Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] with a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were catching up with an interrupted past , not forestalling a proletarian future . |
| 2 | In cephalaspids ( Cephalaspis illustrated ) the eyes were placed dorsally with a single nasohypophysial opening and the flattened head shield was fenestrated by enlarged sensory fields connected to the inner ear . |
| 3 | Fine creases where the colour had flaked off the shoes were painted in with a rich reunite of permanent rose and white , whilst permanent rose was used alone for some minor details like the punchmarks on the orange strap loops and the stitching around the edges of the straps themselves . |
| 4 | Often three different types of roof — pyramid , hip , and gable — were included together with a wide variety of dormers in the upper storey . |
| 5 | Rats were pretreated subcutaneously with a total dose of 125 mg/kg capsaicin 14 days before the experiments . |
| 6 | Samples were collected continuously with a refrigerated autosampler ( CMA200 , Carnegie Medicin , Stockholm , Sweden ) over 30 min intervals with the frequency increased to every 3 min during a seizure . |
| 7 | Whilst the pathfinders had the original control of H2S , developments were going on with a fair measure of practical input from Bennett and his friends at TRE , and eventually a superior set was devised and known as the 3cm HS . |
| 8 | Hopes were raised again with a superb performance at Shrewsbury . |
| 9 | At that same moment the Cubist painters , other than Picasso and Braque , were making contact with each other on the basis of common pictorial interests , while the Italians were banded together with an elaborate programme but no adequate means of expressing it . |
| 10 | As young children , Peter and his sister Norah , were brought up with a strong emphasis on Ukrainian culture . |
| 11 | Other studies have shown similarly extensive local group activity but in Birmingham , only about one-third were politically active and most of these ( 63 per cent ) were involved only with a single issue . |
| 12 | The village contained little more than cottages , but the spirit of the day had been caught … and two or three of the best of them were smartened up with a white curtain and ‘ lodgings to let ’ — and further on in the little green court of an old farm house , two females in elegant white were actually to be seen with their books and camp-stools — and in turning the corner of the baker 's shop , the sound of a harp might be heard through the upper casement . |
| 13 | Because his refusal to be sincere about his feelings toward her leads her further away from her own values , she begins to resent the way in which he constantly gives her the linguistic slip : ‘ Concepts which still meant much to her , by which she had once lived , were swerved aside with a smart epigram , a pun , a quotation , a dirty story ’ ( 170 ) . |
| 14 | The kitchen was filled instantly with a loud snuffling noise , interspersed with grunts ; Edward , perking up , poured out his tea and listened attentively . |
| 15 | She wore a pale pink dress that swirled around slender legs and her hair was caught back with a matching headband . |
| 16 | He was frozen there with an appalled sense of waste , that his cohort had denied him his greatest discovery . |
| 17 | An experiment was carried out with a mixed age group of macaques . |
| 18 | Bodin 's pass back was under-hit , Duffield and Gittens seized on it and , while Gittins did what Duffield was intending , sliding the ball under the advancing Digby , Duffield stayed down and was carried off with a broken leg . |
| 19 | TRANMERE defender Tony Thomas was carried off with a broken leg after only two minutes of this Anglo-Italian Cup-tie last night . |
| 20 | Everything was happening now with a distant , dreamlike certainty . |
| 21 | According to Captain Trentham 's report , he was picked up with a single bullet wound in his right hand while lying in the mud only a few yards in front of his own trench . |
| 22 | Stukeley 's brief description ( p. 84 , Vol. i ) reads ‘ Brigcasterton … was fenced about with a deep mote on two sides , the river supplying its use on the other two ; for it stands at an angle , and the Romans made a little curve in the road here on purpose to take it in , as it offered itself so conveniently , then rectified the obliquity on the other side of the town ; it consists of one street running through its length upon the road ; the great ditch and banks are called the Dikes . |
| 23 | Under these conditions , each of the deletion mutants of RAP74 was assayed along with a stoichiometrical equivalent amount of r30 for their activity of supporting in vitro transcription . |
| 24 | He was looking round with a vacant look on his face and I was frightened . |
| 25 | Behind her , Nahum was looking on with an unsmiling face . |
| 26 | An area of cleared moor was cordoned off with a wind-powered electric fence to allow heather regrowth , a method which could be repeated elsewhere ; next year 's plans for the estate , five miles north of Pateley Bridge , include protecting and encouraging the spread of bilberry , the indigenous upland plant which disappeared from large tracts of moor when bracken moved in . |
| 27 | OUR FIRST YEAR in the North Yorkshire schools was celebrated recently with a giant party in Scarborough , when our catering staff from 70 schools were joined by children , teachers , council officials and the press . |
| 28 | Curator Maryan Ainsworth of the Metropolitan Museum is quick to note that , ‘ The thorny problem of underdrawings and workshop practice in , for example , the works of Lucas Cranach and his circle is not easily resolved through underdrawing analysis , since in many cases , the picture was drawn in with a non-carbon substance , like iron-gall brown ink , that is not penetrated by infra-red , and is invisible on the reflectogram screens . |
| 29 | It usually took Erlich little more than 30 seconds to get his shoes presentable , but Ruane was burnishing now with a golden duster . |
| 30 | He was going out with a silly cow of an art student and she lent him the book . |