Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv] with a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A capsule of SeHCAT ( 10 µCi , Amersham International ) was given orally with a drink of water and the initial count rate ( 100% value ) was measured three hours after the intake of isotope ( day 0 ) , by an uncollimated gamma camera ( Porta Camera , General Electric Nuclear Medical ApS , Horsholm , Denmark ) . |
| 2 | This was carried out with a sample of some 2,000 establishments in 1980 and in 1984 ( see , Daniel/Millward , 1983 ; Millward/Stevens , 1986 ) . |
| 3 | Last year 's survey was carried out with a group of practitioners at an audit regulation meeting run by the Southern Society , and in view of the continuing concerns about regulation , we repeated this exercise with 160 practitioners who attended a similar meeting in October 1992. 64 responses were received , some of which represented one response from several representatives of the same firm . |
| 4 | Rowledge sliced a penalty wide of the target before having better luck with a kick just inside the half-way line , and there was a real setback for the visitors when Cook was carried off with a leg injury . |
| 5 | Arsenal have slipped to sixth after three successive Premier League defeats , and they will be without England full-back Lee Dixon for at least a month after he was carried off with a knee injury . |
| 6 | Five minutes later skipper Alan Kernaghan was carried off with a knee injury and Middlesbrough delayed the introduction of substitute Jon Gittens for five minutes . |
| 7 | Internationals Paul Moriarty , who was carried off with a knee problem , and Bobby Goulding were injured in Sunday 's 48-16 defeat at Headingley and forwards Steve McCurrie and Harvey Howard both appear before the disciplinary commission on Thursday after being sent off . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Fortunately , his employer was lenient and he was let off with a caution . |
| 10 | The tailwheel was made to be retractable and a third seat was added along with a gun position . |
| 11 | He landed about 300 yards from a destroyer and was picked up with a leg broken in four places and a broken arm . |
| 12 | and he was fobbed off with an under-secretaryship ; in 1922 he worked actively to bring the coalition down . |
| 13 | ‘ She was hung up with a rope round her neck . |
| 14 | Another was seen later with a breast wound . |
| 15 | Kurtz 's own experiment demonstrated positive transfer ( to a verbal paired-associate task ) in subjects given same — different pre-training , but unfortunately the comparison was made only with a group given no pre-training at all . |
| 16 | The protestant refugees , inhabitants , and garrison of the city , which was built deliberately with a wall lest a catholic rebellion should ever occur , held the city for fifteen weeks against a poorly equipped catholic Irish army led by James II , the exiled king . |
| 17 | The 47-year-old businesswoman , of Crowthorne , Berkshire , a former air hostess who flew with the Queen , was stabbed repeatedly with an eight-inch carving or butcher 's knife while loading shopping into her car near the station . |
| 18 | She half believed him now , simply because she knew a man like Luke would n't invent something of this nature , but the belief was shot through with a conviction that he was talking about more than sating an inconvenient lust . |
| 19 | In the worst case , a black student standing at the bus stop with his pregnant girlfriend was shot twice with an air gun . |
| 20 | A ripple of laughter went through the staff , but it was silenced instantly with a look from him . |
| 21 | ‘ The treatment was two doses of a very potent drug with rather nasty side effects ; I also had to swallow a small container on the end of a string and sleep with the string taped to my cheek all night ; in the morning it was drawn out with a sample of stomach contents . |
| 22 | She refused to marry the first husband proposed by her father , and ran away more than once with lovers of her own choosing ; when she came home pregnant she was sold off with a dowry to a plumber called William Wright . |
| 23 | Dara was dressed in ‘ dirty cloth of the coarsest texture , and his sorry turban was wrapped around with a muffler like that worn by the meanest of people . ’ |
| 24 | Foulds went off 15 minutes later with a neck injury and No 8 Brooks was helped off with a leg injury shortly afterwards . |
| 25 | Like that of Curgenven , his own rising professional career was bound up with a commitment to expansionist sanitary reform . |
| 26 | The box was always somewhere on the floor by his bed , and was tied up with a bow , as if it was a precious parcel or a gift intended for a special person ; the bow was tied from a length of scarlet nylon ribbon which Boy had seen in the dustbin outside a florist 's , and had stolen , and taken home and ironed , having sensed at once that its splendid colour made it suitable for the tying up of this very special box . |
| 27 | His hair was tied back with a piece of tinsel string he had found in the Christmas decorations box . |
| 28 | well you could get one , one and a half ton truck on it and it was driven across with a couple of |
| 29 | Just about every fertility clinic in the country was set up with a government grant . |
| 30 | A small project was set up with a group of students who had chosen library work as part of their Foundation Study . |