Example sentences of "they [verb] [been] [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was wearing biker leathers and cowboy boots which all looked as if they 'd been applied with the aid of a shoehorn . |
| 2 | ‘ It appears there 'd been a big row and a parting of the ways before my agent tracked them down , but my premise was right : they 'd been staying with one of Svend 's college friends at his parents ’ apartment on the outskirts of the city . |
| 3 | They 'd been issued with Sterling by Lloyds Bank . |
| 4 | They 'd been muffled with rags and pieces of tyre , but it was still a lash-up . |
| 5 | His jeans looked as if they 'd been slashed with a knife . |
| 6 | Isobel was ambitious , and had her sights set on the national news media ; unfortunately , so did every other young news-hustler in every backwater station in the country , and few of them were having to contend with sinuses that felt as if they 'd been stuffed with pillows . |
| 7 | Since they were erected four months ago , at a cost of ten thousand pounds , they 've been daubed with paint and stuffed with litter . |
| 8 | They will also completely cover up imperfections , have good sound and heat insulation properties and , if they 've been treated with protective spray , will last for years and years — long after paint has become chipped and discoloured , and paper faded . |
| 9 | We have that many er applications I mean I 've just gone through A division and I 've got er a pile of cards literally an inch thick with people a made an initial inquiry or b they 've been furnished with questionnaires and not been returned , so I 'm sending those er right through the divisions |
| 10 | They 've been inundated with them I expect |
| 11 | They 've been marching with full-time soldiers in Horseguards Parade . |
| 12 | They 've been injected with plutonium in an effort to find out exactly how the radioactive substance affects people . |
| 13 | They 've been injected with plutonium in an effort to find out exactly how the radioactive substance affects people . |
| 14 | They have come in for quite a bit of stick , particularly when they 've been dealing with rape cases . |
| 15 | He had an impulse to say , ‘ This is the music of 1988 ; these are our heroes ; that building on the headland is our architecture and I dare not stop my car to help children home because they 've been taught with good reason that a strange man might abduct and rape them . ’ |
| 16 | They 've been cut with gas axe . |
| 17 | They 've been left with no job , no family support and with long-term illnesses . |
| 18 | N nowadays I hear erm or the lads who have been they go out They 've been working with contractor and they say how different it is when your mother was alive , everybody who came here they they used to join us for their dinner . |
| 19 | The sextuplets are seven today and they 've been celebrating with cakes , presents and party games . |
| 20 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |
| 21 | Sorry if it 's the first thing you see in the morning , still it 's not everyone who can say they 've been sleeping with a Jesuit . |
| 22 | They swirled together as though they had been stirred with a spoon . |
| 23 | There they lived their lives , and prospered for a while ; but there was a disquiet amongst them , for it was said that they had been created with a purpose in this life , and that the purpose had something to do with the manner of their creation . |
| 24 | They had been charged with a variety of public order offences and been released on police bail to appear before magistrates at a later date . |
| 25 | Under an agreement with the mostly Pakistani residents , the trust bought for £1 each the dilapidated Grade II-listed homes , dating from 1848–51 , after they had been threatened with demolition . |
| 26 | Under an agreement with the mostly Pakistani residents , the trust bought for £1 each the dilapidated Grade II-listed homes , dating from 1848–51 , after they had been threatened with demolition . |
| 27 | They were excluded if they had been treated with steroids , cytotoxic drugs , antibiotics , anti-ulcer drugs , or if they had had gastroduodenal surgery . |
| 28 | This magic had been happening while they had been closeted with the policeman discussing the prosaic and sordid details of the burglary . |
| 29 | To demonstrate a sensitive period of the type he was proposing , it would be necessary to show that adults who had left a kibbutz at the age of six were not sexually attracted by members of the opposite sex whom they had been reared with while still in the kibbutz . |
| 30 | 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 . |