Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] with [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ We were inundated with calls from members of the public and newsagents desperate for copies . |
| 2 | The remainder of the meeting was spent in looking at the Grid on which visitors envisaged were placed with Regions for Primary ( ten days to a fortnight ) or Secondary ( 5-7 days ) periods . |
| 3 | Railway official Graham Mitchell says the original tunnel builders were plagued with problems including part of the nearby Wesley Chapel sliding away . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Cells were treated with chemicals for 30min at 37 °C or as stated and then incubated for the indicated times before isolation of total RNA . |
| 6 | All six patients with active cytomegalovirus infection were treated with infusions of foscarnet . |
| 7 | The sick left there ‘ sometimes … were favoured with revelations in dreams … |
| 8 | Early works , such as Hard Times ( 1970 ) , were garnished with parables from Terkel 's memories . |
| 9 | It was not clean and tidy as if the thoughts had flowed easily ; it was double-spaced , and the spaces were larded with corrections in type and pencil , crossings-out , insertions , changed words … it was very hard to make it out . |
| 10 | They were interspersed with rows of vines , whose high branches must have made the harvest very hard work . |
| 11 | The swelling letters pages were occupied with responses to Michael Eaves , a correspondent who had suggested axing the ‘ What 's Happening ’ section , record reviews , and ads from the paper — which would have neatly killed it some years before its time — led by a contribution from one of It 's founders , David Mairowitz , ‘ who broke his b***s [ asterisks his ] seeing that It 1–10 got put together and printed . ’ |
| 12 | The Jordanian authorities were overwhelmed with demands for relief , especially food supplies , and the repatriation of foreign workers to their countries of origin . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A GANG armed with a sub-machine gun were caught with drugs worth £5 million by undercover police . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The walls were daubed with splashes of paint , and here and there large eyes were drawn , with daggers sticking out of them . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Twenty employees from Columbia Gas attended the seminar , and were presented with certificates of completion the following month . |
| 21 | THREE MOTHERS , Mrs Mary McKeown , Mrs Nellie Andrews and Mrs Eileen Ashworth were presented with certificates by Bishop Gray for reaching 50 of service to the Union of Catholic Mothers , at the celebrations of the diamond jubilee of the Holy Cross Foundation , Birkenhead . |
| 22 | SIXTY four Indonesian students were in the spotlight recently when they were presented with scholarships by LASMO . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Subjects ( children aged between 4:6 and 9:9 ) were presented with sequences of pictures . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The two ends of the bowel were closed with staples without irrigation . |
| 27 | Run-on transcription assays were performed with nuclei from control procyclic forms ( P-C ) , procyclic transformants ( P-P : integration at PstI site ; P-M : integration at MluI site ) , or bloodstream transformants ( B-P ) , obtained after fly transmission of P-P ( see text ) . |
| 28 | The linoleum flooring was muddied and the wooden bench-tables were stained with slops of food and drops of spilt tea and coffee . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The energy giant 's third quarter results , unveiled yesterday , were disappointing with losses of £342m for the period to September . |