Example sentences of "[be] [verb] with [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It was the best going I could hope to see , but just beyond that wall of water , minutes away , the ground became lacerated with gulleys , as if a maze of streams had scored the ground and had been filled with sand .
2 Like most people who knew Joyce well , she had been filled with trepidation at the prospect of seeing someone trying on Joyce 's inimitable footwear .
3 The gaps between the walls of the coral skeleton have been filled with calcite , showing up as the lighter colours of the sections .
4 Once he and his henchman had been obliged to leave the wrecked apartment on the avenue Foch , he had been filled with apprehension at having to report his failure direct to Teheran .
5 The empty chambers are usually supposed to have been filled with gas , which help to give the animal buoyancy , and via the siphuncle the animal can vary its buoyancy to control its position in the water column .
6 We 'd been filled with school milk and cod-liver oil and orange juice , but only the few scheme-housing children had bathrooms .
7 The wadi would rarely have been filled with water , but deep down , the soil was moist , and trees were able to drink from its reserve .
8 His eyes , which , moments earlier , had been filled with fear and horror , were now clear , almost calm .
9 The people behind the BBC soap opera Eldorado had been filled with fear and trepidation .
10 Page upon page has been filled with Cabinet splits , the Europe crisis , the economic crisis , the industrial and jobs crisis , the Mellor crisis … and a crisis of leadership .
11 The gap left by the withdrawal of the worst examples has been filled with Class 312s , and ex-London Midland 310s .
12 The mandatory field listed has not been filled with information .
13 The 40ft long deep crack in the wall of Pershore Abbey 's south transept can still be clearly seen , although it 's now been filled with cement .
14 True , at the start he had been filled with remorse .
15 She had once embraced the world with her enthusiasm , laughed at life , had been filled with compassion for those less fortunate , and what was she now ?
16 At one time , the space between the timbers would have been filled with mud and straw .
17 Many were guessing that it had been filled with pepper or castor-oil or some other foul-tasting substance that would make the boy violently sick .
18 All sections are counterstained with cresyl violet .
19 Countries to the east of us are in time zones with local time that is ahead of GMT , whereas local time and the time zones to the west are delayed with respect to ours .
20 Here the vapors above heated Na 3 PO 4 have been co-condensed with argon .
21 So family memories are tinged with sadness :
22 ‘ All this time I have been riddled with guilt wondering if I would know his face .
23 ‘ I now have a wonderful little boy who is absolutely perfection , ’ she says , ‘ I know I might have had another wonderful child but I would have been riddled with doubt for most of its life . ’
24 However , unconsciously I must have been riddled with remorse for so neglecting my duties .
25 At almost every level , attitudes to Karajan have been riddled with paradox and inconsistency .
26 The issue of interpretation arises again , because many systems considered have not been examined with fibre optics , through they have this potential .
27 Walls and ceilings in the germination rooms and steeping areas have been clad with plastic panelling to facilitate cleaning .
28 There is the special delight Britons have in gossip , especially when it is hinted that politics are spiced with sex .
29 Most meetings are punctuated with champagne toasts , many are held in expensive restaurants .
30 Japan 's prime minister , whose chief asset is his reputation for honesty , was under pressure to bring into his cabinet politicians who had been tainted with scandal .
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