Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a control , sections from all patient and control lungs were stained with ET-1 antiserum that had been immunoabsorbed with synthetic ET-1 overnight at 4°C , or incubated with normal goat serum instead of the primary antisera . |
| 2 | The only member of the squad who could ; the others hammered or pecked with two fingers , swore picturesquely , and reached for the erasing fluid . |
| 3 | Some are intersected with elegant stripes or studded with radiant spots ; others affect to be genteelly powdered or neatly fringed . |
| 4 | Flowers can transform the appearance of drinks , desserts and salads when they are sprinkled with petals , or garnished with whole flowers . |
| 5 | It was not clear whether the robber ever got out of the car or escaped with any of their valuables . |
| 6 | Meadows would be cut for hay once a year , and pastures would be grazed and never ploughed , planted or plied with artificial fertilisers and pesticides . |
| 7 | He was on the move again , whether he had annoyed the proprietor at his cheap hotel by his late night rowdiness , or quarrelled with one of the pimps because the girls staying there posed for him free or simply grown tired of the place , is not clear . |
| 8 | It was almost as if he had no body , because no part of it hurt , or itched , or shivered with cold , or even felt the wooden planking through the quilt . |
| 9 | Main trends : Christian Religious Knowledge syllabuses are rapidly developing joint denominational approaches ( Lesotho and Uganda ) and more slowly , but nevertheless steadily beginning to widen syllabuses , based on Bible knowledge and catechism , towards greater discussion of local and contemporary moral issues ( Kenya and Zambia ) ; local beliefs and customs are no longer excluded or contrasted with Christian beliefs . |
| 10 | We were given a lot of work to prepare in our spare time and I remember trying to keep warm in the daytime in an overcoat and scarf while I wrote an essay or struggled with Latin composition . |
| 11 | But whereas those first person narrators are fairly transparent surrogates for the implied authors of those novels , the first-person narrators of modernist texts are more ambiguous , less reliable witnesses to their own experience , and are often framed by or counterpointed with other narrators — as , for example , in Henry James 's The Turn of the Screw or Conrad 's Heart of Darkness . |
| 12 | Gasping at the totally unexpected movement , and the searing shock of his touch , Polly stared up into eyes that gleamed with cold fire . |
| 13 | Table 5 shows the percentage of respondents that agreed with particular statements about solicitors . |
| 14 | He could see by the dark light that came down from the night sky , a sky that glowed with vivid city lights , that on stands in nearby cages other eagles were listening to his story and staring at him silently . |
| 15 | Open stone staircases swept up to bedrooms that bristled with floor-to-ceiling windows . |
| 16 | Here were the scars that healed with such unnatural speed . |
| 17 | She poked again — dug right down to the bottom and up through the shambles came something that signalled with painful clarity . |
| 18 | What is known is that this last pre-Roman culture had a vitality and civilization that compared with that of the Greeks . |
| 19 | Mr Hadley , who teaches at the Grants School of Wine , cites studies which have found that compared with lifelong abstainers , moderate drinkers show a 26 per cent reduction in the incidence of heart trouble . |
| 20 | In summary , this study shows that compared with medical treatment the heater probe reduces the rebleeding rate in a non-bleeding visible vessel by 62% , there was no death , and complications were minimal . |
| 21 | In my case , for four or five years I think I was probably the only person that played with digital delays and two amps and all that , and it was like a new thing . |
| 22 | Camb looked compassionately at the quivering febrile mouth and the long unfiled nails that played with those rings . |
| 23 | I have few clues that would let me construct a picture of my mother 's childhood , that would explain her denial of mine as my own , and the rage that came with that denial . |
| 24 | The tears that came with this knowledge were now true tears of grieving for his father 's death , and the knowledge that they would never communicate with each other . |
| 25 | Oh it was one that came with this which was remmed out . |
| 26 | The opening music was greeted by a torrential shower of rain that drummed with deafening force on the stage and put out the fires of Hell . |
| 27 | Mainly for reasons of security , firms can not afford to keep stock in warehouses so that confronted with sudden large requests , most can not compete with their better-connected rivals in the Russian capital . |
| 28 | And I suppo I mean all that happened with that particular one was a couple of erm of er black black I think they were youth workers , I 'm not actually sure . |
| 29 | A police chief has warned that faced with soaring crime rates , his officers have little chance of catching petty offenders . |
| 30 | Workers , in any case , were supposed to have no interests that conflicted with those of working people in any other part of the USSR , and Soviet socialism was held to have ‘ solved ’ the national question by establishing a system of rule which substituted a harmonious and dynamic union based on a community of interests for the centralism and oppression of the Tsarist past . |