Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] with [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Its sluices could be used to flood the whole area if it became infested with invading forces .
2 The air above and beyond the ridge became filled with wind-swirled smoke and the echoes of distant blasts .
3 The government has already invested large sums of money in engineering crops that resist insect pests and the climatic extremes expected to come with global warming
4 He admitted driving with excess alcohol but said he should n't be banned .
5 Smith , who has been jailed seven times in the last ten years , admitted driving with excess alcohol , while disqualified and without insurance .
6 Fox admitted driving with excess alcohol on his breath — he was 19 microgrammes over the limit — driving while disqualified and not being covered by insurance last November .
7 Todd yesterday admitted driving with excess alcohol and failing to stop and report an accident .
8 Todd yesterday admitted driving with excess alcohol and failing to stop and report an accident .
9 Todd yesterday admitted driving with excess alcohol and failing to stop and report an accident .
10 Todd yesterday admitted driving with excess alcohol and failing to stop and report an accident .
11 Todd yesterday admitted driving with excess alcohol and failing to stop and report an accident .
12 Todd yesterday admitted driving with excess alcohol and failing to stop and report an accident .
13 Todd yesterday admitted driving with excess alcohol and failing to stop and report an accident .
14 Todd yesterday admitted driving with excess alcohol and failing to stop and report an accident .
15 Todd yesterday admitted driving with excess alcohol and failing to stop and report an accident .
16 Mr Siddle , of Brighton Road , Darlington , admitted driving with excess alcohol and was fined £300 with £25 costs and disqualified from driving for five years .
17 Mr Siddle , of Brighton Road , Darlington , admitted driving with excess alcohol and was fined £300 with £25 costs and disqualified from driving for five years .
18 In a Andean Declaration on the initiative , the participants agreed to work with other Latin American countries and the USA in order to formulate the necessary mechanisms to bring it into existence .
19 This was the third Cabinet change since September [ see pp. 37702-03 ] and was thought to reflect growing tensions within the government as it tried to cope with military setbacks in the current civil war , an economic crisis and mounting social unrest , especially in the capital Mogadishu [ see pp. 37767-68 ] .
20 Irrigation ditches like thin strips of sky ran away through the flat fields where figures bent to work with short hoes .
21 Mosley now tried to collaborate with other anti-war forces , but to little avail although this activity was to prove disastrous for the BUF in 1940 .
22 ‘ Night ’ itself occurs several times in his early books of poetry , as it was bound to do , and its references are of an intimidating sort : ‘ the night never ending ’ ( in ‘ Letter ’ ) , and ‘ the clinic of your thighs against the night ’ ( in Let Us Compare Mythologies ; the latter intimating that other experience of the night which such high thinkers as Bertrand Russell found laden with sexual feelings ) .
23 AA protein was identified by positive staining with anti-AA antibody and sensitivity to KMnO 4 reaction , while AL protein failed to stain with anti-AA , anti-Β 2 -microglobulin , and anti-prealbumin antibodies , and was resistant to KMnO 4 reaction .
24 I made do with peripheral vision , which , after all , is the next best thing .
25 At times the self image presented by these women in their paintings seemed to dovetail with Surrealist expectations .
26 In the later Middle Ages canonists and theologians came to see with increasing clarity some of the objections to this view ; and throughout the Middle Ages Christian money-lenders had their ways of evading it .
27 Mrs Wright put it in the vase that she 'd filled with fresh water .
28 The night seemed filled with erotic dreams .
29 It seemed filled with red jelly .
30 She had , it appeared , been out on the knocker , ‘ like all of you , ladies and gentlemen ’ , an activity which seemed to meet with universal approval .
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