helping with the harvest , to see the rabbits , or a nest of mice . |
| 23 | Both Himmler and Hitler disapproved of all this dangerous activity — they needed him — and Heydrich often had to sneak back to Berlin on late-night transport planes to cover the fact that he had been battling with the RAF instead of with the enemies of the State at RHSA headquarters . |
| 24 | He was surprised , since for all Boy 's nights out , during which , as the man correctly assumed , Boy had sex with many different men , he never received visits , calls or letters from the men he had been sleeping with . |
| 25 | He had said he had been fighting with another man . |
| 26 | Despite all his dissembling about any new industry alliances over the past few months , Carlo de Benedetti told Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA 's annual meeting that he had been negotiating with Digital Equipment Corp , and revealed details of the alliance . |
| 27 | Since 1171 he had been negotiating with Count Humbert of Maurienne . |
| 28 | Kasparov said he had been negotiating with the FIDE president , Florencio Campomanes , for several days to try to persuade him to transfer the federation 's rights to stage the championship to the PCA and make Manchester a ‘ transitionary ’ match . |
| 29 | He had been arguing with the police , and was angry with them . |
| 30 | Who would ever guess from the benign expression on his face that just a moment ago he had been exploding with anger ? |