Example sentences of "had been [verb] with a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each of the wide windows facing the road had been blocked with a sheet of paper . |
| 2 | Australian DJ Brian White told his listeners that a drunken journalist had approached Kylie after she had been presented with an award and asked her if she felt ashamed to have won it in a room full of so many talented people . |
| 3 | Like the American western railroads , the Russian Trans-Siberian had been built with an eye to migration and settlement . |
| 4 | Mona , the distinguished elderly lady in the tea-gown with lace at the neck , had been listening with a disapproval balanced by her evident affection for both Charity and Peregrine . |
| 5 | And , it 's not a text but perhaps a verse that we could use as a , as a springboard is verse twenty seven , and it says at this point his disciples came and they marvelled that he had been speaking with a woman ! |
| 6 | Of course , compared to what they had been producing with a typewriter and some rub-down lettering , the desktop publishing system was producing wonderful material — it just did n't conform to any of the professional standards . |
| 7 | Phar Lap was now poised to conquer further heights in America , but just over two weeks later he was dead , apparently as a result of having eaten grass or plants which had been sprayed with an insecticide . |
| 8 | And it looked as if she had been stabbed with a weapon that had a central rib ; the wound gaped quite a bit in the middle . |
| 9 | That wound had been inflicted with an instrument with a blade perhaps an inch wide . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | On 25 March 1988 , after North had been charged with a number of criminal acts , Reagan said : |
| 12 | Zak 's long scene began with impressive fireworks as soon as everyone in the dining car had been served with a drink . |
| 13 | A boy was duly found whose mother denied sleeping with any man — the child had been conceived with a spirit . |
| 14 | They swirled together as though they had been stirred with a spoon . |
| 15 | Delaney went in , and pulled up as if he had been hit with a magnum at close range . |
| 16 | Her head felt as if it had been hit with a bag of cement , or replaced with one . |
| 17 | In one hotel they found a man who had been mugged twice , young people who had been threatened with a knife and a newly-wed husband who had had his wedding ring pulled off his fingers by local thieves . |
| 18 | The official newspaper of the Communist Youth League had reportedly been criticized for publishing investigative reports against party orders , and its editors had been threatened with a period in the country . |
| 19 | The courts were re-organized and criminal offences re-classified , reforms which affected large numbers of people , but which had been achieved with a minimum of political controversy . |
| 20 | Young people approaching the age when they would no longer be the formal responsibility of the local authorities became the primary consumers of residential care for several reasons : first , many had been placed with a family and temporary readmission to residential care was needed when such placements broke down ; second , some did not wish to join a new family and preferred group living amongst other young people and appointed caregivers ; and third , some were admitted to a residential setting for help with specific problems or as part of a strategy to prepare them for independent living . |
| 21 | The window behind the altar had been replaced with a piece of board across which someone had scrawled in black paint ‘ This side up ’ . |
| 22 | Whilst he voluntarily gave up his deferment in late 1969 , by December the draft had been replaced with a lottery system and Clinton 's name was not chosen . |
| 23 | They had been covered with a square of spotted muslin , for decency she supposed . |
| 24 | The bed had been covered with a blanket of hand-knitted squares of bright wool . |
| 25 | ‘ A new approach to advertising potential teachers ’ day had been decided with an application form for ‘ Workshop and In-depth Day of Movement ’ for people interested in learning more about Medau and taking our Teacher Training Course . |
| 26 | Suddenly , the boar had been faced with a cliff too steep to climb and had turned on its heel . |
| 27 | Katie , from Hawley , Hants , had been staying with a pal at the time of her murder after a row with her parents two weeks earlier . |
| 28 | Our next-door neighbours , Mr and Mrs Buckley , had a daughter named Sally who had been staying with an aunt for a year or so . |
| 29 | His mother had been singing with a company playing in a northern seaside town and he had lain on his bed in the boarding house , biting his nails , sunk under a terrible inertia . |
| 30 | On that occasion he had been treated with a degree of courtesy not far short of deference and he had subconsciously expected the same of his interview with Chief Inspector Golding . |