Example sentences of "they had been [vb pp] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They swirled together as though they had been stirred with a spoon . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This magic had been happening while they had been closeted with the policeman discussing the prosaic and sordid details of the burglary . |
| 5 | They had been covered with a square of spotted muslin , for decency she supposed . |
| 6 | Now that they had been presented with the information which they had requested all along , they had to prove that faecal contamination of the egg shell did not constitute any great risk to public health , Mother Catherine said . |
| 7 | All that was in essence known to HQ 5 Corps was that the greater number of these people were " Cossacks " or " Russians " making up various units who had found themselves in Austria because to a greater or lesser extent they had been associated with the Germans , and had surrendered to the British in the hope that they might thus avoid falling into the hands of the Communists . |
| 8 | Net fluid transport was measured in 26 rats on days 6–9 after they had been infected with the parasites . |