Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been [verb] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again I thought , well , the world 's there whenever I want it and I had been presented with an incredible opportunity . ’ |
| 2 | I had bought a pair of trousers and a T-shirt when I had been shopping with a friend . |
| 3 | ‘ Before the student demonstrations I had been working with a group of Latin American intellectuals in Paris , helping bring out a magazine . |
| 4 | And it looked as if she had been stabbed with a weapon that had a central rib ; the wound gaped quite a bit in the middle . |
| 5 | Australian DJ Brian White told his listeners that a drunken journalist had approached Kylie after she had been presented with an award and asked her if she felt ashamed to have won it in a room full of so many talented people . |
| 6 | He studied her a moment , remembering what her cousin , Yin Wu Tsai had said : that she had been born with a woman 's body and yet a man 's soul . |
| 7 | With a start , he saw that the girl in black underwear was slumped , dead , across a couch and that she had been strangled with a scarf , which was still knotted around her neck . |
| 8 | One , Martha Barratt , had been very noisy at times , and he had been told that she had been found with a knife in her bed . |
| 9 | A man serving in the R.A.F. wrote to say that he was deeply indebted to the doctors and nurses who had looked after his wife when she had been admitted with a complicated confinement , which had needed an operation . |
| 10 | She had , but it had happened the previous afternoon , and Jack had gone with her to Rotherhithe Infirmary where she had been admitted with a broken hip . |
| 11 | She had been attacked with a machete . |
| 12 | Yesterday the Merseyside Police Federation Chairman , George Crichton , said that PC Harrison would have been better able to defend herself if she had been armed with an American-style side handled baton . |
| 13 | They swirled together as though they had been stirred with a spoon . |
| 14 | There they lived their lives , and prospered for a while ; but there was a disquiet amongst them , for it was said that they had been created with a purpose in this life , and that the purpose had something to do with the manner of their creation . |
| 15 | They had been charged with a variety of public order offences and been released on police bail to appear before magistrates at a later date . |
| 16 | They had been covered with a square of spotted muslin , for decency she supposed . |
| 17 | Of course , compared to what they had been producing with a typewriter and some rub-down lettering , the desktop publishing system was producing wonderful material — it just did n't conform to any of the professional standards . |
| 18 | A body did n't change if it had been blasted with an automatic weapon in a robbery on Lenox Square or gunned down on a sidewalk in Athens . |
| 19 | It had been refitted with a low-watt bulb practically too dim to see by , in order to save electricity . |
| 20 | Although the Bingham report made serious criticisms of the bank , it had been dealing with a unique situation . |
| 21 | Her head felt as if it had been hit with a bag of cement , or replaced with one . |
| 22 | ‘ It had been left with a blue towel wrapped around its waist and legs but was otherwise uncovered . |
| 23 | In the early third century it had been rebuilt with a new wall inside its robbed-out predecessor . |
| 24 | It had been bought with a United Nations grant of 1980 on the understanding that all the profits would be channelled discreetly into a numbered Swiss bank account to be used exclusively by UNICEF . |
| 25 | It had been pawned with a discreet firm and the person who had pawned it was her brother Giorgio . |
| 26 | She was muddy , her dress torn , her hair looked like it had been combed with a hedge , but she crackled with so much internal power that she was nearly throwing off sparks . |
| 27 | It had been provided with a new backcloth and costumes by Alexis Preller . |
| 28 | He tried to scream the name but his throat felt as if it had been cauterized with a hot iron . |
| 29 | He had been born with a photographic memory and an unlimited store for knowledge , and the capacity to gather and keep information on any subject under the sun . |
| 30 | He had been born with a hare-lip , which had been corrected when he was a baby , but he was nervous . |