Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But from the sides of their mouths projected the glistening tusks of boars , and they were crowned with great , bristling manes of stiff hair that ran down to the base of their spines . |
| 2 | Rocks close under the window were covered with grey and orange lichens ; further out they were encrusted with barnacles and beyond that they were blanketed with brown seaweeds , their slimy fronds gleaming in the sunshine . |
| 3 | They were invested with Japanese decorations and Aung San was given the rank of Major-General . |
| 4 | There they were received with unfailing courtesy and friendliness , and over endless cups of coffee checked out facts , co-ordinated information , and often interviewed Helen Martini or Derek Edwards . |
| 5 | They were compared with 25 patients who had had primary melanomas but had a normal naevus pattern . |
| 6 | Now of course they were drenched with this water sump water coming from this blow hole . |
| 7 | During the Sixties , they were re-equipped with English Electric motors and controllers , thus standardising them with the rest of the fleet . |
| 8 | The band was two accordions and the tunes were chaloupés and javas valsées , penetrating , jerky , fast , and they were danced with extreme devotion and virtuosity . |
| 9 | In particular women discovered they were treated with rare attention and understanding . |
| 10 | Yesterday the rescue team were reunited when they were presented with prestigious commendation certificates from the RSPCA . |
| 11 | The Secretaryship , possibly joint with Club Stewardship , was in the control of Mr. and Mrs. H.J. Young from 1914 to 1921 at which Annual General Meeting they were presented with some silver ‘ for keeping the club going for the last six years ’ . |
| 12 | That said , they were presented with some fairly easy targets , not least from the incredibly untidy lineout ball that the Welsh jumpers were offering poor Robert Jones before it eventually dried up altogether . |
| 13 | Having the responsibility vested in them to provide education for the children in their areas , they were faced with two problems : teachers ' action and withdrawal of goodwill and a central Government elected with the mandate to restrict public spending . |
| 14 | At that time they were faced with legal fees of £3,000 if they sued the surveyor , and the risk of losing this as well if they could not prove the surveyor 's negligence in law . |
| 15 | Along the way Aileen told people all about the charity and the work they do for children with terminal or life threatening illnesses , she also explained just what the charity had done for her family when they were faced with such a situation . |
| 16 | It is more remarkable that the religious houses survived so well than that they were faced with economic problems , and if they were sometimes regarded as grasping landlords , they had little option to be anything else . |
| 17 | And here they were faced with this strange opera , the plot of which they found unattractive , the music very difficult and , indeed , unrecognizable in any way at all as operatic music as they understood it . |
| 18 | But now they were faced with another predicament , how to remove the insects from her body ? |
| 19 | They were piled with corned-beef sandwiches , cheeses , sausage rolls , sliced pickled onions , beetroot , all kinds of pickles , watercress , pig 's pudding and every mouthwatering delicacy you could think of . |
| 20 | If men were beginning to abandon their fear of hell , they were clinging with some tenacity to their hopes of heaven , as we shall see in chapter nine . |
| 21 | There was a set of letters tied up in a bundle with a violet silk ribbon and all written in the same ridiculous and now-faded violet ink ; they were scented with old makeup ( each one bore at the bottom of its last page a lipstick kiss in Nuits de Paris ) and were on expensive and indeed pretentious notepaper as thin as an onion skin . |
| 22 | He 'd even tried his hand at tapping boots , they were done with more enthusiasm than skill , but so far there had been no complaints from the customers . |
| 23 | I watched the crew of a grubby Polish reefer vessel : they were taking pictures of each other against the background of the Gatun Locks ; three hours later , they were gazing with rapt attention at the passing majesty of Culebra ; their cameras were out again for the Pedro Miguel , for the distant flags of the American bases , for the Miraflores Locks , and for the immense red-white-and-blue bandera of the Panama Republic that waved lazily from the summit of Mount Ancon , over the old wooden houses of Panama City . |
| 24 | They were tied with white ribbons , as if , she thought contemptuously , I were a silly young girl . |
| 25 | Gascoigne replied within a minute with a close-range effort and as Lazio piled on the pressure in the second half they were rewarded with five minutes to go when Cristiano Bergodi headed home . |
| 26 | In the event , when insurrections were attempted both in the area of Lang Son , on the Chinese border , in September , and in Cochinchina in November , they were repressed with little difficulty by the French colonial government which still deployed enough effective power to ensure that these were rather rash , forlorn , and certainly premature insurrections . |
| 27 | Well they were ma and they were made with vegetarian suet . |
| 28 | They were speaking with great energy to one another , and laughing . |
| 29 | They were covered with some faded brown material , bits of padding pushing their way through cracks in the armrests and backs . |
| 30 | They were covered with ugly new paperback books and piles of papers . |