Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] been drinking " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been drinking scrumpy . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd been drinking . |
| 3 | I put down a bit less than I had been drinking . |
| 4 | ‘ It would have helped ’ , I mumbled under my breath , ‘ if I had been drinking chlorinated water . ’ |
| 5 | I had been drinking before . |
| 6 | I had been drinking in a bar with the sub-editor , who had become a friend . |
| 7 | The villagers would think I had been drinking or wandering in my wits . ’ |
| 8 | It looked like someone had been drinking and eating bread , ’ said Rojas . |
| 9 | Nodding his head , Aplin asked , ‘ Is that why you 'd been drinking , the night before you saw the robbery on Handley Plain ? ’ |
| 10 | They knew she 'd been drinking on the way in . |
| 11 | Anyway , she 'd been drinking too much , of late . |
| 12 | ‘ I ca n't believe she 'd been drinking . |
| 13 | She 'd been drinking with friends . |
| 14 | I 'd just turned on to York Way when I spotted the two city gents who 'd been drinking in the pub . |
| 15 | A BORDON woman drove home from Four Marks after she had been drinking because she was anxious to get home to her child , Alton magistrates were told . |
| 16 | However , her feelings of hopelessness increased over the next 3 weeks and late one night , after she had been drinking alone , she took an overdose of the tranquillizer mixed with paracetamol and then went to bed . |
| 17 | Her mother 's breath had been sour as it always was when she had been drinking . |
| 18 | Katherine put down the empty glass with a start , she had n't realized that she had been drinking . |
| 19 | It looked at first as if she had been drinking blood . |
| 20 | Apart from a glass of lager at dinner she had been drinking only fruit juices , while Rune 's own consumption of lager had been only moderate , not enough to have much effect on a man of such highly tuned physique , she comforted herself . |
| 21 | She had been drinking far too long , too much . |
| 22 | Tenants ' association club on the Sparrow Farm estate … it is alleged that people who had been drinking at the club attacked the family in the off-licence opposite PHOTOGRAPHS : KENNETH SAUNDERS Bitter questions of racial violence Ramesh K and his family were hounded out of their Feltham off-licence by 18 months of abuse and attacks , during which time they became pawns in a battle between the local council , the police and two rival race relations bodies . |
| 23 | On several occasions , people who had been drinking in the Sparrow Farm tenants ' association club opposite the shop left the club and attacked the Ks , both inside the off-licence and , sometimes , as they left after closing for the night . |
| 24 | Another recent item in he BMJ ( vol 284 , p 791 ) , for example , concerned an unhappy lady who had been drinking Dettol for at least 10 years in order to ‘ purify ’ herself . |
| 25 | Being let down by friends or a lack of public transport not only encouraged drink-driving , it also led young people to accept lifts from friends who had been drinking . |
| 26 | A few years ago , I heard of a consultant surgeon who had been drinking on duty for 20 years . |
| 27 | Who had been drinking rum without telling me ? |
| 28 | The highest count in the alcohol group was 14.8% in a chronic alcoholic aged 49 years who had been drinking heavily since the age of 15 years . |
| 29 | A STABLE lad who had been drinking all day took a colleague 's car and smashed it through a wall . |
| 30 | A MOTORCYCLIST who had been drinking and was doing 122mph when stopped by police on the M9 near Linlithgow , was fined £350 and banned from driving for three years at Linlithgow Sheriff Court yesterday . |