Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been [verb] with a " in BNC.

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1 She did n't know that Aisling had been born with a severe ‘ port wine stain ’ .
2 On 25 March 1988 , after North had been charged with a number of criminal acts , Reagan said :
3 It was five races into the championship before it was discovered Jonny had been driving with a broken chassis , which made it impossible to get his car to handle properly .
4 We 'd been certain that Frank had been kept with a Frenchman in the apartment we 'd been in from February to early May .
5 The prospects would have been even brighter if only Russia had been blessed with a less benighted tsar .
6 Other reports said Mr Nagdi had been shot with a Beretta pistol equipped with a silencer .
7 Dalgliesh had been left with an uneasy feeling that neither case was as straightforward as the reports made it appear , but certainly there was no prima facie evidence of foul play in connection with either of the two deaths .
8 Don Roberto had been killed with a similar knife to the one Trent carried .
9 They had heard that Shill had been seen with a local man , Johnny Turner , at the King 's Head Monday lunchtime .
10 It seemed that Francis had been shot with a self-loading pistol .
11 By chance Rose had spoken to the right person as Taylor had been working with a hydrogen diffusion cloud chamber which is potentially well suited for such a task .
12 Vincent Piedboeuf , computer systems project leader for the international organisation , revealed that vital research into the disease had been halted when the computer became overloaded and crashed and said EORTC had been saddled with a gigantic phone bill .
13 Mr Goldring said Miss Lowe had been injected with a very large amount of insulin .
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