Example sentences of "was [verb] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was furnished with a certain meanness of equipment that made them feel like poor relations . |
| 2 | They had a cavernous basement room which they had painted apricot and white , to cheer it up ; it was furnished with a double divan , two very old arm-chairs with curvaceous rolled arms and head-rests , plum and plushy and dusty , a second-hand stained-oak office desk , where Roland worked , and a newer varnished beech desk , where the typewriter sat . |
| 3 | He was furnished with a big drum and plenty of liquid refreshment meant that before long he not so much marched as fell around the city . |
| 4 | My imagination was furnished with the passionate martyrdom of the Protestant north . |
| 5 | It was furnished with an ancient iron bedstead and a wooden table so decrepit that it collapsed as I walked past it . |
| 6 | Since Dornie was now out of the question , I went on to the Kintail Lodge Hotel , where I was admitted and taken up to a single room which , mercifully , was furnished with an electric fire . |
| 7 | I took the Klepper to eastern Slovakia in search of interesting , lively touring rivers , right up to the Russian border where further progress in this connection was stopped with a big ‘ Niet ’ . |
| 8 | Vlasman boxed superbly before a capacity crowd and was well on top when his opponent , G Reid ( Wolverhampton ) was stopped with a cut eye in the third . |
| 9 | A dualism of spirit and matter , mind and body , was joined with a powerful determinism or predestinarianism : the Gnostics ( or ‘ people in the know ’ ) are the elect , their souls fragments of the divine , needing liberation from matter and the power of the planets . |
| 10 | As Laura Davies was struggling with a right hand injured in a cricketing accident on the eve of the tournament , registering a 79 in the first round , Pam Wright was putting together the most meticulous of level-par 73s . |
| 11 | The animal was struggling with a loose shoe and was in no mood to break into a trot . |
| 12 | Her peer group was struggling with the male menopause , of course , but the sting of rejection had been no less sharp . |
| 13 | A colonic motility index was calculated with a compterised programme , by measuring the area under the pressure records for the 60 minute period immediately preceding and the 60 minute period immediately after completion of the meal . |
| 14 | The significance of differences was calculated with the generalised Wilcoxon test ( Breslow ) and the generalised Savage test ( Mantel-Cox ) . |
| 15 | Walpole House , which had been erected in the sixteenth century , was altered with a new front elevation , in 1730 , and at about the same time two other houses were knocked into one to become Strawberry House . |
| 16 | Love notes written by the accused to Miss Whitehead were also found which showed how he was consumed with a jealous sexual obsession after she had refused to sleep with him , the court heard . |
| 17 | He never knew whether the gendarme understood him or not but felt relief flood over him when he was dismissed with a curt wave of the hand . |
| 18 | Percy Pilcher , a naval architect at Glasgow University was experimenting with a powered glider and , but for the tragic accident that ended his life , would have entered the history books as the first man to fly an engine-driven aircraft . |
| 19 | … they differed in the colour of their skin from all the people of our habitable world , for the whole surface of their skin was tinged With a green colour . |
| 20 | The familiar ride past the saluting gateman , past the lemon groves and the sharp roundabout to the little dirt road that was Santa Barbara 's main street , was tinged with an overwhelming gloom in spite of its beauty . |
| 21 | Using this symptom with those of the flushes which were worse at night and aversion to anything around the neck the remedy Lachesis LM1 was prescribed with an immediate improvement generally and in symptoms . |
| 22 | Sir Peter acknowledged the part that the Association played in the RAF family , with its support of members past and present which was highlighted with the continued development of Eagle Lodges . |
| 23 | The weakness of the country 's political parties — traditionally they tended to be forged around individuals and networks of patronage rather than clear ideological convictions , a tendency massively accentuated during the Marcos years — was highlighted with the approaching election in the form of splits , internal conflicts and unanticipated alliances . |
| 24 | I 've always been amazed , and continue to be amazed , by the years in which the composer was treated with a certain amount of contempt simply out of jealousy , because he had this marvellous gift for a singable tune . ’ |
| 25 | Death was treated with a certain deference , although the passing of a sitting MP was regarded either as a blessing in disguise ( ‘ never liked him ’ ) or , if the Party was unpopular , as a confounded nuisance , a by-election inevitably leading to exposure , expense and humiliating defeat . |
| 26 | This happened to a man with eczema and asthma who was treated with a low potency of sulphur which improved both symptoms . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | During his stay in Istanbul he was treated with the greatest respect by his former students , among whom are mentioned three important muderrises of the city , two from the Sahn and one from the Murad Pasa medrese . |
| 29 | That simply did not happen and I was treated with the utmost courtesy and respect as a representative of a significant Church . |
| 30 | On the racecourse , in Portman Square , he was treated with the wary politeness reserved for outsiders . |