Example sentences of "was [vb pp] with a " 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was furnished with an ancient iron bedstead and a wooden table so decrepit that it collapsed as I walked past it . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Both tubes were introduced via the nose and the position of the tubes was checked with a fluoroscope . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In 1881 a socialist organization was formed with a mainly intellectual leadership , and it was obliged to confront the possibility of the recreation of Poland out of the territories held by the Tsar ( the part known as the Kingdom of Poland ) , the Habsburgs and the Hohenzollerns of Prussia . |
| 18 | A religious triumvirate was formed with a Catholic , Canon George Craven , and a Protestant , the Reverend William Simpson , elected to the central committee to join Rabbi Maurice Swift . |
| 19 | As I 'm sure you 'll understand , when I first came to see this awful situation I was consumed with a feeling of frustration — knowing , as I did then , that it could be some time before we 'd be in a position to intervene . |
| 20 | Love notes written by the accused to Miss Whitehead were also found which showed how he was consumed with a jealous sexual obsession after she had refused to sleep with him , the court heard . |
| 21 | Limping down that glossy road , the yellow brick road to my fantasy land of the past , I was consumed with an expectation which would have been delightful save for the physical effect of breathlessness . |
| 22 | A percutaneous cholecystogram was done and then the fundus of the gall bladder was punctured with a Kellett needle ( 152 mm long dwell sheathed needle , Becton Dickinson , Ontario , Canada ) , using a combination of ultrasound and fluoroscopic guidance . |
| 23 | He never knew whether the gendarme understood him or not but felt relief flood over him when he was dismissed with a curt wave of the hand . |
| 24 | … they differed in the colour of their skin from all the people of our habitable world , for the whole surface of their skin was tinged With a green colour . |
| 25 | The familiar ride past the saluting gateman , past the lemon groves and the sharp roundabout to the little dirt road that was Santa Barbara 's main street , was tinged with an overwhelming gloom in spite of its beauty . |
| 26 | Using this symptom with those of the flushes which were worse at night and aversion to anything around the neck the remedy Lachesis LM1 was prescribed with an immediate improvement generally and in symptoms . |
| 27 | For autoradiography of the electrophoretic pattern , Kodak-XOMAT-S film was exposed with an intensifier screen ( Amersham Buchler ) at -80°C overnight . |
| 28 | This happened to a man with eczema and asthma who was treated with a low potency of sulphur which improved both symptoms . |
| 29 | I 've always been amazed , and continue to be amazed , by the years in which the composer was treated with a certain amount of contempt simply out of jealousy , because he had this marvellous gift for a singable tune . ’ |
| 30 | One patient was treated with a drug not normally used for the condition after it had successfully been tested on her blood . |