Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's his birthday , Monsieur Armand , but I 'm afraid we were spoiling it by having a political discussion . ’ |
| 2 | My mum was really upset because he was accusing her of having an affair with another man . |
| 3 | He was accusing her of having the morals of an alleycat again , and she was tired of it . |
| 4 | 'I persuaded myself that I did n't want to introduce irrelevances into your investigation , when in fact I was protecting myself from having to relive traumas of the past . |
| 5 | When it disappeared from the catalogue and by chance I was offered a knighthood , I always said that the Queen , coming as she does from an angling family , was compensating me for having had my name taken out of Hardy 's catalogue . |
| 6 | A few seconds later I was despising myself for having been in any doubt . |