Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | However , the London skyline was lit up with the huge warehouse fire . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | One police van was backed up to the door of the house and a boy was taken out with a blanket over his head . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A small girl was messing about with the birthday cards in Mr Pascall 's shop . |
| 18 | A teenage girl was camping out with a number of friends on field at , which is situated between Lane and Lane . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Our era was ushered in with a reminder that the flood remained not entirely tamed . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And he added : ‘ The bat was thrown about with an abandon that was strangely absent from their efforts in the one-dayers . ’ |
| 26 | A similar investigation was carried out with the lexicon used in the current system to determine it 's ability to cope with unseen text . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | A large portion of the large room was taken up with a large number of very large men . |
| 29 | A larger room was taken up with the endless daily washing that miners ' wives were obliged to do . |
| 30 | The day was rounded off with a picnic and the purchase of commemorative T-shirts . |