Example sentences of "had [been] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coffin wished he had observed Edward Pitt more closely on that evening , but he had been so taken up with Letty . |
| 2 | He stood with his hands in his pockets and she realised she had been so taken up with her seemingly childish pursuit that she had not even heard the car arrive . |
| 3 | Kate had been so taken up with her own affairs that she 'd rather forgotten Ace 's part in the drama . |
| 4 | The local pottery had been totally flooded out with the stock ruined . |
| 5 | In both Scotland and Lancashire it was barely 3,000 , while the militant Kent coalfield had been totally wiped out with the successive closures of Snowdon , Tilmanston and Betteshanger pits . |
| 6 | The yard at the side had been roughly roofed over with corrugated iron ; it was not entirely waterproof as buckets and other containers were dotted around the floor to catch the drips . |
| 7 | It was almost as if it had been surgically removed along with his appendix when he was a kid . |