Example sentences of "was [adj] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worst of all , her self-image was low with the best years of her life fast disappearing , taking her previous good health with it and leaving her with the excess baggage . |
| 2 | They emerged from the trees , and Riven could see that the open space before the river was alive with the great grey-furred beasts and their cold eyes . |
| 3 | By 8:43 the vee formation was complete with the XB-70 in the lead , its movable wing-tips in the mid-down position . |
| 4 | It was evening and the corridor was loud with the homely rattle of teacups when Sister Cooney came to tell him she was dead . |
| 5 | Well , I think George Eliot in particular was discontented with the traditional frames of belief that she encountered in her time . |
| 6 | Such powers were a necessity for advanced warning , as were the short wavelengths for the much greater precision in the location of targets than was possible with the 11-m waves of the coastal radar stations set up during the late 1930s . |
| 7 | Where Benny was dark-haired with the characteristic Ryan dark blue eyes and full-lipped mouth , Garry was the opposite . |
| 8 | The cottage was redolent with the zesty smell of lemon overlaying the more familiar tang of polish , wine and wood smoke . |
| 9 | " The father of the first wife was friendly with the Interior Minister . |
| 10 | His forehead was wet with the cold sweat of horror , and his heart was beating very fast . |
| 11 | Although in English we do on occasions say yes or no and on other occasions yes or no , no speaker of English would say that the meaning of the words ‘ yes ’ and ‘ no ’ was different with the different tones . |
| 12 | She was popular with the other girls at West Heath and enjoyed her years there , but she was never very promising academically , and her reading was almost entirely limited to Barbara Cartland romantic novels . |
| 13 | The name stems from the fact that it was once exported to imperial Russia where it was popular with the Czarist court . |
| 14 | The drama was popular with the complete social spectrum . |
| 15 | No method of raising tax was popular with the 222 respondents . |
| 16 | Melanie already knew I was popular with the fair sex , but when she discovered I was tipped for the top in my career as well she decided it might be a good idea to marry me . ’ |
| 17 | Pre-Raphaelite artists like Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti , whose work was popular with the northern bourgeoisie , juxtaposed images of the middle-class home against a range of social outcasts . |
| 18 | Earl Ferrers , whose closest friends would not call him an intellectual , was unfamiliar with the arcane procedure of the House . |
| 19 | I 'll tell you about Ryan Buck , fifteen years my senior , an ex-felon , an actor , my first , though my mouth was raw with the metallic taste of braces fresh on my teeth , and my features were like crooked , accidental things . |
| 20 | Pains like hot iron poured molten through her legs and her throat was raw with the icy emptiness of the air she was gulping . |
| 21 | I was sad to leave but felt that a turnover of paid staff was unavoidable with the present pay and conditions . |
| 22 | The Old Peacock was jampacked with the new away tops . |
| 23 | But first he analysed what was wrong with the established shops . |
| 24 | Last autumn President Bush said that what was wrong with the Soviet Union was not so much its ideology as the fact that it had had an ideology at all . |
| 25 | What was wrong with the damn thing ? |
| 26 | SERAFIN : What was wrong with the old one ? |
| 27 | For a native speaker it was difficult to express what was wrong with the earlier version , except that it was ‘ foreign ’ . |
| 28 | Stewart Purvis , editor in chief of ITN said he was delighted with the new look . |
| 29 | She was delighted with the high trees , privet and rhododendrons that protected and sheltered the houses . |
| 30 | Jim was delighted with the last race night in November where they raised £1,000 . |