Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The days and nights that followed this procession became filled with the ghostly rhythms of the Ma'badong dance a cumulative mantric tone intended to induce altered states , which most successfully we found , interfered with our capacity to keep a grip on the job of filming . |
| 2 | She shivered again and then again until somehow it became impossible to stop and her whole body became racked with the uncontrollable involuntary movements . |
| 3 | One day , to escape heavy rain he wandered into a tavern called the ‘ Spotted Dog ’ which was kept by Joe Parrish , a veteran fighter , who became impressed with the young lad — then aged 16 — and began to teach him the science of the ring . |
| 4 | It was while travelling around the world for the UN that she first became impressed with the simple forms of cosmetics made from natural ingredients used by remote communities . |
| 5 | Dositej entered the Hopovo monastery in the Fruška Gora at the age of sixteen , but he soon became disillusioned with the restricted life of a monk and two years later he escaped . |
| 6 | Beginning with the organisation of bible classes in the rural communities while he was still a student at Cumberland University , he became disillusioned with the apparent inability of the current educational system to tackle adequately the problems of social and economic mis-development in Appalachia . |
| 7 | As an assistant in early 1643 to John Rushworth [ q.v. ] , clerk-assistant of the House of Commons , Mabbott became connected with the parliamentary army secretariat and acted as agent for the army , mainly in London , throughout the civil war and interregnum . |
| 8 | Through a project begun by West Yorkshire Archaeological Unit , Tony became connected with the Holy Wells Research and Preservation Group , and from there came the inspiration to revive a local tradition he had heard tales about since his childhood . |
| 9 | I 'd arranged with the local flying club to go up in a small ‘ Cub ’ training aircraft , which is well-suited for aerial photography as it has a very slow cruising speed . |
| 10 | The accused had fixed a new glass fibre wing on his car the day after the accident , and he said he could n't remember what he 'd done with the old one . |
| 11 | This made me aware of how badly I 'd done with the domestic arrangements . |
| 12 | He pointed out that if the regional companies signed new contracts with National Power and PowerGen , as he had permitted , 41 per cent of their requirements would be met by coal-fired stations , compared compared with the 17 per cent generated by independent gas-fired producers . |
| 13 | Also , I felt I 'd dealt with the first layer and although I was well aware that there were subsequent layers , I thought I would deal with them at some later date . |
| 14 | The principal transitions from one phase of people 's life to another were thought of as crises and as a result the community to which they belonged assisted with the appropriate rituals . |
| 15 | The legal process which followed ended with the Supreme Court 's decision on July 17 . |
| 16 | These were the gig mills , which raised the nap on the cloth prior to shearing and vastly shortened the time needed compared with the old hand method , and shearing frames , which by mechanically aligning the heavy forty-pound shears reduced the time taken to a quarter . |
| 17 | It became entwined with the separate dispute with ASLEF over flexible rostering , which the board had announced would be introduced from July with or without agreement . |
| 18 | It was a time when he was immensely drawn to panache , and he felt done with the prim and the hangdog for good . |
| 19 | It was only when I actually visited the Broads that I became infected with the same enthusiasm which led Ransome to write the books . |
| 20 | He was used to sailing with the best and got exasperated with the Soviet crew . |
| 21 | Much in demand for stage and film productions , he became associated with the early musicals of Lloyd Webber and his then partner Tim Rice in the 1970s . |
| 22 | The years 1806–7 , however , marked the triumph of social as well as political respectability as more socially prominent names became associated with the African Institution and antislavery more generally . |
| 23 | During that period the great schism within Islam between sunni and shi'ite occurred , in which Egypt became associated with the former , as it has remained ever since . |
| 24 | Yet Walker also knew that railways were no longer omnipotent ; he became associated with the Great Western Railway in running a coach service to the west and acquired for his company a financial interest in Imperial Airways . |
| 25 | These incursions were , however , small-scale and localised compared with the first major upheaval in the life of Tudor Sussex , the Reformation . |
| 26 | With these resignations by Mahmut Alinak and Mahmut Uyanik the SHP now contributed only 70 seats to the ruling coalition which it had formed with the True Path Party ( DYP ) [ see also pp. 38739 ; 38873 ] . |
| 27 | So whereas he had treated with the pro-English party in Scotland in the first half of 1543 , in 1544 it was the pro-French faction which was uppermost in his mind . |
| 28 | The practical reason was that because we had collaborated with the Russian museums for earlier exhibitions we were able to make an agreement and bring together our collections with theirs . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , very serious problems had developed with the National Coal Board . |
| 30 | Paisley had supported him again once he had broken with the Official Unionists . |