Example sentences of "had been [verb] [adv] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aurangzeb had been struck down with a fever , and it was believed that he was beyond recovery . |
| 2 | She had changed into some clothes brought for her by a clerk who had been sent out with a handful of roubles to a nearby shop . |
| 3 | In his opinion there was no doubt that Miss Ward 's head had been cut off with a single blow from a sharp instrument . |
| 4 | Reduced to ten men after captain Eric Caldow had been stretchered off with a broken leg , Scotland had just defeated England , and the flamboyant Baxter , an irrepressible rogue in a dark blue jersey had scored both goals . |
| 5 | The room was already warm and the furniture shone as if all the pieces had been gone over with a damp cloth . |
| 6 | It alleged that he had been fitted out with a secret transmitter on one of his missions to Lebanon , to pinpoint the exact location of the hostages and kidnappers . |
| 7 | Inevitably , men pushed together for long periods of time became edgy and , by the time the prison was freed from the grip of the snow , three men had been knifed ( one of whom had lost a kidney ) and another had been beaten severely with a pool cue . |
| 8 | Earlier , first choice scrum-half Ian MacKay had been ruled out with a broken hand before the finish of the North Harbour game , placing an enormous load on Alberta 's Tom Liddle , a very successful first time tourist . |
| 9 | Moreover the meaning is not at all the same as with to + infinitive , as can be seen from the sample sentences below : ( 39 ) For years she had been driving illegally with a licence obtained in Italy where her brother had sent the examiner a case of wine — not necessary , but she had felt bolstered . |
| 10 | The cropmark was similar to a large square , only some parts of the square were missing , almost if they had been rubbed out with a large eraser . |
| 11 | It looked like it had been taken apart with a bulldozer |
| 12 | Not for the first time this year , Seles had been let off with a mere slap on the wrist . |
| 13 | It had been set up with a directly practical focus : to provide insights and resources which would help teachers in initial training to prepare themselves to use activities involving collaborative work between children . |
| 14 | When she was nineteen she had been going out with a steady boyfriend for three years , and they had decided to get married . |
| 15 | He had been brought up with a lot of fine furniture and had always been conscious of its value . |
| 16 | All this happened in early spring — the third week in March , I think — and for several weeks of the previous summer Inez had been carrying on with a man staying at one of the St Ives hotels . |
| 17 | It seemed eminently believable that you , or possibly your family , had been annoyed , devastated — whatever — on finding out that your grandfather had been playing around with a young Irish girl , and had sent you over to demand an explanation , exact retribution … ’ |