Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His knee-length red woollen tunic was lavishly trimmed with fur , and the chain of solid metal links about his neck gleamed with the sheen of precious gold . |
| 2 | Mrs Ainsworth 's home was lavishly decorated with tinsel and holly , rows of drinks stood on the sideboard and the rich aroma of turkey and sage and onion sag wafted from the kitchen . |
| 3 | The crisis , which mostly concerned urban strays , was successfully met with poison baiting , but this was not without environmental cost . |
| 4 | He was eventually rewarded with work on a prestigious construction project in New Guinea . |
| 5 | As I shall explain in the next section , this earlier privileging of intellect was intimately connected with resistance to nominalism , and , in the seventeenth century nominalism triumphed . |
| 6 | His face , Stephen noticed , was badly marked with acne as if he were still in his teens , though he was years older than that . |
| 7 | Because Key believed that motherhood brought women their greatest fulfilment , her work was widely quoted with approval , although her defence of ‘ bachelor motherhood ’ for the unfortunate ‘ surplus ’ women achieved a notoriety similar to Grant Allen 's apparent advocacy of ‘ free love ’ in The Woman Who Did . |
| 8 | It had seemed to him a natural extension of his duties , and somehow consistent with Islamic notions of hospitality , to assume responsibility for seeing that Owen was properly supplied with coffee . |
| 9 | It was sparsely covered with acacia scrub , interspersed with thickets of sansevieria with formidable bayonet-like leaves . |
| 10 | The study was somewhat cluttered with furniture and around the walls were various glass cases in which Eugénie kept her treasured possessions . |
| 11 | It was thickly covered with milk chocolate , which increased the sickly sweetness of the ice-cream to a nauseous intensity . |
| 12 | He was in a blue uniform coat that was thickly encrusted with gold loops and edged with black astrakhan fur . |
| 13 | When he came back , his face was so strained with worry that I felt the sting of another guilt , and I smiled properly ( having just finished with a not-too-terrible pain ) and put out my hand to him to show him I was better . |
| 14 | Some ore was so intermixed with gangue however , that the concentration by hand was extremely laborious and the mill must have been needed for a long time . |
| 15 | He had been told very little , and even that he had difficulty in remembering because he was so filled with excitement and anticipation . |
| 16 | Evelyn 's voice was so filled with despair that Kate felt rage again . |
| 17 | Only now mattered , for the present moment was so filled with beauty that it smothered the effort of climbing , and with every gasp of breath came a physical response to the glory of the day . |
| 18 | All through his life , though Ken could be austere and stubborn to a point which provoked exasperation , his evident holiness was so blended with cheerfulness that he seldom lost the admiration and affection of his contemporaries . |
| 19 | Sinar Surya carried only an antique compass whose oil was so clouded with age that we could hardly read the rose . |
| 20 | Last time I went to the hairdresser 's I was so crippled with period pains I drank three instant g & t's on the bus . |
| 21 | Standing at last in Woodborough parish church — dedicated to St Paul — watching her mother 's coffin being lowered on to trestles below the chancel steps , Isobel was so riven with thankfulness she could hardly keep upright . |
| 22 | … to see Mr. Wats , keeper of the Apothecaries Garden of simples at Chelsey ; where there is a collection of innumerable rarities of that sort : Particularly , besids many rare annuals the Tree bearing the Jesuits bark , which had don such cures in quartans : & what was very ingenious the subterranean heate , conveyed by a stove under the Conserveatory , which was all Vaulted with brick ; so as he leaves the doores & windowes open in the hard(e)st frosts , secluding onely the snow , & c . |
| 23 | It was all to do with instinct , unsullied intelligence and an innate ability to discount the higher promptings of reason . |
| 24 | Director Peter Smallridge claims this was less to do with ideology and more for the benefit of service users . |
| 25 | During the afternoon and evening the subject was less troubled with sleepiness . |
| 26 | The floor was entirely covered with sheet lead , which was protected from wear by oak slats , and the sides , to a height of 3ft were sheathed with stout zinc sheets . |
| 27 | Captivated by Christ and his love she ‘ was greatly moved with love for my fellow Christians that they might know and see what I was seeing , for I wanted to cheer them too ’ . |
| 28 | This was naturally received with enthusiasm and she was warmly welcomed within the fold of the BDDA . |
| 29 | A weak positive association was only demonstrated with serum triglyceride , VLDL-triglyceride and LDL in females . |
| 30 | Ward 's face was suddenly contorted with anger . |