Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had been [verb] with " in BNC.

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1 Among them was Carmen Azzopardi , who had been racked with guilt after turning down a request from Bernadette to mind Farrah .
2 On the Unionist side men who had been fed with the heady talk of absolute resistance mobilized to resist what they now saw as the sell-out of the Southern Irish Unionists .
3 Margaret , who had been living with her married sister in Oxford , soon came to join her mother .
4 In October , Hopper married Michelle Phillips who had been living with him for some months .
5 In May 1991 , justices made an order committing two children , who had been living with their mother following the separation of their parents , to the care of the local authority .
6 A previously well 15 year old , who had been living with friends , became acutely violent and confused shortly after his return home .
7 Cheeks , a gaudy girl who had been riding with the ‘ pomps for the last few months , was literally crushed flat into the road , dead eyes staring from a foot-wide face .
8 It had been he himself , Lewis , who had finally got on to the man there who was in the process of completing the proofs for the forthcoming seminal opus entitled Pre-Conquest Craftsmanship in Southern Britain , by Theodore S. Kemp , MA , DPhil ; the man who had been closeted with Kemp that fateful morning , and who had confirmed that Kemp had not left the offices until about 12.30 p.m .
9 This serious ‘ faux pas ’ brought the judge 's wrath on Sergeant Golding and the mother who had been charged with her son 's murder was acquitted — the case was never solved .
10 Examples include a member who was in partnership with an individual who had a criminal conviction for fraud ; four members who had been charged with criminal offences ; a bankrupt ; and a member who had been disqualified as a company director .
11 Lieutenant Simon Doggett , who had been charged with keeping Nosey from killing the chickens that pecked in the inn yard , followed Sharpe out to the road .
12 The distinction is not always easy to keep in mind : Lord Denning , Britain 's most experienced judge in defamation cases , published a book in which he criticised a jury in Bristol for acquitting defendants who had been charged with rioting .
13 Japan 's prime minister , whose chief asset is his reputation for honesty , was under pressure to bring into his cabinet politicians who had been tainted with scandal .
14 THE first serious prospect of a cure for Aids , rather than a treatment which delays its effects , has emerged when no trace of the Aids virus was found during the post mortem on a patient who had been treated with the standard AZT drug and a bone marrow transplant .
15 Two patients developed an acute psychosis : the first , who had just finished therapy , required intensive psychiatric care for two weeks ; the second , who had been treated with interferon for three weeks , fell and fractured the acetabulum .
16 The stone free interval was greater , however , in patients whose primary gall stones had been dissolved with chenodeyxholic acid ( median 14 : range 1–80 months ) than in those who had been treated with ursodeoxycholic acid ( median 4 : 1–24 ) .
17 & Bar ( r ) , who had been credited with shooting down 11 German aircraft and sharing in the destruction of two more .
18 At the Liverpool centre , his close acquaintances had included 1 girl who had attended the Canadian CF camp in 1990 and who had been colonised with the epidemic strain on her return .
19 So the young policeman ( who had been eating with the other young men in the passage outside the guestroom ) came in and read the transcript of the court judgement which had condemned the boy from Zliten .
20 SIR , — Dr Jha and colleagues ( May 1 , p 1116 ) report antibodies against human papillomavirus ( HPV ) 16 E7 peptide ( originally reported by Mueller et al ) among women who had been diagnosed with cervical carcinoma on average 4 years before being contacted for donation of a serum sample .
21 In the absence of anyone more nearly related I had been designated next-of-kin , and now I wrote to the Court of Protection who had been dealing with her affairs , asking what my responsibilities would be if she died .
22 Such factual situations had not been considered by Lord Templeman who had been dealing with only one occupant .
23 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 .
24 Mr Gray said he knew of one man who had been threatened with court action for not paying his water rates when he did not receive a reminder .
25 Wales also filed a clean bill of health after their stint at the National Stadium yesterday with Mike Hall and Tony Clement , who had been struggling with groin and ankle injuries respectively , satisfying the medics .
26 Eventually an old gentleman who had been listening with much amusement to their discussion said that what mattered was not whether the earthworm has an immortal soul but whether it has a purpose .
27 Mrs Keith , Senior , who had been staying with Jim and Jean during Tina s confinement , then came back in the trap with Bruce to take up her old room at the Mackenzie 's again , and to help Hilda look after the house and wee Billy .
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 Ronnie Moran , who had been chatting with Mr Souness about the match hours before the Liverpool manager headed for the operating theatre , will have to report failure in his first game in charge .
30 We had a horse who had been broken with the wrong sized bit when his teeth needed attention and under a saddle with a broken tree which rubbed his back .
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