Example sentences of "was [vb pp] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A nearby tray was furnished with a mug and a large plate scattered with the crumbs of a large slice of cake . |
| 2 | They had a cavernous basement room which they had painted apricot and white , to cheer it up ; it was furnished with a double divan , two very old arm-chairs with curvaceous rolled arms and head-rests , plum and plushy and dusty , a second-hand stained-oak office desk , where Roland worked , and a newer varnished beech desk , where the typewriter sat . |
| 3 | He was furnished with a big drum and plenty of liquid refreshment meant that before long he not so much marched as fell around the city . |
| 4 | Harriet 's drawing room , the equivalent of Rose Cottage 's humbler living room situated in the front of the building , was furnished with a mixture of modern comfortable easy chairs and several nice old pieces , a Victorian roll-top desk and a little Regency card table among them . |
| 5 | Like Finn , she believed that Lydia had now relented , mistaking her lack of interest for compliance , which led to further misunderstandings at bedtime when Lydia told Finn that he was to sleep in the tiny room where she kept the oil lamps which was furnished with a camp bed and sleeping-bag . |
| 6 | It was furnished with a certain meanness of equipment that made them feel like poor relations . |
| 7 | My imagination was furnished with the passionate martyrdom of the Protestant north . |
| 8 | Since Dornie was now out of the question , I went on to the Kintail Lodge Hotel , where I was admitted and taken up to a single room which , mercifully , was furnished with an electric fire . |
| 9 | It was furnished with an ancient iron bedstead and a wooden table so decrepit that it collapsed as I walked past it . |
| 10 | I took the Klepper to eastern Slovakia in search of interesting , lively touring rivers , right up to the Russian border where further progress in this connection was stopped with a big ‘ Niet ’ . |
| 11 | Vlasman boxed superbly before a capacity crowd and was well on top when his opponent , G Reid ( Wolverhampton ) was stopped with a cut eye in the third . |
| 12 | The Table shows the extent of histological injury , which compares the damage seen immediately after ethanol perfusion was stopped with the damage seen 180 minutes after ethanol . |
| 13 | A dualism of spirit and matter , mind and body , was joined with a powerful determinism or predestinarianism : the Gnostics ( or ‘ people in the know ’ ) are the elect , their souls fragments of the divine , needing liberation from matter and the power of the planets . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Both tubes were introduced via the nose and the position of the tubes was checked with a fluoroscope . |
| 16 | Patient compliance was checked with a diary and by counting the number of returned tablets or by calculating the quantity of amoxicillin suspension used , respectively . |
| 17 | The period of growth under the Fatimids , outside as well as inside Egypt , was checked with the coming of the Crusaders from Europe . |
| 18 | A colonic motility index was calculated with a compterised programme , by measuring the area under the pressure records for the 60 minute period immediately preceding and the 60 minute period immediately after completion of the meal . |
| 19 | The cost of each study was calculated with the advice of a health economist and a hospital finance officer . |
| 20 | The significance of differences was calculated with the generalised Wilcoxon test ( Breslow ) and the generalised Savage test ( Mantel-Cox ) . |
| 21 | A nested variance component model with random effects was calculated with the patient as unit and crypt and biopsy specimens as classification variable . |
| 22 | Gall bladder volume was calculated with the sum of cylinders method . |
| 23 | Nephrogenous cAMP was calculated with the formula of Broadus . |
| 24 | The Japanese advance was halted with the sinking of four Japanese aircraft carriers at the Battle of Midway in June 1942 . |
| 25 | He found that energy fields surrounding salamanders possessed an energy field roughly shaped like the adult animal , and discovered that the field 's electrical axis was aligned with the brain and spinal cord . |
| 26 | Walpole House , which had been erected in the sixteenth century , was altered with a new front elevation , in 1730 , and at about the same time two other houses were knocked into one to become Strawberry House . |
| 27 | Most noticeable change was in the newly-designed tail unit , also a chin radiator was re-introduced larger than that of the earlier Mk 1 , wing planform was altered with a reversion to full span , and a revised rear canopy which covered a cockpit designed to seat two radar operators . |
| 28 | The offeror 's directors subsequently felt unable to continue to recommend the offer to its shareholders because of differences in expectations over the combined group 's financing , and the offer was withdrawn with the consent of the target and the Panel . |
| 29 | We know that the early Church was intoxicated with the experience of the Spirit , and the comparative silence of the Gospels about him is a great credit to their historical trustworthiness in not reading back the conditions of their post resurrection situation into the days of Jesus ' life . |
| 30 | His tan shirt was ironed with the regulation creases ; above one pocket was a set of silver parachute wings , above the other , three rows of coloured medal ribbons . |