Example sentences of "[noun sg] had been [vb pp] with [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anyone in the club had been left with any doubt that you and I are in love , that touching little display on the dance floor must have convinced them otherwise . ’ |
| 2 | The Unity Campaign had been identified with both these changes in Party policy , and , moreover , had greatly enlivened the Party 's activity during the year . |
| 3 | But in doing so , he stood the traditional ‘ toxic mix ’ theory on its head by claiming that prison order was rendered unstable by young inmates serving short sentences , even suggesting that at Wymott ‘ a more stable inmate population might have been achieved if the predominantly young and short-term population had been diluted with some older men or those with longer to serve ’ ( para 7.09 ) . |
| 4 | If my godson 's picture had been hinged with this we would have to had to learn to live with the stain . |
| 5 | My whole body had been wracked with this shock . |
| 6 | His interviews the previous night had been done with all his customary thoroughness , but the most productive one had been not the Fernies or young Curtis , those most directly concerned with the incidents which had taken him to Boundary Drive , but with Ted Morgan whom there was really no reason to interview at all . |
| 7 | Chairman John Haynes said the group 's performance had been achieved with little help from either the UK or the US economies ( although the latter was showing a significant increase in retail spending in the fourth quarter ) : turnover was up by less than 2% to £11.1m . |
| 8 | Bending down , he saw that although the space had been cleared with some care , there were traces of charcoal mingled with sand . |
| 9 | Hence , in the union ( an area of approximately 21,000 people ) in which the rice-salt solution had been taught , only 6.5% of all cases of diarrhoea had been treated with this mixture . |
| 10 | In a nearby union in which the lobon-gur solution had been taught , 14.9% of all cases of diarrhoea had been treated with this mixture . |
| 11 | You can imagine my surprise when looking around the Lancaster hangar at the display boards , I came across a copy of Flt Lt Bulcraig 's DFM citation , with a typed caption stating that our pilot had been killed with all his crew ! |
| 12 | A further solicitor 's letter informed Brenda that the Sharmas believed Robbie to be their dog ( they claimed his fur had been dyed ! ) , and that their bitch had been exchanged with another before the inspection . |
| 13 | Captain Glen had recently reported that the university had been retaken with little opposition , and Mortimer had immediately set off . |
| 14 | By June 1991 agreements to permit visa-free travel had been concluded with all western European countries except Portugal , Turkey and Cyprus . |
| 15 | Perhaps no pictorial revolution of the magnitude and depth of Cubism had been effected with such extreme rapidity , and during the years between 1907 and 1910 every few months had witnessed some radical change in the appearance of Cubist painting . |
| 16 | A single justice had been faced with this very unusual and unpleasant allegation . |