Example sentences of "and had be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What made this worse was that we ( there were a few of us Leeds fans in my school ) we friends with a west brom fan , and had been taking the piss all year … had nt they recently gone up to div 1 ? |
| 2 | Robyn 's mother , Vera Williams , of Wilton Village , who is now looking after Penny , said since her daughter had her baby she had suffered postnatal depression and had been taking various prescribed drugs . |
| 3 | Interviewed in the trade union newspaper Trud , Pavlov claimed that ( unnamed ) banks in Switzerland , Austria and Canada had co-operated with non-governmental Soviet organizations to buy large-denomination rouble notes in massive quantities on the black market , and had been smuggling them out of the country . |
| 4 | ‘ You have to remember they are the current league champions and had been training three nights a week . |
| 5 | He had not been eating properly and had been drinking more than usual . |
| 6 | The court heard he 'd spent the day hunting and had been drinking to keep up his body warmth . |
| 7 | A vice-president of the Huddersfield League , he had been active in promoting junior cricket in Huddersfield for over 40 years and had been organising their Joe Lumb sides since the competition started . |
| 8 | Mrs Bootyman said Naomi had visited the weekend before her death on January 14 and had been acting differently . |
| 9 | She 'd moved over by the window and had been reaching for a chair , but now she stopped . |
| 10 | I 'd had them sussed for ages and had been encouraging them to articulate their growing awareness of their lesbianism . |
| 11 | He was n't going for a joy trip , he was n't going out in the boat just to se to while away an hour or so to relax and to unwind , he was n't going there to , just to get away from the crowd of people that had been following him and had been listening to him , he had a purpose in going in into the boat , to go to the other side . |
| 12 | Still behind her , Luke had bent his head and had been murmuring his taunts close to one ear , while the strong arms he had bound about her waist were tightening securely , making her captivity a torment . |
| 13 | Michael had had pain in his back for years , and had been receiving treatment for it . |
| 14 | He had drunk three glasses of home-made wine and had been trying to watch a film on television , but was unable to get interested in it . |
| 15 | ‘ He joined the RAF when he was 17 and had been flying 35 years . |
| 16 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 17 | Mr Williams also denied he was part of a gang who had targeted the couple by causing damage to their property and had been chanting ‘ Norman 's going to get 10 years ’ at Mrs Roberts . |
| 18 | Many of the farmers were older ( 45–64 years of age ) and had been farming since school days , with attendance at training courses their only form of further education . |
| 19 | Ramsay knew her by repute only and had been looking forward to seeing her in person . |
| 20 | No doubt everyone in Mouncy Street knew what he had bought and had been looking or waiting for him to find out . |
| 21 | As in the first survey , over 90 per cent of the opioid users attending Wirral 's main two facilities for drug users were daily users of heroin , and had been using heroin for between six months and five years . |
| 22 | He had given up writing poetry and had been living the duplicitous life of a critic deciphering his own works , but when he fell in love with Howard 's wife Elizabeth his former self was reawakened and he ceased to believe in his own existence . |
| 23 | Another , a woman who was living , and had been living for many years in , in continuous adultery ! |
| 24 | She had guessed that the reason was something to do with Jennifer for she had known that her sister had n't been well for some while and had been undergoing tests since experiencing stabbing pain in her right eye and numbness in her legs . |
| 25 | Latterly he had been involved in eel fishing and had been seeking a place to keep his eels alive and fresh . |
| 26 | Once Celie finds out her sister was still alive and had been writing to her for all this time but she had not received any letters because Albert had intercepted the letters , she stopped writing to God . |
| 27 | One student looking for employment had finished his grant entitlement in the first quarter of 1984 , and had been job-seeking for six months ( Table 7.2 ) . |
| 28 | The young Robert Zimmerman had changed his name to Bob Dylan and had been wailing away for a couple of years or so , and Nicholson was among the first of his fans who listened to and studied the words of his anti-establishment anthems , ‘ The Times , They Are A-Changin ’ and his ‘ Mr Tambourine Man ’ which was a taunting , haunting song with a very hard edge that white middle-class youth took to be an ode to a dope dealer , which Dylan denied . |
| 29 | Owners Abroad , which runs Enterprise , Falcon , Martyn and SunMed , insisted that it was not following Thomson , and had been planning its own big reductions . |
| 30 | ‘ And then Crom Croich eats the hearts , ’ said the soldier , and Cathbad , who had been very busy all afternoon supervising the skinning and jointing of an ox and had been planning to serve braised ox heart for tomorrow 's midday meal , turned quite green and tried to remember if they had any salted pig left . |