Example sentences of "[noun] had been [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | An altar to the side had been decorated with flowers and large candles now lit up John 's photograph . |
| 2 | Last night Hampshire police confirmed that two fans had been charged with public order offences . |
| 3 | Adams had been charged with indecently assaulting three children . |
| 4 | Galliher , the defendant had been served with the writ in England . |
| 5 | Laughton had been linked with Davies , Well aware of Widnes ' financial problems and the crippling costs of maintaining Davies ' who recently signed a three-year £80,000-per-season contract with cash-strapped Widnes . |
| 6 | If the Diamond Phoenix had been supplied with proper drivers it most probably would have done a little better , overtaking the Western Systems . |
| 7 | If anyone in the club had been left with any doubt that you and I are in love , that touching little display on the dance floor must have convinced them otherwise . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We think one soldier had been playing with the weapon when it went off . |
| 9 | Zak 's long scene began with impressive fireworks as soon as everyone in the dining car had been served with a drink . |
| 10 | The fact that the car had been sold with a manufacturer 's warranty was irrelevant . |
| 11 | Before Nathan entered , her mind had been filled with the prospect of playing Lady Macbeth at last , and to all appearance she might still have been thinking of nothing but that . |
| 12 | Her mind had been occupied with things like the freezing point of soda water or the melting point of cheese ; later on it became the non-revolutionary redistribution of the means of production and the alternate vote . |
| 13 | In those days , too , she had been afraid of Gareth Davis , but her fear had been tinged with an awareness of his overt masculinity . |
| 14 | Above , I saw where a hole in the tin roof had been repaired with a flattened-out biscuit tin that had once contained Huntley and Palmer 's ginger nuts . |
| 15 | The United Somali Congress ( USC ) , which drew its support from the Hawiye clan of central Somalia , launched an offensive in late December , while the largest rebel group , the northern-based Somali National Movement ( SNM ) , dismissed as " futile " a government announcement on Dec. 26 that political parties had been legalized with immediate effect . |
| 16 | A stranger had been chatting with Mrs O for some time . |
| 17 | Clothes , bottles , books and baby wipes had been left with him . |
| 18 | Only the Jews were descended from Adam and only the Jews had been contaminated with original sin as a consequence of Eve 's disobedience . |
| 19 | When I opened the frame I found , as I expected , that the drawing had been hinged with masking tape . |
| 20 | On the day Lucy had been presented with the key of the Toyota , Margaret Telford had said , ‘ Now promise me you 'll never pick up hitch-hikers or strangers . |
| 21 | Tonight the Ministry of Defence confirmed Anne Scott had been charged with criminal damage . |
| 22 | The offside front wheel had been clamped with a locking shackle . |
| 23 | ( Ver had been charged with the murder in 1984 but acquitted , a verdict which was overturned in 1986 after Corazon Aquino had come to power — see pp. 34297-98 ; 34489 ; 34872 . ) |
| 24 | The looms had been replaced with lathes , which responded to urgent and sometimes panic requests to anything from shell casings to aircraft , gun or radio parts . |
| 25 | When her body was discovered on waste ground in Hertfordshire her neck had been crushed with great force . |
| 26 | The words had been spoken with the finality of a full stop . |
| 27 | At the beginning of the century , the Royal Institution had been founded with two aims which turned out to be incompatible : to bring science both to mechanics and to the landed gentry . |
| 28 | After £2,067 had been handed over to the District , branches had been left with a net income of £1,492 , just one pound less than the £1,493 spent on publicity , room rents and other local organisation and administration . |
| 29 | In March 1898 Leslie Johnson , the general treasurer , reported to an emergency meeting of the Executive Committee that the union was roughly £pound1,600 in debt and that the Glasgow , Dublin , Cork , Swansea , Aberdeen and Ardrossan branches had been closed with wages owing to twelve or more branch officials . |
| 30 | This was particularly so where , as here , the applicant had been charged with serious disciplinary offences which would result in a loss of liberty . |