Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kitchen was filled instantly with a loud snuffling noise , interspersed with grunts ; Edward , perking up , poured out his tea and listened attentively . |
| 2 | The Soviet Union decided to endorse the expulsion of Escalante : Castro was henceforth referred to as ‘ comrade ’ and Cuba 's place in the Soviet bloc was officially acknowledged when it was listed along with the other ’ socialist' states in the traditional May Day slogans . |
| 3 | So the problem was to come up with the right kind of songs which would still act as vehicles for the guitar — because , basically , the song itself is the most important thing . |
| 4 | She wore a pale pink dress that swirled around slender legs and her hair was caught back with a matching headband . |
| 5 | He was frozen there with an appalled sense of waste , that his cohort had denied him his greatest discovery . |
| 6 | An experiment was carried out with a mixed age group of macaques . |
| 7 | The procedure described above ( homogenisation , extraction , two dimensional chromatography , and densitometric reading ) was carried out with the gastric mucosa sample ( A ) , the phospholipid mixture ( B ) , and the mucosa sample and phospholipid mixture together ( C=A+B ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | TRANMERE defender Tony Thomas was carried off with a broken leg after only two minutes of this Anglo-Italian Cup-tie last night . |
| 10 | Everything was happening now with a distant , dreamlike certainty . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I was fed up with the yucky mouldy silicone round the edge and reckoned a proper job should be done on it . |
| 14 | You said er , I told , I told him I was fed up with the General Secretary of this union that had n't given us any backing and you said sorry Phil , but I 'm not the General Secretary . |
| 15 | I was fed up with the European promoters who seemed obsessed by the American sprinters . |
| 16 | He was fed up with the whole situation , and all Francesca 's family . |
| 17 | A BUS manager who was forced to give up a rural route said yesterday she was fed up with the whole business . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | At least that was something that was done out with the normal course of duty , so like I think . |
| 20 | He was looking round with a vacant look on his face and I was frightened . |
| 21 | Behind her , Nahum was looking on with an unsmiling face . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In c-f , the anti-Bcl-2 antibody was used simultaneously with the anti-ER or anti-mitochondrial protein antibodies . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It usually took Erlich little more than 30 seconds to get his shoes presentable , but Ruane was burnishing now with a golden duster . |
| 28 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 29 | He was going out with a silly cow of an art student and she lent him the book . |
| 30 | I nodded to her and to Aline , who was Franco-Vietnamese and engaged to Hugh Watt , one of Ashley 's multitudinous cousins from the branch of the family that seemed to favour consorts of an exotic provenance ( Hugh 's brother Craig was going out with a stunning , lanky Nigerian called Noor ) . |