Example sentences of "were [verb] with the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The language used by the president was also a shock to many , and the transcripts of the tapes were punctuated with the phrase " expletive deleted " . |
| 2 | In days of yore , such places were spattered with the blood of sacrificial victims to ensure good fortune in battle , and dunters are thought to be the spirits of these unhappy people . |
| 3 | The windows had been broken years ago but the railway company had boarded the frames up with wooden battens which were very effective ; they did however allow a view into the building and although the children could see in they were fascinated with the place and were happy playing in the cutting . |
| 4 | Survival curves of the three histological groups were analysed according to the Kaplan and Meier method and the differences between these curves were calculated with the Mantle test . |
| 5 | The phylogenetic distances of the coxI protein from various eukaryotes were calculated with the program of ( 34 ) and Felsenstein 's ‘ PROTDIST ’ plus ‘ NEIGHBOR ’ ( Felsenstein , unpublished , 35 ) using 16 sequences from species including monocots , dicots , mosses , green algae , fungi and animals . |
| 6 | Raw data were used and geometric means and 95% confidence intervals were calculated with the confidence interval analysis ( CIA ) statistical package . |
| 7 | Chi-squared , Fisher 's exact , Student 's t , and Kruskal-Wallis tests were used to detect significant differences among vaccine groups ; 95% confidence intervals ( CI ) for proportions were calculated on a logit scale and converted to the original scale , and 95% CIs for GMTs were calculated with the method of normal approximation . |
| 8 | The sequences were aligned with the aid of the computer program PILEUP ( UWGCG ) ; boxes enclose conserved residues and the consensus line indicates regions of exact homology . |
| 9 | In the reign of Henry VIII , Italian engineers had recovered Combe Marsh near Greenwich ; and under Elizabeth , Plumstead and Erith marshes by the Thames were drained with the help of Dutch engineers and workmen . |
| 10 | Wives were assisting with the lambing , looking after calves , and most probably administering drugs to young stock when needed . |
| 11 | There was a market down the centre , the stalls facing out , but the air and ground were polluted with the blood , dirt and ordure which ran down from the shambles where the animals were slaughtered and the gore allowed to find its own channel . |
| 12 | ‘ If Chelsea were to proceed with the ground-share as it stands , the legal position of the development would be in doubt . ’ |
| 13 | Further contracts for non-patented equipment were placed with the employer in 1983 and 1985 . |
| 14 | Early this week the boys were placed with the mother in the mother and baby home with the intention of rehabilitation to the mother . |
| 15 | His lips were swollen with the heat , ugly to look at ; the line of burning began on his jaw and his fair neck was wealed and raw . |
| 16 | Artemis had sometimes taken this run when out with her cowardly cousins , although she would always jump the open ditch and hedge while her cousins were fumbling with the gate . |
| 17 | Hercules acquired through Athena an enormous bronze rattle made by Hephaistos , and with this he scared them from their coverts , then shot them down with arrows , the tips of which were poisoned with the blood of the Hydra . |
| 18 | He was in charge of a group of MSC workers who were helping with the work . |
| 19 | But such was the genuine power of his personality that his persistent contention that these fasts were undertaken with the object of assisting his opponents to accept his point of view on its merits always received respectful attention , even as it became more and more evident , with the passage of time , that their success depended in actuality on the personal capital he had built up : he was too special , too revered , and eventually too important in the political consciousness of the Indian masses , to be allowed to die . |
| 20 | As we wandered about , we were treated with the kind of curiosity I imagine one reserves for a chance meeting with people from the planet Zarg . |
| 21 | 145 were treated with the nicotine patches and 144 with placebo patches for 16 weeks . |
| 22 | Throughout the period under discussion , successive government initiatives stimulated vigorous public and professional debate , since even the early tentative moves were treated with the suspicion that they presaged even more decisive government ‘ interference ’ in what was a local or professional matter . |
| 23 | And I was told that he was going to die shortly , and that if I wished , the measures that they were using with the respirator could be removed at my request , because he was in a terminal stage ; it was just a matter of time , and I really felt that I could n't make that decision myself . |
| 24 | Both were stabbed with such violence that ribs were broken with the force of impact . |
| 25 | The members of Gothic Voices ( on this occasion five , of whom two were singing with the group for the first time ) sing these melodies — often complex and wide-ranging — as if they really love them ; sensitive to the ebb and flow of the text , they nurture unexpected melodic twists , always allowing the structure to unfold and mould . |
| 26 | In ritual terms the old agricultural ceremonies were joined with the cult of the dead to form the official Osirian rites and festivals . |
| 27 | The following years of unrelieved deception and destruction were tinged with the happiness of Terry 's apparent conversion to Christ and subsequent church work . |
| 28 | The barren shores were tinged with the red of Aswan granite . |
| 29 | Mr Foster said she was last seen alive at 10.30am on Friday by five people who were registered with the centre . |
| 30 | Up until the beginning of the 1950s , only about a hundred Rottweilers were registered with the AKC . |