Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] [vb pp] [adv prt] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been hosed down with cold water while standing naked in the snow , ’ said one man . |
| 2 | I 've been cooped up with my work , but I 'm sure my security staff would have notified me of any unexpected guests . ’ |
| 3 | A form of attitudinism which has been worked out with especial thoroughness is the prescriptivism of R.M. Hare . |
| 4 | They were on a promontory which had been built up with blocks of granite . |
| 5 | Hurrying towards her across a central green which had been planted out with trees and flowers . |
| 6 | Renamo , which had been set up with the support of the white minority government in Rhodesia and which after Zimbabwean independence received substantial South African assistance , was opposed to the Marxist regime imposed by the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique ( Frelimo ) . |
| 7 | He reached over to his jacket , which had been thrown down with no particular care for its value , and pulled out the captured billfold . |
| 8 | Xanthe for her part considered her image beside the young woman she 'd been brought up with , and thought how sorry she felt for her . |
| 9 | Then this lad who 'd been padded up with John come round to see us . |
| 10 | It depends what you 've been brought up with though dun n it ? |
| 11 | Yeah , and of course they say it 's easier , but if you 've been brought up with it , well yes it 's dead easier |
| 12 | It was this lack of division that most effectively concealed from Clara the basic , classic structure of the building , for she had been brought up with the notion that walls must be above eye-level , lace curtains impenetrable , bedrooms facing discreetly into the void . |
| 13 | She had changed into some clothes brought for her by a clerk who had been sent out with a handful of roubles to a nearby shop . |
| 14 | But Louisa , who had been brought up with her father 's constant comment that she was ‘ the prettiest girl in the world ’ , grew up with a very unreal need to feel praised and fêted for her looks , and when as a teenager she did n't get the same kind of compliments from other people , she not surprisingly felt unloved and unattractive as a result . |
| 15 | Two suitably romantic leaders , who escaped in time , now emerged , the 26-year-old third Earl of Derwentwater , a grandson of Charles II by one of his mistresses , who had been brought up with the Old Pretender at St Germain , and become a major landowner in Westmorland , and Thomas Forster , an MP for Northumberland . |
| 16 | They might also reveal that you have been in some distant shopping mall far from your usual stomping ground on a day on which you had sworn ( at least to the office ) that you had been laid up with flu . |
| 17 | Businessmen working away from home frequently describe the tension on their return when their partners , who have been shut in with the children all week , suggest going out for dinner . |
| 18 | ‘ You know you have no father or mother , ’ said the first man , ‘ and that you have been brought up with other orphans ? ’ |
| 19 | So , I think possibly a little more thought in the actual , I think the actual shape of the girl there , the way she 's actually sitting is fine , but er it , it looks as if she 's been propped up with , you know , you better put this stool under your foot to hold that up and put this crutch under your arm to hold that up and |
| 20 | If we 'd been put back with an American maybe it meant that at least one of us could expect to be released . |
| 21 | We sat on the bank , dejected , wondering what we would have to do to find ‘ proper ’ trout fishing , such as we had been brought up with in our native land . |
| 22 | They felt as if they 'd been scoured out with a Brillo pad . |
| 23 | What we have done , when they 've been cut off with erm electricity in particular , erm we liaise with D H S S for them to help their erm to get their their deductions made a at a level which does n't leave them erm you know too short of money . |
| 24 | What I really love about these guitars — the 12-strings especially — is that they 've been set up with the lowest , most buzz-free actions imaginable . |
| 25 | My my s young bones they 've been pulled down with carrying these er er all these pails of water . |
| 26 | Oh I do , I do and my mates is on er , of course they 've been brought up with the metric system you see and he 's |
| 27 | They had been trussed up with cord and partly wrapped in polythene bags and blankets . |
| 28 | They had been caught up with at Dornock , east of Annan , on the shore of the Solway , by a fast-riding English host under Sir Anthony de Lucy of Cockermouth , who had crossed the shallow firth at lowest tide by the temporarily dried-out Knockeross sands , from Bowness in Cumberland . |
| 29 | This last observation may mean that additions , repairs and restorations could be recognised even if they had been carried out with lacquer from the lacquer tree instead of imitations of it . |
| 30 | The cropmark was similar to a large square , only some parts of the square were missing , almost if they had been rubbed out with a large eraser . |