Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] with [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Acres of newsprint and countless hours of air time became filled with elucidations on the new technology , some of them distinctly bizarre .
2 The cave was formed some time during the early part of the Pleistocene , over one million years ago , and it became filled with sediment during the middle Pleistocene approximately 350 to 400 thousand years ago .
3 She stared down at the frothing white surf that slid past the ship 's side and fell into a reverie in which imaginings of her future life became mixed with memories of past days at Ballingolin .
4 Because of this he often failed to bring about cures and eventually became disillusioned with hypnosis as a form of therapy .
5 Many clients became disillusioned with search in the 1970s , receiving some indifferent service and assuming that all headhunters were the same ; this view is rapidly disappearing in the 1980s , although many search practices current during the Big Bang gave search a bad name , such as wholesale movement of trading and broking teams , for instance .
6 The king also had power when he died and therefore the Ba became connected with death in a somewhat different form and was linked with private individuals form the end of the Old Kingdom .
7 The island aromas also came tinged with scents of the dark unconscious .
8 They came armed with batteries of attorneys , British and American , merchant bank and investment bank advisers and the way in which their participation developed was immensely thorough .
9 They 'd played with matches in their room , lighting a fire in the garden of their dolls ' house .
10 During the 8 mmol/l hyperglycaemia the integrated PP secretion in response to CCK-33 was significantly ( p<0.05 ) reduced compared with normoglycaemia during infusion of 0.25 and 0.5 IDU kg - 1 .
11 She recalled that he 'd spoken with passion about his family …
12 Rune had brought her to the home he 'd shared with Lotta for — how long ?
13 During this time he 'd settled with ease into the household , which had surprised the girls who looked after him ; they had anticipated difficulty .
14 I 'd worked with Eddie on a Boozebuster before .
15 Actress Jeananne Crowley on Carlton Television boss Michael Green I CHEERED like mad when a couple of papers got clobbered with damages of half a million pounds .
16 Richard felt overwhelmed with affection for her .
17 He wrote a pathetic letter to his lord , describing his condition in prison where he lay bound with fetters of iron and beseeching aid from the Earl of March to secure his deliverance .
18 My trawl of invisibility in the Art Index has confirmed that until women became identified with feminism in the early 1970s they were as neutralised as their practice .
19 Adopting the theology of liberation , the main body of the Salvadorean church therefore became identified with opposition to the regimes in power during the 1970s .
20 In contrast , many allografts became infected with HBV without developing significant tissue injury .
21 Sometimes the workmanship in these archaic stone artefacts was very fine , and it is possible that they were used as insignia of rank , in much the same way as stone maces in the Wessex Culture in southern England ; if so , it is curious that the same obsolete tool became associated with rank in two cultures that were geographically so widely separated .
22 The wall , the ditch , the countryside , the camps , the immobile guns and their gunners appeared painted with light on stark vellum .
23 Theda had gazed with awe upon the dish of ham and eggs , the lavishly buttered bread and the pot of tea , bereft of words .
24 This was the final stage of a two-year investigation into the actions of five senators , all but one of them Democrats , who had intervened with regulators on Keating 's behalf at a time when he contributed some $1,300,000 to their campaigns and political causes .
25 The prime target of their discontent was Serrano , for he had intervened with Franco in an attempt to obtain clemency for the Falangists involved in what Galarza and Varela were presenting as an attack on the Army as an institution .
26 He also claimed that staff aides to the then Vice-President Bush had intervened with HUD in 1985 in order to win a $500,000 grant for a Kansas City developer , Hector Barreto , a longtime supporter of Bush .
27 In making his decision , he said , he had consulted with representatives from " Jordan , Yemen , Palestine , Sudan and the Arab Maghreb " and had been " encouraged " by " the decision of the Democratic Party in the US Senate and the European Parliament 's invitation to our Foreign Minister for dialogue " .
28 I suggested to Wilson that there had to be a short cooling-off period , after which Max Aitken would be a suitable person to go to Rhodesia as an unofficial ambassador , since in the war he had flown with Smith in the RAF and they had become good friends .
29 It was a picture I had examined with attention through many an hour of boring burble , raucous revivalist song and whining , wheezing harmonium .
30 When Harriet had telephoned with news of the birth , Liza 's mother-in-law had quickly passed her over to her husband .
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