Example sentences of "had [adv] been [v-ing] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw the evil light in his eyes and knew that so far they had only been playing with me : their real intent was to kill . |
| 2 | He had obviously been arguing with it — when Masklin walked up he glared at him and said , ‘ It wo n't do what I tell it ! ’ |
| 3 | All this would be understandable , of course , if these local forces had merely been dealing with minor coastal raiding , and one can not always be sure that their enemies were very numerous . |
| 4 | He had merely been playing with her . |
| 5 | The mobile radio truck , belonging to the Mass Communications Organization of Thailand , had apparently been interfering with military radio frequencies , and the armed forces sought the removal from the Cabinet of Police Capt. Chalerm Yubamrung , a Minister attached to the Prime Minister 's Office , when Chalerm publicly criticized the military over the affair . |
| 6 | She was saved from that particular choice by a boy of about seven , who had apparently been playing with his train set in the porch . |
| 7 | Falconer had apparently been playing with the letters of the name , breaking them up , distancing each from the other . |
| 8 | So Trumbull started moving the camera in and out , and stopped the lens down to a tiny aperture for maximum depth of field ( he had already been experimenting with zoom lenses for the cockpit readouts in other sequences ) . |
| 9 | As a result , Kandel began to make the sort of experiments that those working on the biochemistry of memory had already been struggling with ; adding radioactive precursors of protein to isolated ganglia or to cells in a dish , trying to identify the protein products , and to distinguish those made uniquely or in raised quantities during memory formation from the many others . |
| 10 | Rachel , who had already been battling with unpredictable sensations brought on by the close proximity of David clad only in his brief black swimming-trunks , felt her cheeks flame and could n't bring herself to look at him . |
| 11 | An agricultural relief committee was established in 1983 by a handful of young agricultural engineers , some of whom had already been working with ‘ the voluntary work committees ’ , a network of skilled and unskilled workers which had been operating since the mid-1970s . |
| 12 | Now she saw that he had just been dealing with the easy , practical part first . |
| 13 | Over his face quivered shades of the sniggers he had just been enjoying with his mates . |
| 14 | He had a half-beard and he looked dirty , as if he had just been working with hammers and bricks and wood and chisels . |
| 15 | I had just been talking with Jenny about her family , yourself and Mrs Connon , that same Saturday night . ’ |
| 16 | To talk to them , you would think she had still been playing with toys . |
| 17 | If the river had still been working with any serious use of its productive capacity , this presentation of delightful monuments would not have been possible . |
| 18 | He watched Gerald Kaufman buy a copy of the Evening Standard ; he had probably been lunching with the BBC . |
| 19 | Until the sudden realisation that the world 's best kept secret was about to be broken , Ashe , because of special affinity with Yannick Noah and his own long run as the United States Davis Cup captain , had probably been reading with interest about the rise and fall of Noah as captain of the French Davis Cup Team . |
| 20 | Wordsworth had also been experimenting with blank verse , and with the example of Coleridge 's Frost at Midnight before him , was able to reproduce ‘ the movement of the mind ’ in Tintern Abbey . |
| 21 | UN officials had reportedly been negotiating with Somali clan leaders to obtain approval for the troops ' dispatch . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , one of the Sheriff 's impromptu posse had earlier been drinking with the brothers and had noticed George 's notorious mutilated thumb . |
| 23 | But peering more closely he could see that someone had recently been writing with a fountain pen . |
| 24 | I had never been walking with flags before . |