Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] been [verb] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The look on your face was like a naughty schoolgirl who 'd just been caught with a stolen pie . |
| 2 | Although he 'd never been blessed with a particularly vivid imagination , Charlie saw it all in an instant . |
| 3 | There was nothing wrong with the boat 's lines , which were sleekly functional , but her long powerful hull , her upperworks , and even the interior of her capacious working deck had all been painted with a wartime dazzle paint . |
| 4 | It turned out that she lived in some place called Romford and as she was due to take me back there the day after the funeral I had only been left with a few hours to make a decision . |
| 5 | But Lord Robertson disallowed his evidence , firstly because of the confidentiality of the client-solicitor relationship ( though Mr Beltrami had already been issued with a waiver for this from the Scottish Law Society ) , secondly because evidence against McGuinness could not be competent as evidence against Waddell . |
| 6 | Today by some bonus of chance they were being left there to enjoy it and had not been interrupted with a call for tea or to go for a swim with Dad who had just come home . |
| 7 | He could imagine that the walls had once been lined with an array of expensive paintings or tapestries and the wooden floorboards covered with elegant , sculpted carpeting . |
| 8 | Mr Macdonald had also been charged with a drink driving offence the previous evening . |
| 9 | A 5th sheep belonging to a farmer in another field had also been attacked with a knife and beaten to death . |
| 10 | Langhorne was an impossible , fiercely dangerous dirt track , practically round , full of ruts ; hot and unprotected , but Mario — as he often liked to point out — had n't been born with a silver spoon in his mouth ; he could n't afford the fare to Europe ; meanwhile , while dreaming of his grand prix heroes , he 'd just have to be better than anybody else at what was available . |
| 11 | Judge then my feelings when the first face I was to see at Jo'burg airport was the self-same Second Secretary , delighted that he had again been honoured with an important secret mission . |
| 12 | The acetylcholine sweat spot test was carried out injecting 0.1 ml of a 1% solution of acetylcholine ( Miochol — CooperVision Ltd , Southampton , UK ) intradermally using a 25 gauge needle in a marked area of the dorsum of the foot which had previously been painted with a 2% alcholic iodine solution and a suspension of maize starch in arachis oil ( 100 g in 100 ml ) . |
| 13 | Virions were pelleted by centrifugation at 40,000 rpm for 1 hr , resuspended in 100µl 2% phosphotungstic acid and dropped onto Formvar-coated grids which had previously been coated with a thin layer of carbon . |
| 14 | It was alleged that one of their foster children had recently been threatened with a knife . |
| 15 | But peering more closely he could see that someone had recently been writing with a fountain pen . |
| 16 | He knew that his brother-in-law had never been associated with a controversial or political activity at any time and that , if the files were genuine , his one would contain exactly nothing . |