Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The curtains grew greyer , the window panes misty with grime , the doorstep and path were spattered with bird droppings , and the docks and nettles rioted in the borders once tended by Lucy 's brother and kept trim and shipshape with pinks , pansies and geums neatly confined within immaculate box hedges . |
| 2 | Some of them were spattered with blood from the carcasses that hung on a row of meat-hooks nearby . |
| 3 | Stretchers , beds and floors were spattered with blood . |
| 4 | Stretchers , beds and floors were spattered with blood . |
| 5 | Percentages of identity and similarity between proteins in the multiple alignments were calculated with program DISTANCES ( 22 ) . |
| 6 | Other recent applications have included the entire works held in a prestigious library which were infested with booklice . |
| 7 | Perhaps Gladys would join the group of Leicester ladies who were fluttering with anticipation in the back corner . |
| 8 | Third , his anxieties about homosexuality were conjoined with class antagonism . |
| 9 | Since 1987 , when caterers were inundated with information about their legal and moral duty in dealing with HIV-infected staff , the topic has receded from the headlines , although the number of those infected has increased . |
| 10 | Within a short time father and daughter were experimenting with photography . |
| 11 | He did so with the help of the School of Tropical Medicine who were experimenting with treatment by triparsaidide from malarial insects . |
| 12 | Their alchemists were experimenting with gunpowder , their engineers had grasped the basic principles of steam propulsion . |
| 13 | It is more likely that the waters of Marah referred to in Exodus 15:23–25 were contaminated with iron rather than algae as Dr S. Fletcher suggest ( Chem . |
| 14 | Because samples were contaminated with iron , the concentration of this metal was only estimated ( ca 3.5 µM in normal subjects ) , and this secretion could represent a significant proportion of the daily loss of endogenous iron . |
| 15 | Scores of people died … towns in the immediate vicinity were evacuated … but thousands more , living in areas hundreds of miles away , were contaminated with radiation . |
| 16 | Nearly 3,000 cans of meat , originally imported as food aid from Czechoslovakia , were buried by the state authorities after scientific tests discovered that they were contaminated with radioactivity . |
| 17 | His new innovation won approval and orders for the first 10 tankers were placed with NE ship builders . |
| 18 | Early on , working in tandem with John Higgs , he had brought in the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group and the Nature Conservancy Council to look at all the farms on the estate to make sure they were farming with conservation in mind . |
| 19 | Their joints were swollen with rheumatism , their eyes were dimmed with years , to a man they were short of breath and their hands trembled ; one old gentleman believed himself to be again taking part in the French wars , another that he was encamped before Sebastopol . |
| 20 | Then , we were plagued with union disruption of industry , the nationalised industries lost millions and inflation was in double figures . |
| 21 | And the f the the younger apprentices used to plunk on a Monday afternoon and all go along to Street to the this and she says , You did n't need to buy sweeties it was the rails of the gallery were sticking with toffee . |
| 22 | Though all these exploits were undertaken with schoolboy high spirits , no one lost sight of the fact that these swashbuckling deeds of derring-do were a dress rehearsal for the serious havoc the men were to wreak in France . |
| 23 | They had hesitated too long and were regarded with suspicion by those British officials who might have helped them but thought , perhaps , that two people who deliberately set out for Berlin in the last week of August 1939 deserved all that they got . |
| 24 | The old were regarded with respect and age had its special privilege and authority . |
| 25 | The front panels were clad with shiplap , and because only fairly short pieces were needed , I was able to cut away the ends where the shiplap had previously been nailed . |
| 26 | The yolk-yellow walls were layered with seed merchants ' calendars , charts and various photographs of herself in a white coat holding a haltered bull , his forehead dabbed with rosettes , from the days when she bred Herefords . |
| 27 | DeFreitas and Lewis were struggling with muscle stiffness , Smith and Stewart were in the wars from close fielding , and Reeve , picked ahead of the extra batsman Ramprakash for just such a position , was off the field all day with food poisoning . |
| 28 | Eadmer has provided a striking picture of him at the meeting between the pope and William of Warelwast in 1103 , sitting silent while the royal messenger held forth and the pope replied with words which were received with enthusiasm by the bystanders as a declaration that no layman could ever be a doorway into the Lord 's sheepfold . |
| 29 | Even his most generous acts were received with hostility and scorn , and this encouraged a natural predisposition towards tyranny and excess . |
| 30 | Soviet sources referred to a Kuwaiti Minister of State who ‘ called on all Gulf countries to support the Soviet proposal ’ , to Syrian official circles where ‘ the Soviet proposals were received with satisfaction ’ , and to the approval of the head of state and government of the PDRY for ‘ the constructive Soviet initiative ’ . |