Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv prt] with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's just been filled up with petrol so you 've no worry there . ’ |
| 2 | His eyes were red-rimmed and sagging , his nose a mass of pustules , and his teeth had been blacked out with enamel . |
| 3 | This last observation may mean that additions , repairs and restorations could be recognised even if they had been carried out with lacquer from the lacquer tree instead of imitations of it . |
| 4 | A great deal of research has been carried out with respect to the effects of ageing on physical and mental capacities . |
| 5 | He accepted there was no question that the PACE interviews Irving had witnessed would have been carried out with exactitude , but was certain that the negotiation of justice could easily continue outside of the world of the written custody record or file of evidence . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , in such experiences " the aesthetic audience " has been reborn along with tragedy itself . |
| 7 | I 've been looking for him all afternoon , but he must have been tied up with work . |
| 8 | He was shocked to find the puppy 's legs had been tied up with string before it was placed in a bag and dumped . |
| 9 | You 're quite right that it 's been dealt with in an extraordinary number of soaps because , in Brookside , Tracey Corkhill has had an abortion and the story 's been tied in with fatherhood — with Barry , her lover , losing out on fatherhood . |
| 10 | Right , so it will be sel self defeating , job creation in the urban areas will be self defeating and most of the , the reason why that was particularly important because historically most of the job creation schemes that governments have put in place with or without aid in developing countries is in the urban areas , you know , it 's the erm subsidized industrial plants , subsidized erm manu manufacturing industry , right so that the import substitution industries er have been set up with government and or aid money , foreign aid money and what Harrison Todaro was saying you 're wasting your time putting money into these big projects , right , because that only in that only in erm exaggerates th the migration problem because it really will increase people 's perception of er job possibilities in the urban area , they think there are jobs being created by government there , that will happen as another , as another stimulus er let me just draw a little diagram what Harrison Todaro was saying right we 've got time here such to say horizontal axis marks the lifespan of some representative migrant , then you 've got wages , wages in the agricultural area and wages in the urban area like let's just say that this is the wage rate in agriculture , right . |
| 11 | They might also reveal that you have been in some distant shopping mall far from your usual stomping ground on a day on which you had sworn ( at least to the office ) that you had been laid up with flu . |
| 12 | They had been trussed up with cord and partly wrapped in polythene bags and blankets . |
| 13 | Have you been struck down with flu this year ? |
| 14 | Perhaps the edges have indeed been knocked off with time and retelling , but the essential humour remains . |
| 15 | Thatcher ) led the charge on enlargement and that that particular banner has been taken up with enthusiasm by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and my right hon. Friend the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary . |
| 16 | The rest of the week has been taken up with dance rehearsals which , thanks to my futile flailings , are usually hysterical . |
| 17 | Gay energy has been taken up with service provision and public education : little has been left for meaningful activism , and our anger , fear and grief has been kept strictly privatised , so as not to exacerbate the hostility we face in the outside world , and so as not to risk funding . |
| 18 | His time since then has been taken up with self-examination — ‘ finding my real identity , trying to reorganise my own language combining western techniques with the voices from my earliest experience . ’ |
| 19 | Churchill 's proposal made at The Hague for a European Assembly had been taken up with vigour by the newly formed European Movement . |
| 20 | One side of the van 's interior had been kitted out with shelving . |
| 21 | This has now been achieved and a joint statement , highlighting mutual recognition based on each body 's HND as the benchmark , has been published along with guidance notes for centres . |