Example sentences of "was [verb] with [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ Inspectors sent to investigate the premises then found it was infested with cockroaches from infant to adult stage , alive and dead , on work surfaces , in the waste bins , around the cooker and behind two storage freezers . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The sides of the hoary mountains were clad with spectators , and the glassy surface of the lake was variegated with numbers of pleasure barges , which , tricked out in all the gayest colours , and glittering in the rays of a meridian sun , gave a new appearance to the celebrated beauties of this matchless vale . ’ ’ |
| 3 | But this is so only where the fence etc. was erected with reference to the highway and would probably not apply where the fence was erected for some other reason ( A.G. v Beynon , [ 1969 ] 2 All ER 263 ) . |
| 4 | The rate of acid secretion was calculated with correction for pyloric losses and duodenogastric reflux by phenol red recovery and sodium measurement respectively . |
| 5 | [ Ca 2 + ] i was calculated with reference to a standard calibration curve relating Ca 2 + concentration to R , which was constructed in vitro using Ca 2 + -EGTA buffers ( Molecular Probes , Eugene , USA ) yielding known Ca 2 + concentrations ( 0–39.8 µM ) and containing 5 µM Fura-2 ( free dye ) . |
| 6 | But if appointment as a lord of session was major patronage at any period in Scotland 's history , there was in the eighteenth century considerable demand for any post which could make use of legal education , for there is some reason to believe that the country was oversupplied with lawyers in view of the desperate efforts which some of them made to obtain a salaried post , no matter how minor . |
| 7 | In the months after legislation was passed , the Home Office was inundated with letters from local police chiefs and magistrates demanding clarification on the extent of the new police powers of prosecution . |
| 8 | As cine-variety rapidly increased in popularity , smaller cinemas presented similar shows and the Tiller office was inundated with bookings for their troupes . |
| 9 | The programme has broken new ground for Asian actors , the crew was inundated with requests from young Asian actors for parts . |
| 10 | The company said it was inundated with bids for 700 construction and 130 longer-term drilling jobs . |
| 11 | The company said it was inundated with bids for the 700 construction and 130 longer-term drilling jobs on offer . |
| 12 | Almost as soon as he commenced taking evidence , Beveridge was inundated with memoranda on the needs of the elderly . |
| 13 | THE Evening News was inundated with entries for a Thunderbirds competition to build the best Tracy Island after it was shown on Blue Peter . |
| 14 | Though it was pissing with rain in Spain . |
| 15 | From this joke the seed began to germinate and the whole idea of Norseman Park was formed with CF–DRD as the centre-piece of the whole complex . |
| 16 | She had also been completely in love with Jamie , but of course he had rejected her ; there was no room in his life for love — not while he was consumed with hatred for his brother Charles . |
| 17 | He was consumed with desire for the possession to come and whenever he could he tried to add to the 45/ in the Post Office Savings Bank so that they could spend some time away together with Dad Uzzell . |
| 18 | WHATEVER ELSE it brings , April 9 marks the anniversary of the death of Francis Bacon , the philosopher who perished in 1626 from bronchitis contracted in Highgate while he was experimenting with ways of preserving chickens in snow . |
| 19 | To judge from Maud 's letters — as we have to , since most of Yeats 's were destroyed — the relationship thereafter was tinged with resignation on both sides , with Yeats proposing marriage every so often but not being greatly upset when he was once again turned down . |
| 20 | His voice moved up a register , from baritone to tenor , and it was tinged with irritation for the first time that evening . |
| 21 | His relief was tinged with sadness at the defeat of his close colleague and Tory party chairman , Mr Chris Patten , who became the first Cabinet Minister since 1979 to lose his seat . |
| 22 | But New Zealand 's delight was tinged with sadness after opener John Wright 's announced his retirement . |
| 23 | Carrington , when they landed , was tinged with blue at his extremities , and could not hear his own teeth chattering because of the engine-thunder that still rang inside his skull . |
| 24 | But Mrs Strachan 's evidence was treated with disdain by council solicitor , Mr Richard Humphreys . |
| 25 | Initially he was treated with ganciclovir for 3 months , which was later changed to foscarnet for lack of response and presumed resistance . |
| 26 | During his lifetime the suggestion was treated with hostility in Australia but migration schemes were under way by the 1920s . |
| 27 | She seemed unable to appreciate the fact that Henry himself was one of a threatened species , even though that threat was treated with contempt by most ecologists and nearly all women . |
| 28 | She was wrung with pity for her aunt , whose silence was so haunted when her brothers were not there . |
| 29 | But Dustin was racked with doubts about himself and the part . |
| 30 | The High Street was bedecked with strings of coloured light bulbs and skeletal Christmas trees which would spring to life at dusk . |