Example sentences of "been [verb] with an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those days , too , she had been afraid of Gareth Davis , but her fear had been tinged with an awareness of his overt masculinity . |
| 2 | Australian DJ Brian White told his listeners that a drunken journalist had approached Kylie after she had been presented with an award and asked her if she felt ashamed to have won it in a room full of so many talented people . |
| 3 | And in recognition of the achievement , Rose Brownlie , Senior Accounts Manager , Personal Banking at Great Tower Street has been presented with an award . |
| 4 | British Telecom has been presented with an award for its first environmental performance report . |
| 5 | The seduction scene afterwards must have been done with an eye for the main chance , before the opportunity disappeared … |
| 6 | Like the American western railroads , the Russian Trans-Siberian had been built with an eye to migration and settlement . |
| 7 | ‘ A new approach to advertising potential teachers ’ day had been decided with an application form for ‘ Workshop and In-depth Day of Movement ’ for people interested in learning more about Medau and taking our Teacher Training Course . |
| 8 | Subsequently , Hearn has been threatened with an injunction , while a letter from the WPBSA 's solicitors awaits Doyle on his return from holiday . |
| 9 | I assume that people are put on the list if they have been connected with an offence relating to prostitution or have been cautioned . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | You 're right , Dorigo is definitely one of our most consistent defenders , and it 's not as though we 've been blessed with an abundance of them in recent years ! |
| 12 | She thanks Jenny and her previous Medau teachers for their leadership and is grateful that she has been blessed with an ability to keep up her sport . |
| 13 | But this thing we 've been doing with an acid and an alkali , most of the bases will do it as well , |
| 14 | They were as follows : ( 1 ) there is a dispute or a difference between the parties which has been formulated in some way or other ( see 15.5 ) ; ( 2 ) the dispute or difference has been remitted by the parties to the person to resolve in such a manner that he is called on to exercise a judicial function ( see 15.6 ) ; ( 3 ) where appropriate , the parties must have been provided with an opportunity to present evidence and/or submissions in support of their respective claims in the dispute ( see 15.7 ) ; and ( 4 ) the parties have agreed to accept his decision ( see 15.8 ) . |
| 15 | So , at one and the same time , we have been provided with a new characterisation of the British party system that challenges the cogency of the responsible party government model , and we have also been provided with an explanation for economic policy-making and for the decline of Britain 's economy . |
| 16 | Sunderland have also been linked with an approach for Sheffield United boss Dave Bassett . |
| 17 | A von Restorff effect ( Wallace , 1965 ) refers to the common finding that a single distinctive item will tend to be remembered better than surrounding ones , a phenomenon which has often been linked with an impairment in memory for immediately preceding and following items in a list ( Brenner , 1973 ; Detterman , 1975 , 1976 ; Erdelyi & Blumenthal , 1973 ) . |
| 18 | That wound had been inflicted with an instrument with a blade perhaps an inch wide . |
| 19 | We have been dealing with an agent so I do n't know how he really feels . |
| 20 | Phar Lap was now poised to conquer further heights in America , but just over two weeks later he was dead , apparently as a result of having eaten grass or plants which had been sprayed with an insecticide . |
| 21 | Convicted prisoners are outnumbered by the euphemistically named ‘ undertrials ’ — remanded prisoners for most of whom trial is months ( if not years ) away and many of whom , detained pending police investigations , have not yet been charged with an offence ( Diaz 1977 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ ( 1 ) Whether or not the Director of the Serious Fraud Office , in employing her powers under section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 in relation to a person under investigation who has been charged with an offence , is obliged by any principle of law , before asking any question or seeking any information in relation to that offence , to inform that person that he is not obliged to answer such questions , or provide such information , and , if so , by what principle of law . |
| 23 | ( 2 ) Whether or not the power of the Director of the Serious Fraud Office under section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 to require by notice in writing a person under investigation to answer questions or otherwise furnish information continues after that person has been charged with an offence . |
| 24 | The immunities which he does say the Director is wrongfully seeking to infringe are the second and third in the list , which protect the citizen from being compelled to answer questions on pain of punishment ; and these are not concerned specifically with the question whether the citizen has or has not been charged with an offence . |
| 25 | Roger Jones has now been charged with an offence under the Firearms Act and with making threats to kill . |
| 26 | Mr Mackie has been charged with an offence under the 1985 Company Securities ( Insider Dealing ) Act . |
| 27 | A 16 year old youth and a 33 year old man have been charged with an assault on police . |
| 28 | The nuns have acted to prevent the slaughter of the flock because they believed that their eggs have never been associated with an outbreak of food poisoning , she added . |
| 29 | The nuns claim that their eggs have never been associated with an outbreak of food poisoning , and although salmonella is present in the environment it is not necessarily in the eggs . |
| 30 | The relatively recent introduction of regulatory prohibitions has been associated with an extension of the law 's conception of criminality to embrace a notion of social harm in addition to one of individual guilt , characteristic of traditional crime ( cf. |