Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv prt] with [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you could see it like , er but it could easily have been filled in with some wood and nobody would know it was there , yeah |
| 2 | ‘ I saw that sort you 've been knocking about with last night . |
| 3 | And I saw that the shed window had been boarded over with some plywood , and the board had a number beneath which was the signature ‘ Popova ’ . |
| 4 | This is why we appear to be witnessing a new round of military coup attempts in those happy places where western prescriptions have been carried out with such fidelity : for example , Fujimoro in Peru last week , and the events in Venezuela in February . |
| 5 | and a large reform had been carried out with little trouble . |
| 6 | We readily agreed that the conversion had been carried out with more imagination than we would have been able to bring to it , but could we afford it ? |
| 7 | When a research project is written up it will probably not be any grandiose offering ( indeed it will probably be all the better for not being grandiose ) , but if the research has been carried out with scrupulous attention to detail and accuracy and the statement of results does not go beyond the limits justified by the data then a useful craftsmanlike job of work will have been accomplished . |
| 8 | The negotiations have been carried out with utmost discretion , and involved on the Basque side just two members of the ruling Basque Nationalist Party ( apart from José Ardanza , the Basque government 's president ) and José Alberto Pradena , the governor of the Basque province of Guipuzcoa , the capital of which is Bilbao . |
| 9 | By midday the Common had been turned over with meticulous care , the pools dragged and the frogmen sent down . |
| 10 | When he had broached the subject — tentatively — he had been turned down with surprising sharpness . |
| 11 | The spot has been cordoned off with orange tape . |
| 12 | Just to know that there are rapists around who could have been tracked down with this method is justification for a database . |
| 13 | Just to know that there are rapists around who could have been tracked down with this method is justification for a database . |
| 14 | Worse still , the dish has probably been cleaned out with some form of modern detergent . |
| 15 | Measure 6 level tbsp of the syrup into a small bowl that has been rinsed out with hot water . |
| 16 | With the benefit of fifteen years ’ experience and from the security of a university in Britain , it is possible to pronounce with considerable confidence upon what should have happened ; to comment owlishly on how untidy and illogical were the processes employed , how more information should have been spelt out with more precision , how more evaluation should have been undertaken sooner , how unreal were our expectations in terms of how quickly and how evenly changes can effectively take place . |
| 17 | Six months before her overdose Liz terminated the relationship with her boyfriend of two years ' standing after she discovered he had been going out with another girl . |
| 18 | so there was silence until we got to the tube station and he said , how long have you been going out with this man ? |
| 19 | The menu reads more conventionally , but the food has been thought through with unusual care : witness the unexpected sweetness in the crab and sesame tart ; the vinegary bite to a plate of matted e-fu noodles ; and , of course , that small plate of perfection , within the narrowly-defined limits of its raw material , the chicken 's foot . |
| 20 | At first the new mountains must have been worn down with great rapidity to produce the vast quantities of Neogene conglomerates . |
| 21 | This new board has been set up with equal representation from CGLI and BTEC to validate and examine courses for the Certificate of Pre-vocational Education ( CPVE ) . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been hosed down with cold water while standing naked in the snow , ’ said one man . |
| 23 | In the words of the Kingman Report , ‘ their implications have not been followed through with sufficient rigour or in detail . ’ |
| 24 | A form of attitudinism which has been worked out with especial thoroughness is the prescriptivism of R.M. Hare . |
| 25 | The idea may have been worked out with some care or , at the other extreme , it may have been put up spontaneously at a meeting convened to discuss the content of a future programme of activity . |
| 26 | The South African was looking for this patterning , to ensure they had not been foisted off with sand-blasted bottle-glass or the other principal substitute , cubic zirconia . |
| 27 | If she could say playfully , in public , that he had been fiddling about with one design for three years , their conversations on his work in private must have been explosive . |
| 28 | Eventually the pair connected , and Knuckles presented Owens with a track he had been working on with Japanese musician Satoshi Tomii . |
| 29 | Two minutes later she was tapping on his office door , clutching to her bosom the file of notes and sketches that she had been working on with such enthusiasm all week . |
| 30 | Yeah well at the end of the day I mean I I was n't there but a the facts at the end of the day were that they 'd been buggering about with that radio system which they should n't do . |