Example sentences of "was [verb] with [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ ’ |
| 2 | WHATEVER ELSE it brings , April 9 marks the anniversary of the death of Francis Bacon , the philosopher who perished in 1626 from bronchitis contracted in Highgate while he was experimenting with ways of preserving chickens in snow . |
| 3 | The High Street was bedecked with strings of coloured light bulbs and skeletal Christmas trees which would spring to life at dusk . |
| 4 | In cases 7 and 8 the scheduled course of treatment was completed with clearance of viral DNA , but liver failure developed two and eight weeks later . |
| 5 | The Alexandra Dry Dock was completed with measurements of 100.58 metres length , 14.48 metres breadth and 5.67 metres over the sill on Spring Tides . |
| 6 | The young father ushered him round to the back where he was received with screams of delight . |
| 7 | This women 's protest was received with expressions of outrage and puzzlement by men within the dominant political culture . |
| 8 | Tom placed a bowl beside his feet , which was filled with scraps of meat and biscuits for Sammy who had already started chewing the end of one of the socks . |
| 9 | Her mind was filled with memories of his words and his kisses , and thoughts of their coming meeting . |
| 10 | He received the homage of the members of his household before going to pray at the oratory of St Laurence , which was filled with relics of the saints , and finally retiring to his private apartments . |
| 11 | The big church was filled with baskets of beautiful flowers and an organ played soft music . |
| 12 | Much of this paper was filled with lists of the precise car allowances paid to individual officers , details of minor repairs to council property and similar routine matters ( Maud 1967 , Vol. 1:34 and 32 ) . |
| 13 | I idly picked up one of the leaflets which had two pictures on its cover ; the first illustration showed a happy black family , all neatly dressed and reading books around a table that was filled with platefuls of food and with jugs labelled ‘ milk ’ . |
| 14 | The following day brought several more guests and with two days yet to go to the start of the conference , Darlington Hall was filled with people of all nationalities , talking in rooms , or else standing around , apparently aimlessly , in the hall , in corridors and on landings , examining pictures or objects . |
| 15 | It was filled with sacks of corn and oats that mingled their scents with hay from the loft above and the lingering fragrance of the last of the stored apples . |
| 16 | The book was filled with pictures of a marmalade coloured cat . |
| 17 | The older children were to sit in the back half of the hall which was filled with rows of chairs . |
| 18 | Even as he drifted into sleep , his eyes pricked with unshed tears and his mind was filled with images of the Irishman snorting like a foraging pig around his mam 's naked body . |
| 19 | He and Ford had a cannon on the roof loaded with everything that they had been able to lay their hands on : stones , penknives , pieces of lightning-conductor , chains , nails , the embossed silver cutlery from the dining-room , and even some ivory false teeth , picked up by Ford who had seen them gleaming in the undergrowth ; but the greater part of the improvised canister was filled with fragments of marble chipped from The Spirit of Science Conquers Ignorance and Prejudice . |
| 20 | Her throat was filled with coils of barbed wire . |
| 21 | It was developed with grants of $1.2m from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency , $400,000 from the US Office of Naval Research . |
| 22 | He turned and looked at Cranston , noting how the fat coroner 's face was dewed with drops of sweat . |
| 23 | Immediately beside him Kegan was fussing with sheets of paper , arranging and rearranging them into neat aligned squares . |
| 24 | The lime was mixed with flowers of sulphur so that the walls would give off sulphurous fumes when they got warm . |
| 25 | Concern about the plight of young intellectuals was mixed with promises of improvements . |
| 26 | At first , they wondered whether they had made contact with an alien civilization ; indeed , I remember that the seminar room in which they announced their discovery was decorated with figures of ‘ little green men . ’ |
| 27 | The tower at Radway was based on the medieval Guy 's tower at Warwick Castle , but it was also intended to underline the historical associations of the place : standing on the spot where King Charles I is supposed to have raised his standard before the battle of Edgehill , it was designed to house a statue of the British hero Caractacus and was decorated with emblems of the Saxon heptarchy , and its ceremonial opening took place on the anniversary of the death of Oliver Cromwell . |
| 28 | But it was n't just her eating habits that kept Jess 's eyes riveted , or her extraordinary white wig that rose to a height of two feet or more and was decorated with bunches of false cherries and violets — it was the way she conducted herself . |
| 29 | Behind the bar the wall was decorated with postcards of the Pope and the Madonna . |
| 30 | When not used for special audiences this room served as a drawing room for the Empress 's ladies and was decorated with portraits of the ‘ friends ’ of the Empress , among them the Countess Walewska , the Duchess de Morny and the Countess de Noailles . |