Sentence examples for had been abusing from inspiring English sources

For example, she said, one mother who asked for help had been abusing her child, relatives told her.

But a fellow soldier said he had warned the Army that the recruit had been abusing the drug.

Congress created the taxpayer advocate office in 1998 after hearings into whether the I.R.S. had been abusing taxpayers.

The issue is highly sensitive in China amid a growing perception that civil servants had been abusing their power and escaping appropriate punishment.

In 2001, police raided her home and discovered several stolen prescription pads, an indication that she had been abusing prescription drugs.

Still, Mr. Walcott said that a "screening system was in place" and that there had been no indications that Mr. Brooks had been abusing students.

He had been abused for some time.

He said there was no evidence it had been abused.

But he acknowledged that the current system had been abused.

Nearly all had been abused as children, he pointed out.

The police denied that he had been abused.