Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] with [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abie Klugman had long grown used to the taunt — it was Aronson 's stock joke for all of the ten years they had been lodging with Mrs Neumann , and he no longer minded it . |
| 2 | This discrepancy could be explained if North America and Europe had been moving with respect to each other as well as with respect to the magnetic pole . |
| 3 | For months they had been trying with divets and tackle to hoist the appropriate two-ton stone upright and into its hole . |
| 4 | When she had left Madam Lundy 's presence earlier she had been shivering with reaction , but that had now passed , leaving her calm , her options clear . |
| 5 | I had been struggling with tears for some time and now I let them flow freely . |
| 6 | Wales also filed a clean bill of health after their stint at the National Stadium yesterday with Mike Hall and Tony Clement , who had been struggling with groin and ankle injuries respectively , satisfying the medics . |
| 7 | Among them was John Ingram , who said that he and others had been drinking with Drew at 1.35pm that lunchtime , and that Drew had mentioned going to Cross Street to get a paper . |
| 8 | Bream , who had been adopted by Mrs Margaret Bream before she married the guitarist , had been drinking with friends at local pubs on the day of the killing . |
| 9 | A stranger had been chatting with Mrs O for some time . |
| 10 | Ronnie Moran , who had been chatting with Mr Souness about the match hours before the Liverpool manager headed for the operating theatre , will have to report failure in his first game in charge . |
| 11 | Bob Rafelson had been toiling with Nicholson 's friend and associate Carol Eastman on a script for a new film and as it came towards completion , they began to see it as a perfect vehicle for BBS to capitalize on its success with Easy Rider . |
| 12 | Labourer Jamie Gorrie , 20 , of Horndean , Hants , had been helping with inquiries about his 15-year-old sister , who died 19 days ago . |
| 13 | A previously well 15 year old , who had been living with friends , became acutely violent and confused shortly after his return home . |
| 14 | As Lou 's story progressed , however , it emerged that she had been living with Rick for several months and had high hopes of becoming engaged to him herself . |
| 15 | He was overlooking the fact that I had been living with Jean-Claude for more than three years . |
| 16 | The unemployed electrician had been living with girlfriend Andrea McCardle at the flat in Lee Park Drive , Belle Vale , for two years . |
| 17 | Jimmy had been staying with Suzannah days before she was killed . |
| 18 | Mrs Keith , Senior , who had been staying with Jim and Jean during Tina s confinement , then came back in the trap with Bruce to take up her old room at the Mackenzie 's again , and to help Hilda look after the house and wee Billy . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | Burun remembered that the man 's name was Yuan , and that he had been staying with Nogai . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I had been dealing with trivia but this was different . |
| 23 | Mr Kallisher told the jury : ‘ The defendant tried to raise in the minds of the police a suspicion that Julie had been dealing with drugs stolen from the hospital and perhaps her murder was connected with that , not with him . ’ |
| 24 | The English had not been acquiring new subjects in the first century and a half of their overseas expansion ; for the next century and a half they acquired new subjects at a rate which would have been quite inconceivable if they had been dealing with men and women who thought about their political rights and obligations in terms of nationalism . |
| 25 | British Telecommunications Plc says that the bid by AT&T Co to operate in the UK could speed liberalisation of the key North Atlantic telecommunications route , and reckons that the matter could be settled within months ; AT&T says that it would much preferred to have entered the UK market with a local partner but saw no prospect of that ( it had been negotiating with Cable & Wireless Plc for a stake in Mercury Communications Ltd ; meanwhile each side throws regulatory brickbats at the other , with AT&T complaining that it has to deal — on a confidential basis — with British Telecom on interconnect and access charges where in the US , charges are much lower and have to be applied within the operator 's own business as well — and that simply applying for a licence in the UK costs $70,000 against just $610 in the US ; British Telecom complains that it was n't allowed to increase its 20% stake in McCaw Cellular Communications Inc and achieve a management position — and likely would be barred from buying MCI Communications Inc , where AT&T would be free to buy Vodafone Group Plc — or even Mercury , outright , if it wanted to . |
| 26 | The issue of sanctions against Italy was , therefore , to the fore and the evidence that Sir Samuel Hoare , the Foreign Secretary , had been negotiating with Pierre Laval , his French equivalent , to arrange a plan to settle the Italian — Abyssinian war by giving one-third of Abyssinia to Italy was not well received . |
| 27 | Since 1171 he had been negotiating with Count Humbert of Maurienne . |
| 28 | He was working against time ; he had promised Browne that he would complete the play by the summer , and already Browne had been negotiating with Rudolf Bing , the director of the Edinburgh Festival , to have The Cocktail Party performed as part of that year 's event . |
| 29 | Unbeknown to him , it had been negotiating with Robert Maxwell , and sold the Daily Mirror behind his back . |
| 30 | Who would ever guess from the benign expression on his face that just a moment ago he had been exploding with anger ? |