Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] been [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Emissary 's Illusochamber had also been free of bugging devices as I 'd found when I 'd been fiddling with my headband , activating a mini-ceptor in one of the jewels . |
| 2 | By then large drops were falling all around me , another landing on my wig and one splashing on my shoulder , making me jump as if I 'd been prodded with a therm-knife . |
| 3 | Like a fool I told her about the man I 'd been living with . |
| 4 | My eyes watered with pain , with chlorine from the swimming pool and with oil from the rag I 'd been blindfolded with . |
| 5 | Anyway , I 'd been staying with them in darkest Kensington , at Mr Gibbon 's very grand , three-storeyed town-house in Ascot Square , just off Addison Road , and working at a branch of Mondo-Food on Victoria Street ( they were trying a new line in Haggisburgers at the time and the manager thought my accent would help shift them . |
| 6 | He is very strict , and would dismiss me if he found out I 'd been interfering with his books . |
| 7 | The vasectomy dated from 1980 , when a girl I 'd been sleeping with told me she was embarazada . |
| 8 | Some of the theories would have made Balzac blush , but they finally decided I 'd been sleeping with Laura , her husband had beaten me up in a dark alley , and now I was on my way to kill him . |
| 9 | And the players I 'd been working with previously went along with me , from using my modified equipment to using my custom-built equipment . |
| 10 | ‘ I fancied a change of scene from London where I 'd been working with the Bank of England in-house catering team ’ she said . |
| 11 | If I had been staying with you I … |
| 12 | With a gloomy wantonness of imagination I had been coquetting with the hideous possibles of disappointment . |
| 13 | I had been struggling with tears for some time and now I let them flow freely . |
| 14 | I had been dealing with trivia but this was different . |
| 15 | He was overlooking the fact that I had been living with Jean-Claude for more than three years . |
| 16 | Again I thought , well , the world 's there whenever I want it and I had been presented with an incredible opportunity . ’ |
| 17 | This seems strange to me now because I feel sure that if I had been presented with the image of the glass coffin when I was well into the depressive phase of anorexia , I should have recognised it instantly . |
| 18 | It had been impossible to think of the future since John 's abduction , but 17 April was only weeks away and I had been discussing with Chris and Nick how we might mark it in some way . |
| 19 | I had been overwhelmed with duties as head of the government , and had made no dispositions for the emergency which occurred . |
| 20 | ‘ I had been rowing with my dad since I was little , so I did n't want to go to his new family with my brother . |
| 21 | I had bought a pair of trousers and a T-shirt when I had been shopping with a friend . |
| 22 | Whoever expected the little grey devils I had been assaulting with white arrows and rolling with white healing balls to reappear in my lung ? |
| 23 | Next I went to the Clerecia , where I had been sitting with Dana watching that wall-clock 's gift pendulum busily wagging away on the wall in front of the great baroque gilt altar . |
| 24 | I had been preoccupied with the alchemical vision for some time , but it had become words , ideas , a mere prejudice in favour of the angels , if you like . |
| 25 | I wanted to join in , but I was only two and a half , and this was the first time I had been left with people I did n't know . |
| 26 | ‘ Before the student demonstrations I had been working with a group of Latin American intellectuals in Paris , helping bring out a magazine . |
| 27 | Just as this world of theirs had been tampered with , so too had the child . |
| 28 | ‘ And do you deny that for the two years prior to his death you 'd been living with him in his flat in London ? ’ |
| 29 | If you 'd been working with this angle instead , we did n't know that and we 're trying to work with this one or we say we 're interested in this angle so that will be the opposite and this would be the adjacent . |
| 30 | If she had the sense she 'd been born with she 'd get up from the table right now , wish him a polite good evening , and scuttle back to the safety of the dressing-room , there to make a pledge never to risk being in his company again . |