Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] with [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost everywhere the Japanese soldiers were received with shouts of Banzai : the Japanese made much of the Jayabhaya prophecy and most Indonesians believed that now they would be free . |
| 2 | All six patients with active cytomegalovirus infection were treated with infusions of foscarnet . |
| 3 | They were interspersed with rows of vines , whose high branches must have made the harvest very hard work . |
| 4 | The Spanish writer Gomez de la Serna , a friend of Picasso 's at this time and an habitué of the Bateau Lavoir during his visits to Paris , recalls that Picasso 's walls there were decorated with reproductions of El Grecos . |
| 5 | The arrival of a letter from a son or daughter was an event in which tears of relief were mixed with tears of sorrow , and the news was shared with the whole community . |
| 6 | Immediately before , and at appropriate intervals after the addition of ATP , 5ml aliquots were mixed with 1.5ml of stop solution ( 0.1M EDTA , 5% SDS ) and placed at 65°C for 5 min . |
| 7 | The walls were daubed with splashes of paint , and here and there large eyes were drawn , with daggers sticking out of them . |
| 8 | The Independent of Feb. 20 also reported that al-Nouri had estimated that 18 million people were threatened with epidemics of cholera and typhoid because of damage to water and sewage systems . |
| 9 | All were matted with puffs of trees ; the bright thread of a waterfall was laid over one , a snail 's silver trail ; and one was crossed by a great rift that made it appear a giant 's helter-skelter . |
| 10 | Some mornings we galloped over the open plain below the Legation ; at that hour the tracks were threaded with groups of villagers on their way to market in Addis Ababa . |
| 11 | Twenty employees from Columbia Gas attended the seminar , and were presented with certificates of completion the following month . |
| 12 | Ten of the county 's up-and-coming young sports stars were presented with grants of £1,000 each by council chairman Coun Ted Wood at a ceremony in Middlesbrough . |
| 13 | Subjects ( children aged between 4:6 and 9:9 ) were presented with sequences of pictures . |
| 14 | Steve 's prompt action was recalled at a special dinner in Southend when he and 13 other Credit Card staff were presented with Quality of Service Awards — a selection of crystal — by Senior Manager Bob Docherty . |
| 15 | It is probable , however , that this was an exception rather than the rule — most deaf people before the start of deaf education did not marry , and those that did , like Sir John Gawdy , Sir Edward Gostwicke and Alexander Popham , all came from wealthy families where there was a desire to continue the family line and marriages were made with daughters of families that were of the landed gentry . |
| 16 | The linoleum flooring was muddied and the wooden bench-tables were stained with slops of food and drops of spilt tea and coffee . |
| 17 | Their store rooms were crammed with piles of objects , from furniture to fencing , and some of the corridors were blocked with the mounds of things they had made over the years . |
| 18 | The energy giant 's third quarter results , unveiled yesterday , were disappointing with losses of £342m for the period to September . |
| 19 | Royal agents were equipped with letters of credit to enable them to use these services . |
| 20 | Both Bernard and Adalard were born with prospects of wealth and power in the Carolingian world . |
| 21 | The troubled signs of this ‘ ordinary ’ street life were very much in evidence , however , and press reports were packed with accounts of assaults and robberies , ‘ dipping ’ gangs at race meetings , gang fights and stabbings , vandalism , punch-ups and ‘ free fights ’ . |
| 22 | No doubt the roofs of the more prestigious buildings were coated with layers of cement . |
| 23 | Some of the pipes were rigid , others appeared flexible ; some were ribbed , some bulged and sagged , some were bundled with spirals of cable . |
| 24 | His claims were greeted with roars of laughter . |
| 25 | As Mr Clarke was interviewed , his answers were greeted with cries of outrage . |
| 26 | His feet were protected with strips of hide . |
| 27 | The streets were thronged with packets of policemen , drawn from several county forces each with its different helmet . |
| 28 | Desks were littered with yards of wire stories , celebrity bulletins , picture handouts , telephone messages , and empty coffee cups . |
| 29 | At that time the burrow entrances were started with lengths of pipe , covered with cordwood and faggots and spaced some 40 yards ( 36.5 metres ) apart in parkland . |
| 30 | The walls were lined with layers of raincoats of a uniform dun , as though their colours had run together ; they went back years — some had even belonged to her father and were so stiff and cracked that they could have stood unsupported . |