Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our spare room ( with the toys in ) was unfortunately impenetrably filled with sitting-room furniture ( the sitting-room is awaiting redecoration ) , but the boys managed to entertain themselves in the empty sitting-room instead . |
| 2 | Yes , crushed apple was a very good medicine when properly blended with glucose and sterile milk for small stomachs . |
| 3 | I brought my heel down on his instep , and then caught his forehead with my knee as he instinctively doubled with pain . |
| 4 | He says he would rather stay with mum . |
| 5 | I 'd rather stay with mother and become a real old maid . |
| 6 | Malaria — effectively treated with quinine , from the cinchona tree of Peru |
| 7 | Worldwide there are now many millions of patients who have been successfully treated with ciprofloxacin either in hospital or as outpatients in general practice . |
| 8 | In this series , the histological diagnosis was based on biopsy specimens , staging procedures systematically included abdominal and chest computed tomography and bone marrow biopsy , and most patients were not operated on but were successfully treated with monochemotherapy . |
| 9 | Fortunately the police did not prosecute and she was very successfully treated with medication . |
| 10 | How Grimm basked in that word ‘ bold ’ — not from pride , Jaq sensed , but because to utter such a compliment Meh'Lindi could not be wholly filled with self-loathing . |
| 11 | Alice Mair 's strong but elegant hands with their short nails , Hilary Robarts 's long , knobbled fingers , the delicacy of Meg Dennison 's pink-tipped fingers , a little reddened with housework . |
| 12 | The controversy received a new lease of life in March 1983 when the Irish Farmers Monthly published a confidential , internal IBM report and claimed that up to 2,000 acres of agricultural land near the mine were so badly contaminated with lead , zinc and arsenic that they were unsuitable for agriculture . |
| 13 | As a foreigner she had great difficulty getting admitted there as an apprentice , but eventually succeeded with assistance from the Duke of Orleans . |
| 14 | There , pit latrines inside homes take pride of place , their arched entrances lavishly embellished with stone carvings . |
| 15 | An unusual discovery of recent date proved to be the so-called Sebasteion ( after Sebastos , Greek equivalent of Augustus ) , a striking building complex dedicated to Aphrodite and the cult of the emperor Augustus and his Julio-Claudian dynasty , and lavishly decorated with relief sculpture . |
| 16 | Mrs Ainsworth 's home was lavishly decorated with tinsel and holly , rows of drinks stood on the sideboard and the rich aroma of turkey and sage and onion sag wafted from the kitchen . |
| 17 | I walk through the lounge thinking something looks wrong somehow , then stop and stand still where the lounge opens out into the main terminal building , suddenly filled with horror and confusion ; it 's all too small and not shaped right ! |
| 18 | Ronni scowled at him , suddenly filled with alarm at the way his arm was round her waist and at the way her body longed to sink unresisting against it . |
| 19 | The curtains were only a few inches apart and he pushed them aside so that the room was suddenly filled with light . |
| 20 | Each day was blessed with the same strangely cool weather , until one evening the clear sky suddenly filled with haze and the new moon faded out of sight as though sailing out of orbit into oblivion . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , Fabia , ’ Ven murmured swiftly , and his look suddenly filled with understanding . |
| 22 | I was suddenly filled with fear and doubt . |
| 23 | Actor Bill Roache , alias Ken Barlow , added : ‘ The cast is all filled with admiration for the way they sustain the standards of our scripts . ’ |
| 24 | Evelyn 's voice was so filled with despair that Kate felt rage again . |
| 25 | He had been told very little , and even that he had difficulty in remembering because he was so filled with excitement and anticipation . |
| 26 | But he 's so bitter , so filled with resentment , and I ca n't promise that I will ever be able to change that . |
| 27 | Only now mattered , for the present moment was so filled with beauty that it smothered the effort of climbing , and with every gasp of breath came a physical response to the glory of the day . |
| 28 | She described a recent visit to her local Samaritans ' branch , where a voluntary worker told her that they received telephone calls from teenagers who were ‘ so filled with fear , and so depressed by the constant threat of a nuclear accident ’ that they had to be deterred from committing suicide . |
| 29 | ‘ That girl is so filled with energy . |
| 30 | Richard Morton is generally credited with the first medical description in 1689 and he poignantly captured the key clinical feature : ‘ I do not remember that I did ever in all my practice see one , that was conversant with the living so much wasted with the greatest degree of a consumption ( like a skeleton only clad with skin ) ’ . |