Example sentences of "had been [verb] [verb] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His father had been too upset to talk to Darren about it and he had been sent to stay with an aunt that he did not know very well . |
| 2 | Mr Geoff Nichol , Darlington chief executive , had been asked to help with a project looking at community care but would still hold his position with the district , said Mr Smith . |
| 3 | When we consider the regulation that will be imposed and the rights of consumers in Northern Ireland , my hon. Friend will find that consumers will be much better protected and safeguarded under privatisation than if they had been left to continue with a publicly owned monopoly which too often had a life of its own and was not subject to the outside pressures that consumers have a right to bring to bear . |
| 4 | There was a week in 1986 when Fleet Street and Westminster were convulsed with a rumour that Home Sectretary Leon Brittan had been caught interferring with a small boy ; no newspaper dared to print what all " in the know " were discussing until " Private Eye " published the story with the explanation that it was utterly false , and circulated to damage the Home Secretary by an anti-semitic faction in MI5 . |
| 5 | Detective Constable David Hemes told the hearing that Mr Weatherstone had been found hanging with a belt round his neck . |
| 6 | He reflected that in his twenty year association with the Institution the lifeboat fleet had been adapted to cope with an increasing variety of casualties , from being tailored to serve merchant and fishing vessels it was now dealing with more than an equal number of calls from the holiday maker and the pleasure sailor . |