Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [adv prt] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a deal was hammered out with the banks , an accompanying rights issue to raise up to £400m from existing private shareholders was likely next spring . |
| 2 | An experiment was carried out with a mixed age group of macaques . |
| 3 | A former 3rd Farnham scout was heading off with the Falklands-bound Navy task force as one of the mechanics servicing the Harrier jump-jets aboard HMS Hermes . |
| 4 | The tailwheel was made to be retractable and a third seat was added along with a gun position . |
| 5 | The parkland was laid out with a smooth lawn . |
| 6 | Much of the previous chapter was taken up with the question of what kind of economy is emerging in the UK . |
| 7 | The engine of the big mechanical monster was ticking over with the deep throb of impatient , reined-in horsepower . |
| 8 | And sure enough , when he got back , the car was lined up with the arrow . |
| 9 | A warm wind was coming in with the tide . |
| 10 | On 1 October 1989 the retirement condition was abolished along with the earnings rule which placed restrictions on what national insurance pensioners could earn . |
| 11 | ‘ In 1991 , £250,000 worth of work was carried out with the help of contributions from local businesses . ’ |
| 12 | For example , emotional problems are often presented as justification for a person 's drunkenness , especially if they are female , and on one occasion a youth who had been involved in an accident but who had only just passed his driving test was let off with a caution by a policewoman in sympathy for his inexperience . |
| 13 | I closed my eyes for the rest of the journey as it had been a busy two days and I did n't feel lik& going to the council offices either , It would be too late anyway so I decided to take a stroll by the river and see how Nigel was getting on with the excavations . |
| 14 | However , the London skyline was lit up with the huge warehouse fire . |
| 15 | As we emptied our dustbins out we noticed another bin full of cold ravioli and bread left over from lunch ; the bread was mixed in with the garbage and was soggy from being in a dustbin of cold ravioli for two hours . |
| 16 | One police van was backed up to the door of the house and a boy was taken out with a blanket over his head . |
| 17 | His activities had been known to some antislavery figures long before , but in 1814 his Mitigation of Slavery was published along with an extensive and favourable account by the Scots abolitionist William Dickson in the form of Letters to Thomas Clarkson . |
| 18 | A small girl was messing about with the birthday cards in Mr Pascall 's shop . |
| 19 | A teenage girl was camping out with a number of friends on field at , which is situated between Lane and Lane . |
| 20 | Behind her , Nahum was looking on with an unsmiling face . |
| 21 | Bobo ran to the back of her cage and Fifi had to scamper out of the way to save herself from being trampled , and then Bobo was storming back with a handful of straw and dung which she hurled at Donaldson before slamming herself into the bars and screaming loudly as they shook . |
| 22 | Every top lip was pulled back off the teeth , every eye was ringed round with a reddish bruising , while their cheeks cracked like tambourines as they cough , cough , coughed . |
| 23 | In the West Indies the original unity laid down in the Carlisle grant disintegrated as the Leeward Islands broke away from Barbados and Jamaica was set up with an entirely separate governorship . |
| 24 | Fred was thundering on with the speech as though the corpse had n't fled , and at the same time bobbing up onto the balls of his feet with relief from the lost burden . |
| 25 | Later , he delivered the first of his high-tech rallies with a punchy speech and the evening was rounded off with a five-point lead in an opinion poll . |
| 26 | This hi-tech theme was carried on with the Starstream XII which featured a semi-acoustic Teardrop body , built in tuner , distortion , treble and bass boost , percussion and a hand operated wah-wah device . |
| 27 | Our era was ushered in with a reminder that the flood remained not entirely tamed . |
| 28 | In later years , a good deal of business was carried out with the Severn and Wye Railway Company , Hewlett supplying this trade for at least several decades . |
| 29 | The brass shop was laid out with the rough brass stores on one side , whence the castings passed to the machines , thence to the benches , and from there to the polishers , next to the platers and finally to the lacquerers at the other side of the shop , each operation in turn bringing the parts further across the shop . |
| 30 | PLEASE CONTINUE , those of you who have difficulty are reminded that a list of fundraising ideas was sent out with the last notes and we would hope that the areas would get together and hold rallies and/or cheese and wine evenings/coffee mornings etc . |