Example sentences of "[pron] have been [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see I 've been entrusted with the task of getting him safely back to the Reich and I 've little more than three weeks to do it in . ’ |
| 2 | Police say someone has been helping with inquiries and an inquest will be opened into the young man 's death tomorrow . |
| 3 | Police say someone has been helping with inquiries and an inquest will be opened into the young man 's death tomorrow . |
| 4 | Police say someone has been helping with inquiries and an inquest will be opened into the young man 's death tomorrow . |
| 5 | Police say someone has been helping with inquiries and an inquest will be opened into the young man 's death tomorrow . |
| 6 | The Emissary 's Illusochamber had also been free of bugging devices as I 'd found when I 'd been fiddling with my headband , activating a mini-ceptor in one of the jewels . |
| 7 | By then large drops were falling all around me , another landing on my wig and one splashing on my shoulder , making me jump as if I 'd been prodded with a therm-knife . |
| 8 | Like a fool I told her about the man I 'd been living with . |
| 9 | My eyes watered with pain , with chlorine from the swimming pool and with oil from the rag I 'd been blindfolded with . |
| 10 | Anyway , I 'd been staying with them in darkest Kensington , at Mr Gibbon 's very grand , three-storeyed town-house in Ascot Square , just off Addison Road , and working at a branch of Mondo-Food on Victoria Street ( they were trying a new line in Haggisburgers at the time and the manager thought my accent would help shift them . |
| 11 | He is very strict , and would dismiss me if he found out I 'd been interfering with his books . |
| 12 | The vasectomy dated from 1980 , when a girl I 'd been sleeping with told me she was embarazada . |
| 13 | Some of the theories would have made Balzac blush , but they finally decided I 'd been sleeping with Laura , her husband had beaten me up in a dark alley , and now I was on my way to kill him . |
| 14 | And the players I 'd been working with previously went along with me , from using my modified equipment to using my custom-built equipment . |
| 15 | ‘ I fancied a change of scene from London where I 'd been working with the Bank of England in-house catering team ’ she said . |
| 16 | If I had been staying with you I … |
| 17 | With a gloomy wantonness of imagination I had been coquetting with the hideous possibles of disappointment . |
| 18 | I had been struggling with tears for some time and now I let them flow freely . |
| 19 | I had been dealing with trivia but this was different . |
| 20 | He was overlooking the fact that I had been living with Jean-Claude for more than three years . |
| 21 | Again I thought , well , the world 's there whenever I want it and I had been presented with an incredible opportunity . ’ |
| 22 | This seems strange to me now because I feel sure that if I had been presented with the image of the glass coffin when I was well into the depressive phase of anorexia , I should have recognised it instantly . |
| 23 | It had been impossible to think of the future since John 's abduction , but 17 April was only weeks away and I had been discussing with Chris and Nick how we might mark it in some way . |
| 24 | I had been overwhelmed with duties as head of the government , and had made no dispositions for the emergency which occurred . |
| 25 | ‘ I had been rowing with my dad since I was little , so I did n't want to go to his new family with my brother . |
| 26 | I had bought a pair of trousers and a T-shirt when I had been shopping with a friend . |
| 27 | Whoever expected the little grey devils I had been assaulting with white arrows and rolling with white healing balls to reappear in my lung ? |
| 28 | Next I went to the Clerecia , where I had been sitting with Dana watching that wall-clock 's gift pendulum busily wagging away on the wall in front of the great baroque gilt altar . |
| 29 | I had been preoccupied with the alchemical vision for some time , but it had become words , ideas , a mere prejudice in favour of the angels , if you like . |
| 30 | I wanted to join in , but I was only two and a half , and this was the first time I had been left with people I did n't know . |