Example sentences of "i had been [v-ing] with " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | If I had been staying with you I … |
2 | With a gloomy wantonness of imagination I had been coquetting with the hideous possibles of disappointment . |
3 | I had been struggling with tears for some time and now I let them flow freely . |
4 | I had been dealing with trivia but this was different . |
5 | He was overlooking the fact that I had been living with Jean-Claude for more than three years . |
6 | It had been impossible to think of the future since John 's abduction , but 17 April was only weeks away and I had been discussing with Chris and Nick how we might mark it in some way . |
7 | ‘ I had been rowing with my dad since I was little , so I did n't want to go to his new family with my brother . |
8 | I had bought a pair of trousers and a T-shirt when I had been shopping with a friend . |
9 | Whoever expected the little grey devils I had been assaulting with white arrows and rolling with white healing balls to reappear in my lung ? |
10 | Next I went to the Clerecia , where I had been sitting with Dana watching that wall-clock 's gift pendulum busily wagging away on the wall in front of the great baroque gilt altar . |
11 | ‘ Before the student demonstrations I had been working with a group of Latin American intellectuals in Paris , helping bring out a magazine . |