Example sentences of "it have been [verb] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What may appear to be an ordinary action , such as picking up a slipper to put it on , can trigger an unusual response from the dog if it has been hit with a shoe in a previous home . |
| 2 | Nick is the man with the baseball glove who can stand at the end of the practice range and catch his master 's ball no matter whether it has been struck with a sand-iron or a driver . |
| 3 | A rod that is propped at 45° to the water , quivering slightly as the current pushes against the line , will suddenly slam over as though it has been struck with a sandbag . |
| 4 | But the case for amiodarone is not proved , and it has been associated with a higher incidence of sudden death . |
| 5 | Though the vessel does not have an engine or a conventional rudder , it has been equipped with a thruster unit to give some manoeuvrability in the rare event of it going adrift from its location about two miles from the Alba platform . |
| 6 | It had been refitted with a low-watt bulb practically too dim to see by , in order to save electricity . |
| 7 | Although the Bingham report made serious criticisms of the bank , it had been dealing with a unique situation . |
| 8 | Her head felt as if it had been hit with a bag of cement , or replaced with one . |
| 9 | ‘ It had been left with a blue towel wrapped around its waist and legs but was otherwise uncovered . |
| 10 | In the early third century it had been rebuilt with a new wall inside its robbed-out predecessor . |
| 11 | It had been bought with a United Nations grant of 1980 on the understanding that all the profits would be channelled discreetly into a numbered Swiss bank account to be used exclusively by UNICEF . |
| 12 | It had been pawned with a discreet firm and the person who had pawned it was her brother Giorgio . |
| 13 | She was muddy , her dress torn , her hair looked like it had been combed with a hedge , but she crackled with so much internal power that she was nearly throwing off sparks . |
| 14 | It had been provided with a new backcloth and costumes by Alexis Preller . |
| 15 | He tried to scream the name but his throat felt as if it had been cauterized with a hot iron . |
| 16 | It 's been toyed with a few times but as far I 'm aware , this is probably the first serious attempt — certainly at the sort of scale we 're talking of — to use a perched beach to provide coastal protection . |
| 17 | It 's been started with a local council grant , and caters for some of an estimated one thousand people who would otherwise have to eat from rubbish bins … or simply go hungry . |
| 18 | Is is possible to find its original military number plate as it 's been reregistered with a civilian number ? |