Example sentences of "was [verb] with some " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Despite this , however , he was treated with some suspicion by Parliament , who restricted his ability to raise taxes to pay for army or navy forces , so he turned to Louis XIV of France , who secretly made funds available so as to improve the failing status of the Roman Catholic Church in England , where the Church of England virtually excluded all ‘ dissenters ’ , which included Roman Catholics . |
| 5 | That little knife slashed sharply , circumcising the very tip of the digit , and even before the Larramen cells could clot — or perhaps because the blade was treated with some special anti-coagulant — a sprinkling of bright blood fell like rubies from each fingertip to mingle in the chalice . |
| 6 | When the war broke out the queen , who was Charles 's sister , was treated with some suspicion : her lands were seized and her servants sent to various religious houses throughout the country . |
| 7 | Nicholson , at this point , was in the news through the acclaim being bestowed upon him for Easy Rider , and his first taste of stardom was received with some apprehension ; his on-screen connections with marijuana and LSD also attracted a great deal of media coverage ; serious press interviews , with him personally as the focus and centre of attention , were also unfamiliar territory into which he ventured nervously , almost unsure of what he was going to say and how he was going to express his feelings and opinions ; he had plenty , and serious ones at that . |
| 8 | Watanabe 's appointment as Foreign Minister was received with some surprise in the USA , which had protested in 1988 over his allegedly racist remarks about the country 's black population . |
| 9 | Someone suggested they should all bathe in champagne beforehand and the bath was filled with some cheap bubbly . |
| 10 | Helen stood over her bleeding bite-size chunks of meat in a state of agitation ; annoyance with Edward was fused with some nameless , indefinable anxiety . |
| 11 | In one of those asides , Johnson with the eye of a painter gives the last glimpse of these high ways in 1773 : ‘ Once we saw a corn field , in which a lady was walking with some gentlemen … ’ |
| 12 | The task of establishing and encouraging national cultural activities was pursued with some vigour by the new ministry . |
| 13 | In a clockwise direction from the top left of the picture , the card next to the clock was decorated with some bramble leaves , grass and wild roses . |
| 14 | The introduction of biguanides was met with some scepticism of their efficacy and fears about the possibility of precipitating lactic acidosis . |
| 15 | On Jan. 6 , 1990 , Chevènement announced a re-evaluation of military pay which proposed a series of premiums and indemnities , but was met with some disappointment and scepticism by the military which was increasingly critical of the discrepancy between the growth in spending on military material and that on personnel . |
| 16 | What she had to say was said with some surprise as well . |
| 17 | Every hour on the hour the glass case was opened with some ceremony , and the wee man would sign copies of his autobiography . |
| 18 | In 1945 , the Bank of England was nationalised with some Conservative support because of the way it had handled the depression . |
| 19 | On the Cambrian lines , a basic diet of 156 's and 155's was promised with some 153 's being used on the Cambrian Coast line services . |
| 20 | Elliott 's predicament was watched with some interest from the houseboat Duende . |
| 21 | In her innocence Myra had complied with his wish and was rewarded with some sweets . |
| 22 | John St.Clair spent hours prospecting for gold , and was rewarded with some bright literary nuggets . |
| 23 | The whole question of the ‘ negative image ’ of West Belfast was raised with some arguing that this image would need to be tackled as a prerequisite to further economic development in the area . |
| 24 | We tracked down Ranteallo in the most elegant of these structures , which he was sharing with some thirty family members , guests , and slaves . |
| 25 | It went on to sell four million copies around the world , the lion 's share , it was noted with some satisfaction within Virgin , in territories where Virgin had their own label . |
| 26 | The first thing was to find a school for you three — for six months you had had no teaching , except what I could give you , and then kind Miss Budden , the headmistress at Auckland House school , Simla , said she could take you if I could come too and help her nurse about twenty children down with measles in the san. , because Matron was coping with some children with suspected diphtheria in another block . |
| 27 | It was greeted with some fury : ‘ It 's the beginning of a war , ’ said Fernand Daoust of the Quebec Federation of Labour . |
| 28 | Nor is it surprising that a discussion paper that extolled counselling while assuming its efficacy was greeted with some hostility . |
| 29 | The MRO was greeted with some initial suspicion , understandably . |
| 30 | The project was greeted with some antagonism among his Virgin colleagues . |