Example sentences of "been [adv] [verb] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a soft shade of bisque , this classic collection of painted furniture has been skilfully finished with a fashionable and authentic aged look . |
| 2 | This approach has been successfully used with a number of well known models of the UK economy , including the models of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research , the London Business School and HM Treasury . |
| 3 | He showed me the page of the book — the passage had been furiously scored with a pen nib . |
| 4 | He had been much taken with a small low-growing Kalmia at Whitton — from Pennsylvania so the Duke of Argyll had told him — but did not specifically request it . |
| 5 | Each of the 37 bedrooms have been individually decorated with a mixture of antiques and opulent fabrics . |
| 6 | The new Coalport range has been further enhanced with a wide selection of new collector 's plates , giftware , cottages and florals . |
| 7 | This has been partly connected with a deep-seated hostility to cities and to urban living in general . |
| 8 | The girl has been temporarily placed with a foster family until she can be reunited with her mother . |
| 9 | Yep , I 'd finished the lodging houses , they were rough , my word they were rough , they used to get drunk and fighting , and of course they used to be amusing really they used to get fighting at a lodging house quite close to the dock and after when the windows was smashed , we would find that they 'd been temporarily repaired with a coal sack taken from the coal yard next door , and all that sort of business , and anyhow , nothing particular out of the way happened until three years later of course when we got the general strike , and the strikers used to meet outside the labour institution headquarters in Street . |
| 10 | Individual ants have been repeatedly followed with a trolley carrying a mirror that displaces the image of the sun as seen by the ant . |
| 11 | The substance of her treatise on the Black Death had been carefully checked with a microbiologist and a specialist in tropical medicine . |
| 12 | Onto one line I tie a size 2 , straight-eyed , forged hook , which has been carefully honed with a fine carborundum stone to razor sharpness , and the barb reduced to a bare minimum so as not to impeded penetration but still retain a degree of holding power . |
| 13 | ‘ Two days before the accident happened she had been out shopping with a member of staff and had returned unescorted . |
| 14 | In this second edition the standard work has been fully revised with a number of new photographs and rewritten text to reflect developments and progress in infectious diseases . |
| 15 | In this second edition the standard work has been fully revised with a number of new photographs and rewritten text to reflect developments and progress in infectious diseases . |
| 16 | ‘ Wait , ’ Josie said to Lucy , who 'd been about to leave with an armload of silver lame for dressing room three , and Lucy waited . |
| 17 | now a variant of strain 84 has been genetically engineered with a deficient plasmid-transfer system . |
| 18 | She also read the message in italics printed beneath the cartoon , to the effect that the cartoonist responsible had for many years been officially connected with a provincial newspaper and was now , in the sunset of his life , himself the recipient of twice-weekly Meals on Wheels . |
| 19 | Don Hutchison , Joe Allon and Rob McKinnon have all departed for £525,000 , and all been adequately replaced with a tidy profit to offset long-term debts . |
| 20 | The severe drop down to the lower parts of the garden means it is sensible to provide a physical barrier and this has been cleverly achieved with a seat and barbecue that matches the sweep of the terrace itself . |
| 21 | The only occasion upon which they appear to have been considered by this court was in Reg. v. McNiff [ 1986 ] Crim.L.R. 57 , in respect of which we have been helpfully provided with a transcript of the judgment . |
| 22 | It was only as his eyes closed and he drifted into sleep that Corbett realised the wine must have been lightly laced with a sleeping potion . |
| 23 | An important aspect of transmammary infection is that disease may occur in suckled pups reared in a clean environment and nursed by a bitch which may have been recently treated with an anthelmintic and has a negative faecal egg count . |