Example sentences of "was [verb] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For those who stayed with the film , like Preston , it turned out that the underground was infested with such creatures . |
| 2 | However , after completing the purchase , they were horrified to find that the cottage was infested with dry rot — this cost them £5,000 to deal with . |
| 3 | When I was heavily pregnant we lived in one room that was infested with red ants . |
| 4 | Jack Backhouse , a jet lad scarcely in his teens , was drunk and smashed up his father 's house A letter in 1853 claimed Whitby was infested with thieving ‘ city arabs , cast out of their homes , orphans by day and burthens by night ’ . ’ |
| 5 | The pictures showed various angles of a small room that was furnished with little more than a big couch , a hi-fi and a table of drinks . |
| 6 | It also had a smoking room , which was furnished with one electric light and pressurised to prevent hydrogen seeping in . |
| 7 | The ‘ Ritz Bedroom ’ , for example , ‘ so named by the Ashleys because the bath in the adjoining bathroom was exactly like those in their favourite hotel , the Paris Ritz ’ , was furnished with some choice pieces of Louis XV vintage . |
| 8 | Ireland 's representation has already been halved due to first round defeats by Antrim 's Mark Winters and Ardoyne 's Eamon Magee who was stopped with 40 seconds to go in the final round . |
| 9 | Consequently , it was struggling with outdated equipment and facilities . |
| 10 | Casts of these dinosaurs were sent to other museums around the world ; the industrialist Andrew Carnegie presented a cast of the gigantic Diplodocus to the Natural History Museum in London , where it was erected with great ceremony in 1905 . |
| 11 | Reproducibility was checked with six biopsy specimens from adjacent sites in a single patient and coefficient of variation was found to be 12% for butyrate metabolism expressed per µg protein per hour and 18% for glutamine metabolism . |
| 12 | The state of the fundic wrap was checked with retroflexed endoscope . |
| 13 | The arterial-alveolar oxygen tension ratio was calculated with each arterial blood gas analysis over the first day . |
| 14 | The supernatant containing the free leucine was neutralised with 1 M KOH at 4°C and centrifuged to remove excess KClO 4 . |
| 15 | Her bright hair was hidden under a sunhat , and she was disguised with dark glasses , but no one had shown the slightest interest in her . |
| 16 | For most of his career after discovering the similia principle , he was inundated with more patients than the average practitioner could have coped with . |
| 17 | I was inundated with photocopied documents and background papers . |
| 18 | Dr Malcolm Anderson , one of the researchers from University Hospital , Nottingham , said the screening service was inundated with large numbers of mildly abnormal smear results . |
| 19 | It was super-saturated with virtual existence . |
| 20 | My friend Lindsey said I was consumed with earthy desires and unable to reach the higher planes . |
| 21 | Dawdling down to the village on this spurious errand , Alexandra was consumed with impatient curiosity . |
| 22 | His stereotyped image of the single missionary lady was overturned with one stupendous " Wow " once he had met the outgoing Australian with the warm smile and alert interest in everything around her . |
| 23 | Alex Bryson , 63 , was dismissed with four colleagues for drinking on duty . |
| 24 | My request was dismissed with some amusement by my parents who added that I should have more sense than to believe in all that mumbo-jumbo . |
| 25 | Marsh was dismissed with three minutes to go for a late challenge on Dimitr Radchenko , scorer of Spartak 's first goal , in their 2–0 success which made it 6–2 on aggregate . |
| 26 | Creffield was suspended on full pay until his conviction , whereupon he was dismissed with three months ‘ notice . |
| 27 | The texture of his voice was unfamiliar , and his face , when Eochaid glanced up , was drained with some sort of force which Eochaid suddenly saw was consuming anger . |
| 28 | Roentgen was experimenting with electrical discharges in evacuated tubes when he observed the emission of rays which made nearby materials fluoresce , i.e. emit light when the rays fell upon them . |
| 29 | Meanwhile Palmer was experimenting with different electrolytes-acids and alkalis that carry the current through the cell — including sodium hydroxide , sulphuric acid and traces of other impurities in attempts to mimic the elemental make-up of seawater in the presence of minerals . |
| 30 | Emma was experimenting with atonal motifs on a xylophone and Vicky had been given a doll but had pulled the arm off . |