Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been filled with school milk and cod-liver oil and orange juice , but only the few scheme-housing children had bathrooms . |
| 2 | They 'd been issued with Sterling by Lloyds Bank . |
| 3 | MANCHESTER UNITED were left with egg on their faces yesterday after another abortive effort to land Sheffield Wednesday striker David Hirst . |
| 4 | The teeth it exposed were greened with mould , and sharpened . |
| 5 | Opposition crumbled before him and the path he followed was strewn with gold . |
| 6 | The aggregates formed were fixed with formol and the results expressed as the percentage of platelets aggregated compared to a reference platelet count performed before the agitation . |
| 7 | His answering expression was unreadable , but his voice when he answered was laden with contempt . |
| 8 | All said they had been inundated with telephone calls from eager fans . |
| 9 | Mr Suzuki 's flourishes merely echoed and embellished words that had been uttered with signal prescience almost exactly eighty years before , by John Hay . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | True , at the start he had been filled with remorse . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | His eyes , which , moments earlier , had been filled with fear and horror , were now clear , almost calm . |
| 16 | The people behind the BBC soap opera Eldorado had been filled with fear and trepidation . |
| 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 | This had been cooked with mint , lime and enough coriander to give a sneaky kung fu blow in the back of one 's throat . |
| 19 | Whit- or white-leather was leather that had been dressed with alum , and it was often horse-leather . |
| 20 | His face had gone very red and looked as if it had been sprayed with water . |
| 21 | Hopkins refers to a German seamen 's manifesto of March 1917 , " with its impudent assertion that , apart from a few " isolated mistakes " U-boat warfare had been conducted with respect for human and humane principles " . |
| 22 | Willaert ( see below , p. 230 ) had no difficulty in arranging 22 of Verdelot 's four-part madrigals for voice and lute ( Intavolatura de li madrigali de Verdelotto , Venice , 1536 ) as had been done with frottole and Parisian chansons . |
| 23 | This discrepancy could be explained if North America and Europe had been moving with respect to each other as well as with respect to the magnetic pole . |
| 24 | The various Lives had been written from a variety of standpoints , but he observed that the best of them had been inspired with hate — hate , not of Jesus , but of the ‘ Christ of dogma ’ . |
| 25 | Night patrols over the front sometimes had in sight the lights both of their own base and of enemy airhelds , glowing in the distance as if the soil had been smeared with phosphorus . |
| 26 | In this case , straight sections of Kopex connectors were pushed into Acorn connectors after the pipe ends had been smeared with lubricant . |
| 27 | Rostov saw that his hair had been drawn back into a neat queue which had been tied with ribbon then folded decoratively forward across the top of his head . |
| 28 | The chocolates had been laced with arsenic too . |
| 29 | Next the murdering puffs of explosive charge and ragged steel fragments dissolved into weak smoke and the plane was butting through the piece of sky which , seconds before , had been laced with violence ; and meanwhile , other shell bursts erupted just as unpredictably ahead , and behind , and below . |
| 30 | In 1921 , for example , the boys section at Bradford Park Avenue was closed down for three months after the referee had been pelted with rubbish , and in the early 1920s the fierce North London rivalries between Arsenal and Spurs flared into open street battles in which some of the more zealous fans were armed with iron bars and knives . |