Example sentences of "had been [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , all attacks by the German centre , west of Verdun and at Nancy , had been halted with heavy loss . |
| 2 | We watched the emergence of one moth ; it crept out from its pale yellow papery cocoon , and clung to the stem of grass to which the cocoon had been fixed with silken threads . |
| 3 | The Foreign Office said a list of 45 Britons who had visited the ranch recently and may still be there had been compiled with the help of U.S. immigration authorities and worried relatives . |
| 4 | Captain Glen had recently reported that the university had been retaken with little opposition , and Mortimer had immediately set off . |
| 5 | A liaison had been struck with Spanish designer Juan de la Cierva for G & J Weir to licence build his autogiros . |
| 6 | Could I let them have the exact name of the coffin-manufacturers who had supplied me , as they had been inundated with calls asking for it and , having no success with the number supplied by Directory Enquiries , were needing further information . |
| 7 | He was not lying when , in Wednesday 's rather pitiful TV interviews aimed at persuading his party not to dump him , he said he had been inundated with letters of support from the world of music , opera , theatre , films and sport . |
| 8 | All said they had been inundated with telephone calls from eager fans . |
| 9 | Bending down , he saw that although the space had been cleared with some care , there were traces of charcoal mingled with sand . |
| 10 | Each of the wide windows facing the road had been blocked with a sheet of paper . |
| 11 | Because every entrance had been blocked with trees . |
| 12 | In this case we were lucky and the route had been re-equipped with new bolts placed in between the old bolts . |
| 13 | Their roots lay deep in the shell-holes and in the earthen barricades which had been erected with such sectarian conviction more than a decade before . |
| 14 | Mr Suzuki 's flourishes merely echoed and embellished words that had been uttered with signal prescience almost exactly eighty years before , by John Hay . |
| 15 | Or perhaps her whole being had been flooded with the personality of the real , dead Walter , as she tried to reproduce his style , the dash of his personality , his iconoclastic irreverence . |
| 16 | The man , who police believe is instrumental in many UFF attacks , said the organisation had been flooded with young people wanting to join since the UDA was banned last August and said that only one major UFF terrorist unit had been lost in security force operations in the last two years . |
| 17 | They were not feeling too bad , considering , although Karen , as soon as she had awoken , had been flooded with guilty thoughts — the pangs unmodified , this morning , by champagne or brandy . |
| 18 | Now that they had been presented with the information which they had requested all along , they had to prove that faecal contamination of the egg shell did not constitute any great risk to public health , Mother Catherine said . |
| 19 | Again I thought , well , the world 's there whenever I want it and I had been presented with an incredible opportunity . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And already in similiar circumstances in France last summer he had been presented with the kind of opportunity to prove himself that many young pianists must dream of in vain : he was called on , again at very short notice , to stand in for the even more illustrious Sviatoslav Richter at Richter 's own festival at the Grange Meslay near Tours . |
| 22 | This seems strange to me now because I feel sure that if I had been presented with the image of the glass coffin when I was well into the depressive phase of anorexia , I should have recognised it instantly . |
| 23 | Writing to a colleague at Caserta , he mentioned that he had been presented with some tricky problems concerning the status of individual British subjects in Austria , and he then went on to mention , among " similar problems " he had been confronted with : " if captured Cossacks fighting with the Germans are to be handed over to the Russians , what should be done with White Russians with French nationality ? |
| 24 | Mike Shaw ( left ) and Barbara Finnan after they had been presented with their cheques by Brian Roberts ( centre ) . |
| 25 | Thousands of people had been presented with an alternative and had decided according to an inner inspiration . |
| 26 | On the day Lucy had been presented with the key of the Toyota , Margaret Telford had said , ‘ Now promise me you 'll never pick up hitch-hikers or strangers . |
| 27 | The two countries ' Foreign Ministers had been presented with the proposals by Pérez de Cuéllar at the ninth Non-aligned Movement ( NAM ) summit earlier in the month [ see p. 36907 ] . |
| 28 | Eventually Mr Holdsworth was summoned to attend a Council committee at which he was presented with a list of 26 disciplinary offences , none of which had been raised with him before his suspension . |
| 29 | In their minds it had been prefaced with romantic dialogue and protestations of love . |
| 30 | Like the American western railroads , the Russian Trans-Siberian had been built with an eye to migration and settlement . |