Example sentences of "had not be [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , they generally had not been living in the city ( in this case , in Birmingham ) long enough ( 5 years ) to obtain council housing and , if they had , they were generally offered sub-standard short-life housing in the inner city . |
| 2 | When an Australian newspaper alleged that Kerry Packer had " fixed " the result of a cricket match involving the West Indian team , its captain ( Clive Lloyd ) was entitled to damages even though he was not named in the article and had not been playing in the particular match . |
| 3 | In a series of other cases from eyres where Mettingham had been one of the justices the auditors accepted his ‘ record ’ that he had not been sitting in the court when the case concerned was decided . |
| 4 | The way I put it was intentional and I think if we had n't been sitting in full view of some dozen of the hotel 's guests he would have hit me . |
| 5 | In fact , he had n't been talking in aesthetic terms at all . |
| 6 | They didn they ne had n't been working in a quarry all that long . |
| 7 | It was great and probably would have been with the exception of the video going to number one , it probably would be the highlight of our career cos we 'd been out of had n't been working in Ireland for six years and we were back in and did a sell out concert tour and I think that was really good . |