Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] with [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His attempts to rectify this met with little encouragement . |
| 2 | This met with some opposition , for there were those who regarded music with suspicion because of its ‘ human ’ origins and its consequent unworthiness for the offering of pure worship , Nevertheless , hymns grew in favour in succeeding years and especially in the first part of the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | This began with some flattering words about us both , and implied that he had for long been unable to make up his mind about the abdication . |
| 4 | By carefully examining Figure 4.6 you can see that on the African Plate the relationship is , in fact , the opposite of that predicted with several hot spots located in areas of low lithospheric vulnerability . |
| 5 | When two potentially toxic agents are coadministered the resultant toxicity may be greater than that observed with either agent when given alone . |
| 6 | Though no eye-witness survived , there is reason to believe that it all began with some Bavarian soldiers brewing up coffee — in a delightfully careless South German way — on upturned cordite cases , using explosive scooped out of hand grenades as fuel ! |
| 7 | They all worked with some under fives attending the schools they covered . |
| 8 | Catherine II persisted with this form but had it more richly jewelled ( fig. 37 ) . |
| 9 | It 's all crowded with all these trolleys and I keep bumping into them . |
| 10 | But the fact that several critics began to challenge them as early as 1924 demonstrates that the campaign she had initiated in 1923 met with some success . |
| 11 | Development continued and the 3D wing was modified to the super critical wing , and first flew with this wing on 6 May 77 . |
| 12 | And they point out that the applications being checked are a tiny percentage of the 340,000 dealt with this year . |
| 13 | Her achievement of 144 points out of a possible 150 tied with those of a boy from the choir school at Durham as the highest marks recorded at the grade in the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music 's most recent examining period . |
| 14 | Two names in particular appeared with enough regularity for people to talk . |
| 15 | That continued with some effort for the next twenty-five years , when I had the good fortune to be introduced to Lady Collins , who had inspired a succession of what was eventually called Fount Books , some reprints of more expensive books , some specially written for her series , both varieties being published in paperback , at the lowest possible price . |
| 16 | Theodora paused to speculate how , since a Holy Week retreat at St Sylvester 's would almost certainly be conducted in silence , these two communicated with each other . |
| 17 | The season of 1983 began with another skirmish with Frank Dick over my non-selection for the European Indoor Championships . |
| 18 | There was , however , room for two pages of details of other excerpts records in the same series : why anyone would be any more interested in these than in the Humperdinck if they had not more information than that supplied with this CD was not clear . |
| 19 | Over 60% agreed and around a third disagreed with this suggestion , over 75% of the former being sole practitioners . |
| 20 | The swopping of cheap for expensive leathers by shoe makers was dealt with by 9 George I c. 27 in 1722 , while 13 George II c. 8 in 1739 dealt with several putting-out trades including iron working , textiles and leather . |