Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [vb pp] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No sooner had I thrown it into the toilet than it exploded and I was spattered with the pan 's contents . |
| 2 | In a recent telephone conversation with the CAA I was connected with the department that allocates frequencies for such beacons . |
| 3 | So that ruins your idea that I was hit with the bottle standing beside the bed . |
| 4 | I was rewarded with the discovery that on 21 July 1718 John Hey and Susannah Hepworth were married there . |
| 5 | Having decided to improve our kitchen floor by laying ceramic floor tiles , I was faced with the problem of cutting them to shape around door architraves , etc . |
| 6 | Recently , I was faced with the task of transferring a set of thirty lessons of Britain 's first commercial language course , the Linguaphone French course of 1906 , onto tape . |
| 7 | I was commissioned by Cambridge University Press specifically to base a book on this review and sent a copy of the manuscript to Bernard Carr a year before publication , I was faced with the difficult task of dividing credit between Carr and Rees , and the original authors whose papers they reviewed . |
| 8 | It was as if an addictive drug had been withdrawn and I was faced with the reality of life and had forgotten what to do with it . |
| 9 | With the increasing irritation I was feeling for my lover , I was faced with the realization that the early promise of happiness infinitely extended was dramati-cally receding . |
| 10 | That simply did not happen and I was treated with the utmost courtesy and respect as a representative of a significant Church . |
| 11 | Now this — Ruth Cohen and her stolen file , and I was filled with the same strange , tingling excitement . |
| 12 | Just as I was fascinated with the reduction in inches from my own thighs when I first embarked on my special diet , I was equally interested to hear whether my trial team had benefited in the cellulite department and I included a question to this effect in my questionnaire . |
| 13 | In answer to John Mowforth 's justified moan about Warwick truss rods — I 'm a guitar repairer and I was presented with the exact same problem by one of my clients a few months ago . |
| 14 | I did n't see it but when I was presented with the job advert from a local newspaper the words leapt out at me : ‘ Lecturer : Special needs ’ in the college in the borough where I used to teach before becoming a peripatetic home teacher for pre-school children . |
| 15 | Immediately prior to the entry of the house the plans slightly changed and I was issued with the see shield and my shot gun was given to one of the other officers . |
| 16 | I was tarred with the same brush , to a certain extent . |
| 17 | Cos I used this look , I said that erm I 'd re I had represented his father in an accident case some years before and I was acquainted with the family in a casual way , and I said this may suggest , because he was saying you can make up and you can , this is a bit when you can use your imagination , and I said this may suggest that his father , you know he 'd like , because it the way he says that , I 'd represented his father , I was acquainted , you know maybe that he knows he 's used to that kind of erm behaviour from the family , you know , and he knows what Eddie 's like his fa I do n't know I might be completely wrong but I used my imagination there . |
| 18 | RISC I was designed with the intention to always use high-level languages as these are the languages in greatest commercial use today . |
| 19 | Then I was showered with the realisation that I had spent half a working day thinking these thoughts , during which time , if I had put a foot wrong , I would have immediately proved , to some people 's satisfaction , the innate unsuitability of women for this kind of work ; and that clinched it ; and I wrote the letter and confirmed the complaint . |
| 20 | I grew up close to my godmother so as a child I was inoculated with the theatre . |
| 21 | The excitement of the adventure started to dissipate and I was left with the cold reality of knowing that I was on a train with hardly any money , no ticket and nowhere to go . |
| 22 | All the prize guys who were brilliant at football had disappeared and I was left with the swots . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ The high priest got all the young good-looking ones while I was left with the old fat ones . ’ |
| 24 | I was left with the option of forgetting it , or running with the idea myself . ’ |
| 25 | Overall , though , I was left with the desire to dip my toes in the shallow end of home recording ; it looks fun as well as potentially rewarding . |
| 26 | Along with the bruises , I was left with the problem of what to do in the Grand Final , and eventually came up with the idea of a prop stool which would collapse at the touch of a button and jump up again on its own . |
| 27 | Notwithstanding the welcome opportunity to see the work of this distinguished artist , I was left with the depressing realisation that when one compares the contribution of the women artists with that of the men one sees that the women artist has had to deny herself the luxury of exploring and depicting those ‘ strange developments ’ that exploit humour as well as horror , and which ultimately liberate artist and viewer alike . |
| 28 | I was left with the |
| 29 | I was allowed with the others to change ashtrays , to deliver maple hazelnut praline mousse and to take tea and coffee to the cups , already laid . |
| 30 | Her circulating paracetamol concentration was 943 µmol/l on admission , implying a high risk of fulminant hepatitis even if she was treated with the antioxidant acetylcysteine . |