Example sentences of "were [verb] with [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shelves on either side of the window behind the desk were stacked with files , directories and timetables . |
| 2 | The thick fingers were spattered with blobs of bright paint . |
| 3 | At home the television reports were prefaced with warnings about the shocking content to give viewers the option of switching off . |
| 4 | He certainly had a number of absences , but all were explained with notes from his mother or from his doctor . |
| 5 | We set off in an open 15-cwt. truck with an Italian driver who had also been a soldier , two Schmeisser machine pistols and a lot of ammunition ; the mountains at that time were infested with bandits , some of whom were Allied and Axis deserters . |
| 6 | Many major stage routes ran across the moor , connecting London and Windsor with Portsmouth , Southampton , Bath and Bristol , Their passengers braved Hounslow Heath and Maidenhead Thicket , which were infested with highwaymen , before venturing across the moor with its notorious footpads and villains . |
| 7 | There was no such thing as possession ; and even if there was , it would be those lumps of meat in the turret that were infested with demons , not me . |
| 8 | Once again we were inundated with replies , the majority of them correct , to the Curiosities competition featured in the last issue . |
| 9 | When we began the project we were inundated with farmers waving korchanis ( land title deeds ) to the relevant fields . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ We were inundated with calls from members of the public and newsagents desperate for copies . |
| 11 | Officers at Huyton police station were inundated with offers to give Champ a home . |
| 12 | In the old days , child guidance clinics and , indeed , psychoanalytic couches for adult patients were inundated with problems denoting over-control : neurotic inhibition , anxiety , shyness and many other variations on the themes of repression or suppression . |
| 13 | CA European marketing manager , Mike Maunder , says ‘ we were inundated with demands on a worldwide basis to respond to the downsizing issue , and now we 're doing just that . ’ |
| 14 | We were inundated with entries for last issue 's Prize Wordsquare but there was little doubt about the winner at the end of the day . |
| 15 | We er we got very close to beating Bellevue at Bellevue which was okay I mean everybody 's a bit rusty so and we were experimenting with tyres and everything and er it was only a challenge , but it was nice to get the first meeting on the way and er I was very impressed by some of er the team members of what I saw , I knew er team mate Dean Bargger was doing particularly well scoring 11 points and er he 's really a promising er youngster which I think we can get a lot of use out of , and er in general I mean you know Ellis Stevens was doing particularly well as well , so if those two can keep doing well during the season , then okay mine had a few problems , she only scored 3 points , but that was just a one-off so yeah I thing we look quite strong on paper again now . |
| 16 | The new shares were placed with institutions at a discount of 14p to the market price of 174p . |
| 17 | The remaining 18.3% were placed with institutions by the company 's brokers , Barclays de Zoete Wedd and UBS . |
| 18 | The remainder of the meeting was spent in looking at the Grid on which visitors envisaged were placed with Regions for Primary ( ten days to a fortnight ) or Secondary ( 5-7 days ) periods . |
| 19 | It caused a lot of financial pain to a lot of people , and especially to the fast operators in the City who were over-extended with investments in secondary stocks and flashy shell companies . |
| 20 | It was the last but one of the big November parades with the tanks and regiments supervised by generals who were sequinned with medals . |
| 21 | They were meant to coincide so that travellers would have a smooth connection , but they rarely did , and the tea-houses and cheap hotels of Half a were swollen with travellers who invariably had to wait for days . |
| 22 | Railway official Graham Mitchell says the original tunnel builders were plagued with problems including part of the nearby Wesley Chapel sliding away . |
| 23 | They said several men were helping with inquiries . |
| 24 | ‘ The sides of the hoary mountains were clad with spectators , and the glassy surface of the lake was variegated with numbers of pleasure barges , which , tricked out in all the gayest colours , and glittering in the rays of a meridian sun , gave a new appearance to the celebrated beauties of this matchless vale . ’ ’ |
| 25 | Almost everywhere the Japanese soldiers were received with shouts of Banzai : the Japanese made much of the Jayabhaya prophecy and most Indonesians believed that now they would be free . |
| 26 | Once here fears of surgery were discounted and the tumours were treated with drugs . |
| 27 | Once here fears of surgery were discounted and the tumours were treated with drugs . |
| 28 | Patients were treated with antibiotics ( three weeks of amoxycillin 50 mg/kg/24 hours tid followed by two weeks of metronidazole 20 mg/ kg/24 hours tid ) . |
| 29 | In 1989/90 , 99.9 per cent of the 4 million hectares of arable crops in England and Wales were treated with pesticides ; crops were treated two to seven times a season . |
| 30 | Cells were treated with chemicals for 30min at 37 °C or as stated and then incubated for the indicated times before isolation of total RNA . |