Example sentences of "she had be [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | A JUDGE was forced to scrap a lengthy criminal trial after a woman juror claimed she had been threatened with the sack . |
| 2 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 3 | She said she had been threatened with hundreds of pickets if she did not reinstate Miss Owen . |
| 4 | I received a call from another constituent who was frightened because she had been slapped with not one warrant sale but two , yet she had paid her poll tax . |
| 5 | And it looked as if she had been stabbed with a weapon that had a central rib ; the wound gaped quite a bit in the middle . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Not this breathtaking house , nor its even more breathtaking surroundings , and certainly not the warm , welcoming atmosphere she had been met with . |
| 8 | She wondered how much of what she had been born with was left . |
| 9 | He studied her a moment , remembering what her cousin , Yin Wu Tsai had said : that she had been born with a woman 's body and yet a man 's soul . |
| 10 | Round him , she was talkative in order to provoke him into replying , and the attempt made her a habitual confessor , though she would have been amazed if she had been charged with talking about herself all the time . |
| 11 | When she had left Madam Lundy 's presence earlier she had been shivering with reaction , but that had now passed , leaving her calm , her options clear . |
| 12 | She lived for many years , and preserved a record that she had been treated with Penicillium . |
| 13 | She had been treated with the utmost stupidity . |
| 14 | She had been treated with drugs , which made her feel worse , and found it difficult to speak at all . |
| 15 | Since hearing of Anna 's job , she had been fired with restiveness , pacing round her small green-and-magnolia sitting-room , peering yearningly out of its single window at the narrow terrace which was all of the outside world that she owned . |
| 16 | A mere two days before she had been deliberating with other world leaders at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe . |
| 17 | She had been swopped with another baby 13 years before in a tragic hospital blunder . |
| 18 | Isolated from her sons , Diana had been expecting a visit from Gilbey at Althorp House where she had been staying with her brother , Charles . |
| 19 | She slipped off the edge of the bed as if she had been injected with new life . |
| 20 | With a start , he saw that the girl in black underwear was slumped , dead , across a couch and that she had been strangled with a scarf , which was still knotted around her neck . |
| 21 | Matilda took the knife she had been eating with , and all four of them crept towards the dining-room door , the father keeping well behind the others . |
| 22 | When she had been wrestling with him she had used the foul language common among gypsies . |
| 23 | Like most people who knew Joyce well , she had been filled with trepidation at the prospect of seeing someone trying on Joyce 's inimitable footwear . |
| 24 | She then pointed to the recipe — Turkish Stuffing for a whole Roast Sheep — delighted by the disparity between the thought of this sheep and the few ounces of meat a week which begun jotting down recipes for this book after she had been sent back to England in 1945 , owing to her health , from New Delhi , where she had been living with her husband . |
| 25 | As Lou 's story progressed , however , it emerged that she had been living with Rick for several months and had high hopes of becoming engaged to him herself . |
| 26 | She had been living with the Wilsons for nearly three months . |
| 27 | Mrs Hepburn said she had been living with her husband at the time of the alleged crimes but was now in the process of divorcing him . |
| 28 | If his hair swayed into her face as they settled in the bus she wanted to hold it , to rub her cheek on it , to put it to her lips , and she thought there would be no pleasure in the world like giving in to him , which she had been anticipating with impatience but anxiety for so long . |
| 29 | One , Martha Barratt , had been very noisy at times , and he had been told that she had been found with a knife in her bed . |
| 30 | She had been working with IMP for just under a year now and had managed to contribute significantly to their joint effort , so she did n't feel quite as inadequate as she had when she first joined them . |