Example sentences of "i [vb past] been [verb] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By then large drops were falling all around me , another landing on my wig and one splashing on my shoulder , making me jump as if I 'd been prodded with a therm-knife . |
| 2 | ‘ I fancied a change of scene from London where I 'd been working with the Bank of England in-house catering team ’ she said . |
| 3 | With a gloomy wantonness of imagination I had been coquetting with the hideous possibles of disappointment . |
| 4 | This seems strange to me now because I feel sure that if I had been presented with the image of the glass coffin when I was well into the depressive phase of anorexia , I should have recognised it instantly . |
| 5 | Again I thought , well , the world 's there whenever I want it and I had been presented with an incredible opportunity . ’ |
| 6 | I had bought a pair of trousers and a T-shirt when I had been shopping with a friend . |
| 7 | I had been preoccupied with the alchemical vision for some time , but it had become words , ideas , a mere prejudice in favour of the angels , if you like . |
| 8 | ‘ Before the student demonstrations I had been working with a group of Latin American intellectuals in Paris , helping bring out a magazine . |
| 9 | Petra to me had been listed with the Pyramids , Timbuktu , Venice , Hadrian 's Wall and Troy as places that I had to visit before I died . |