Example sentences of "was [vb pp] with [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The Coroner was irritated with the proceedings , and with the transparent fact that not all the information that was held by the men in the court-room had been made available to him .
2 At the time , a trust fund was formed with the aims of establishing a permanent memorial to , and annual scholarships for young people connected with the industry .
3 A meeting was arranged with the gypsies , who were allowed to stay until the 24th July , and it was agreed they would give substantial donations to the parish for damage caused to the trees and grass on the field .
4 In the summer of 1967 , Richard Nixon was received with the honours usually reserved for heads of state when he arrived in Bucharest .
5 The staircase was filled with the sounds of bellowing , screaming and thrashing shadows as Duvall burst back through the door after Barbara .
6 The piazza itself was filled with the stalls of local merchants and shopkeepers .
7 Though the voice was larded with the tones owed to ‘ land in the family ’ , the man himself was decent , polite , unpretentious , and unpatronising throughout the half hour or so that I spent photographing him .
8 Jaggard 's first book was registered with the Stationers ' Company on 4 March 1595 ; he rapidly became a successful businessman .
9 The hillside was riddled with the burrows of Audubon 's shearwaters and the warden pulled out a youngster to show us .
10 A MAN burgled a pub just a few weeks after he was caught with the proceeds from a break in at the same place .
11 Outside the overalls he wore a faded green jacket that was decorated with the remnants of black piping .
12 Whether in terms of German economic and monetary union , the immediate measures that the European Community will be thinking of taking , the transitional arrangements once Germany is unified , and that this was done without any rancour but was done with the feelings of directly elected parliamentarians .
13 So a truce was made with the Spartans ( 451 ) which , as Thucydides describes it ( i.112 ) , need not have been motivated by more than Athens ' commonsense desire to deal with her enemies one by one .
14 But by the mid-nineteenth century the focus of interest in the treatises against masturbation was more clearly young people rather than adults , and there seems little doubt that this was connected with the redefinitions of adolescence .
15 At six weeks old , he was baptized with the names John Cyril at Holy Trinity Church , Rustenburg .
16 If the keyboard was supplied with the keytops engraved or moulded then this would be a very reasonable product .
17 He was buried with the kings of France until Napoleon had the remains removed to the Invalides in 1800 .
18 Thereafter I looked out of all the windows of the snug hostelry , and not finding a satisfactory view , for it now rained in earnest , and it was vain to hope to be able to sketch out of doors , I noticed a new house a short distance from the inn ( it was being prepared for a doctor ) ; was entrusted with the keys , and from one of the front windows looked out on the rainy scene depicted in the sketch of ‘ Garrynahine , Isle of Lewis . ’
19 The Republic of Yemen was welcomed as a member of the United Nations on May 23 , and sent a unified delegation to the Arab League summit in Baghdad [ see pp. 37472-73 ] , where on May 29 it was agreed with the heads of state of the other three Arab Co-operation Council members ( Egypt , Iraq and Jordan ) that the Republic of Yemen would hold the seat formerly held by North Yemen .
20 Its boot was stuffed with the holdalls of the kidnappers and had no room left .
21 In Philadelphia the skyline was emblazoned with the words ‘ Welcome home Joe Cicippio ’ picked out in lights on the skyscrapers — and President George Bush led the welcome .
22 The Swedish victory was forged with a doubles win by Waldner and Appelgren over England 's top pair , Prean and Alan Cooke , and ended with Persson overcoming a gallant Prean 21–18 , 21–13 .
23 The efficacy of the heater probe was assessed with the results obtained at the first attempt .
24 Anselm was now ready for the remaining stages of his promotion : in September he did homage to the king and was invested with the lands of the archbishopric ; on 25 September he was enthroned at Canterbury , and on 4 December 1093 he was consecrated at Canterbury .
25 Again , she was festooned with the contents of the treasure chest — the terrible red leather box .
26 In the 1895 programme , ‘ Musical Gathering ’ was replaced with the words ‘ Musical Festival ’ and though no competitions were then involved , it was billed as the ‘ Holmfirth Feast Sunday Musical Festival ’ .
27 At sea the scene was set with the cutters Vigilant , Swift , Alert and Active patrolling about thirty miles offshore at midnight on September 16th to the west of Plymouth .
28 Round the back , in the patio by the pool , a table was set with the remains of lunch .
29 Jesus had had many interviews with people , we 've looked at some of them over these past few weeks , the time when he met with Nicademus , the religious leader , the time he went out of his way to meet with a woman of Semaria in her dyer need , the other occasion that we looked at er a week or so back when he called Anzakias from that tree of which he was hiding , last week his judge , pilot , but of all those interviews and as many others that we have n't looked at this surely must be one of the strangest as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need , but Jesus your need is as greatest as any body elses , your pain , your suffering , your physical suffering was every bit of great as those around you , why be bothered with others is n't that so often our story , when we are in need we can forget all about other people , it does n't matter there need , its poor me , what about me , what about my need , what about my requirements , what about my suffering , but we see here how Jesus apart from any thing else deals with his own suffering , he deals with it by ministering to the needs of other people , and this surely then must be one of the most strange and one of the most interviews that our lord ever had when he was here on earth , with this dying thief , but he was more than a thief he was a er , he was a re a rebel , he was a terrorist or a freedom fighter depending on which way you wanted to look at it and he was dying for his crimes and he was n't alone because there there was this man we 've been talking about , there was Jesus and there was another one , another criminal on the other side and we find that this is all in keeping with what god had promised , all there in , in line with his prophecy way back in Iziah chapter fifty three , it tells us that he was numbered with the transgressors , that he died with sinful men with , with law breakers and here it is its happening right in front of the , the very eyes of the Jewish leaders and the jewish authorities our lords intention in coming into the world was to save men and women , to seek out and to save sinners , remember thirty odd years previous to this event the word had come , for Mary his mother , to Joseph , we will call his name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins and later on writing to Timothy the apostle Paul in the first chapter of the first book in verse fifteen he says it is a trust worthy statement deserving full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners , this was his purpose , this was his reason for coming into the world , not to be a good man , not to be a , a great leader , not to give us some model that we can , you know , that we can plan our life out and try and live up to his standards , he says I 've come to give my life as a ransom , I have come to save and to seek that which was lost and here in this incident as he himself is dying and is in physical pain and torment he is carrying out this very work , of seeking out and saving of those who will turn to him , those who will put their trust in him , he is saving the lost , and we see in a wonderful how great the compassion of Jesus was and is , in reaching out and rescuing those who are lost , here we see our lord suffering the most terrible agony and yet in the midst of his own sorrow and pain and , and torment he thinks of this dying thief and extends his grace and mercy to him .
30 All there in , in line with his prophecy , way back in Isaiah chapter fifty three , it tells us that he was numbered with the transgressors , that he died with sinful men , with with law breakers , and here it is , it 's happening right in front of th the very eyes of the Jewish leaders and the Jewish authorities .
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