Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] [verb] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vasectomy dated from 1980 , when a girl I 'd been sleeping with told me she was embarazada . |
| 2 | Whoever expected the little grey devils I had been assaulting with white arrows and rolling with white healing balls to reappear in my lung ? |
| 3 | I 've been primed with stolen cash from a post-office raid set up to finance your old man 's own version of early day closing at the nick . |
| 4 | " I have been connected with different unions for this last twenty years " , he declared to the Royal Commission on Labour in 1892 , " but I am sorry to state that they have been formed for the benefit of one man , for he has generally cleared out with the funds " . |
| 5 | As to the other case that I want to say a word about , I have to confess now to beating a drum that I have been beating with varying success for a number of years . |
| 6 | For NDT Systems , the UTEA-1 represents the first in-house designed and manufactured ultrasonic products , which has been met with great enthusiasm . |
| 7 | It is this project which has been pursued with great tenacity by Nicos Poulantzas , who has applied Althusser 's general theory to a specific case . |
| 8 | The Test match at Old Trafford , which had been packed with stirring deeds , was plunged on the fourth evening into hideous disarray . |
| 9 | It seems that he died after drinking brandy which had been laced with strychnine and we have to try to discover how the poison got into the brandy . ’ |
| 10 | By placing a tethered owl under a tree , the branches of which had been covered with sticky lime , it was possible to trap small birds as they gathered to mob the bird of prey . |
| 11 | The floor was made of wood which had been brushed with gold leaf so that every knot and line of the grain created a ripple in a seeming golden pool . |
| 12 | It had a wooden floor which had been brushed with gold leaf so that every knot and line of the grain created a ripple in a seeming golden pool . |
| 13 | Having approved the new constitution , which had been drawn up by a nine-member Constitutional Recommendation Committee , the King turned the document over to the Council of Ministers , which had been invested with legislative powers in mid-May [ see p. 37453 ] . |
| 14 | The Irish Republican Socialist party ( I RSP ) , which had been associated with Official Sinn Fein ( Republican Clubs ) , at one time considered the possibility of participating but decided against this shortly after the election was announced . |
| 15 | Our final text elaborates this to ‘ the nauseating smell of fresh paint which had been mixed with rancid oil ’ . |
| 16 | Alexei was under a tree with Kadan and his father , and on a carpet which had been spread with great care on a level piece of grass sat Jehana , ignoring everyone . |
| 17 | The purpose of such plans is to coordinate the contributions of different agencies towards agreed transition goals which have been planned with young people and their families . |
| 18 | It is not hard to imagine what could happen to collections like those at the Tretyakov Gallery or the Pushkin Museum of Fine Art , which have been faced with unbelievable problems reconstructing their buildings . |
| 19 | Physiological measures which have been equated with subjective risk when driving are galvanic skin response ( GSR ) ( e.g. Helander & Söderberg , 1973 — described in Summala , 1976 ; Hulbert , 1957 ; Preston , 1969 ; Taylor , 1964 ) and heart rate ( Rutley & Mace , 1972 ) , both of which are often used as measures of physiological arousal . |
| 20 | It is particularly disturbed by the imminent introduction of fish which have been fed with mammalian growth hormones . |
| 21 | I was lucky enough to receive an invitation for the special AGM held at the Guildhall London , attended by Lady Baden-Powell and other Guiding dignitaries including a lady who has been connected with Guiding for all its 75 years . |
| 22 | A local man who has been charged with grievous bodily harm will face further questioning today before he appears before magistrates . |
| 23 | MICHAEL LYNAGH , who has been playing with increasing success for Italian club Treviso under the hand of magician Pierre Villepreux , has been offered a job with the PR department of Benetton , the club sponsors . |
| 24 | The Committee itself concluded ‘ that the overall technical standard of the operation has been high , both in the sense that the signal itself has been generated with great skill and proficiency and that the practical and logistical problems associated with presence of televising personnel and equipment have been kept to a minimum ’ . |
| 25 | A mere two days before she had been deliberating with other world leaders at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe . |
| 26 | She slipped off the edge of the bed as if she had been injected with new life . |
| 27 | She had been tortured with electric shocks — as had every teenager I met who had been detained during the township unrest . |
| 28 | During the last minutes she had been talking with extreme rapidity in a light high voice . |
| 29 | She had just begun to settle into her neat flat , and although it was n't furnished expensively the few pieces she had were chosen with loving care . |
| 30 | Examples include a member who was in partnership with an individual who had a criminal conviction for fraud ; four members who had been charged with criminal offences ; a bankrupt ; and a member who had been disqualified as a company director . |