Example sentences of "had been [verb] with [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , experience had been gained with applying low cost safety measures in rehabilitation projects in inner city districts , such as General Improvement Areas . |
| 2 | When King Henry had summoned his muster for Scotland , the year after his coronation , Grey had been charged with delivering the summons to his Welsh neighbour , and had withheld it until too late , so that the lord of Glyndyfrdwy was exposed to the charge of being a traitor . |
| 3 | War was too important to be left to those who , by tradition , had been charged with supervising it . |
| 4 | Gooch would have faced a maximum 10-year jail sentence if he had been charged with causing death by dangerous driving — a new offence introduced in April . |
| 5 | Last night police said two men had been charged with causing grievous bodily harm and one had also been charged with possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life . |
| 6 | Three days later ( 6th January ) came a further announcement that four additional young Protestants , David Barr , William Bingham , Charles Martin and Joseph Miller , had been charged with murdering two Roman Catholics and a Protestant married to a Roman Catholic — again in three separate incidents . |
| 7 | The four , including former MP George Anyona , had been charged with holding a seditious meeting with intent to overthrow the government . |
| 8 | As the above data suggest , residential services in Nottinghamshire not only expanded considerably over the period of the study but much of the new development took place in non-traditional residential services of the kind that CMHTs had been charged with promoting . |
| 9 | Morris had been charged with creating a computer programme ( a " virus " ) in 1988 which entered and blocked Internet , a computer network used by over 6,000 computers including those at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) and military establishments . |
| 10 | Round him , she was talkative in order to provoke him into replying , and the attempt made her a habitual confessor , though she would have been amazed if she had been charged with talking about herself all the time . |
| 11 | Johnstone and two other Celtic players , Jimmy Quinn and Pat McCluskey , had been charged with assaulting a Paisley man James Cairney outside ‘ Casanova 's ’ , a Coatbridge nightclub . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Simultaneous Polish reports said that two Polish farmers had been charged with obtaining radioactive caesium from Russian soldiers . |
| 14 | The boy , who 's sixteen , had been charged with raping an eleven year old behind a row of shops at Brockworth in Gloucester . |
| 15 | The boy , who 's sixteen , had been charged with raping an eleven year old behind a row of shops at Brockworth in Gloucester . |
| 16 | The body that had been racked with sobbing was now pressing into him and moving in an altogether different rhythm . |
| 17 | & Bar ( r ) , who had been credited with shooting down 11 German aircraft and sharing in the destruction of two more . |
| 18 | He did not put on his sword , for no weapons were permitted at such occasions , though Ratagan had told him a gory tale of a banquet where a certain disagreement had been settled with eating knives , which the victors had subsequently continued eating with . |
| 19 | Vermuyden had been occupied with rebuilding the Thames flood defences at Dagenham , which , according to an inquiry of 1623 , he left ‘ in a worse condition than it was before ’ . |
| 20 | The risk of leukaemia or non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma was significantly increased in children whose fathers had been thus monitored : four fathers of cases and three fathers of controls had been issued with monitoring devices before their child 's illness was diagnosed ( relative risk 8.0 , p=0.02 ) , and of these , three fathers of cases and two fathers of controls were monitored before their child 's conception ( relative risk 9.0 , p=0.047 ) . |