Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [adj] with [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been involved with fairs and circuses since the age of fourteen , when she 'd run off with a Wall of Death rider on his motorbike . |
| 2 | He 'd been involved with bands all those years and could play a bit of music but he never quite got the hang of the idea of written music . |
| 3 | But that had been seven months ago , a chill morning in mid-February , when the bushes which screened the canal walk from the neighbouring council estate had been tangled thickets of lifeless thorn ; when the branches of the ash trees had been black with buds so tight that it seemed impossible they could ever crack into greenness ; and the thin denuded wands of willow , drooping over the canal , had cut delicate feathers on the quickening stream . |
| 4 | Some of the speculation had been self-cancelling with newspapers predicting that the Government would take quite opposite courses . |
| 5 | Sir Henry Manceville had been obsessed with ghosts and . |
| 6 | Very painstaking stratigraphical work put it beyond doubt that men had been contemporary with animals now extinct , and that human history must therefore go back long before the 4004 BC computed from Genesis . |
| 7 | Jim had been good with relatives , but Jack had some extra dimension to add to it . |
| 8 | Only six winters earlier , respectable London had been awash with fears of violent crime . |
| 9 | For four days , the nearby town of Ballater had been awash with rumours that the Landau Carriage would be used — weather permitting . |
| 10 | The day had been rich with surprises . |
| 11 | The ridge had been alive with walkers . |
| 12 | The editorial was written by the editor , Mr Richard Lambert , who said the response from readers had been mild with calls running ‘ about 3½–1 against ’ . |
| 13 | While shopkeepers in Skinnergate admitted deliveries had been difficult with drivers turning back , most supported the idea of traffic-free streets . |
| 14 | She had had a husband and lovers older than herself , and each affair had been fraught with problems . |
| 15 | Since becoming Deputy Chief in 1967 I had been concerned with requests , mostly from foreign governments , to provide instruction in the practice of aircraft accident investigation . |
| 16 | Where once biologists and biochemists had been concerned with questions about where and how cells got and used their energy , the new molecular biologists had a different language for what was important . |
| 17 | But then earlier laws had been concerned with tales about the monarchy , where this one related to the regent and the French . |