Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cov 's attacks were generally snuffed out with a solid offiside trap , and in the event of that not working , Fairclough being on hand to snuff out any breakthroughs . |
| 2 | Cutting was mostly carried out with a scythe although a few were able to hire machinery for the purpose . |
| 3 | This was all washed down with a bottle of red wine . |
| 4 | Within fifty years the area was entirely built over with a population of nearly 70,000 . |
| 5 | Marie , sick and trembling , overwhelmed with fear and guilt at her own actions , was already kneeling down with a dustpan and brush , sweeping up the broken glass from the tomato-sauce bottle that had been on the table . |
| 6 | I was just walking around with a huge grin on my face . |
| 7 | He had twice been badly wounded and was still hobbling around with a stick when he was given command of Fort Vaux , the smallest of the forts ringing Verdun but crucial to the defence of the important Fort Souville . |
| 8 | She had been packed for a day or so , but had realized as she took a last look round that her fridge was still switched on with a bottle of milk inside . |
| 9 | He packs his girlfriend in then went with Jane , but he was still going out with a girlfriend if you know what I mean . |
| 10 | A Parliamentary and Local Government Advisory Committee was also set up with a brief to ‘ consider and recommend to the General Committee what , in their opinion , is necessary for the purpose of effectively carrying into effect the resolution passed at the Swansea Congress ’ . |
| 11 | There was the occasion in 1979 when a valve malfunctioned and was ingeniously fixed up with a handy piece of angle iron . |
| 12 | Once the new house had been built is was often blocked in with a single course of concrete blocks and curiously enough today thirty five years later the modern method of building houses is to construct them all of wood and then surround them with a single course of concrete blocks . |
| 13 | Mark was now speaking out with a vengeance . |
| 14 | Within a few days of its unveiling Achilles was modestly kitted out with a fig leaf . |
| 15 | His forehead was tightly wound round with a torn piece of an old checked head-scarf in an effort to ease his headache . |