Example sentences of "[vb past] with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Lightning Linford , the British athletics team captain , stands head and shoulders above silver medallist Frankie Fredericks of Namibia ( right ) and American bronze medal winner Dennis Mitchell — the men he beat with amazing ease to capture the 100 metres gold medal .
2 Her heart beat with abrupt violence , sexual attraction crackling between them like electricity .
3 I drew with appropriate colours , starting with a suitable mid tone for a rough shaded drawing .
4 In 1651 Parliament appointed commissioners to sell Exmoor Forest , which was reported to be ‘ mountainous and cold ground , much beclouded with thick fogges and mists and … overgrown with heath and yielding but a poor kind of turf of little value there . ’
5 With food around , surfaces should bc as practical as possible : choose flooring which will not show crumbs and can be mopped up easily ; sideboards should bc provided with protective covers if they are not heatproof ; traditional polished tables might look good , but with children around , you may be better off going for a heatproof , scrubbable surface which can be wiped over quickly ; upholstery should be washable ; wallpaper need not be as tough as the vinyl-coated varieties .
6 Nearby is St Mary 's ( the old abbey church ) , still without benefit of electricity and containing a wonderful triple-decker pulpit and box pews built from wrecks and gouged with Jacobean graffiti .
7 ‘ His evidence oozed with personal dislike of Mr Garvey . ’
8 In an official capacity they dined with European leaders at the Edinburgh Summit .
9 She walked past the rowdy pub which had been described and up a hill of council houses fish boned with fake shutters , gardens spattered by gnomes , and windmills that whirled with weather .
10 Grey stone walls rose about them , and winged roofs surfaced with rose-red tiles caught the sun so that they seemed to be on fire .
11 Fears about the Securitate police surfaced with persistent rumours that their members were still in powerful positions and were being protected by the government .
12 So , says Daedalus , a road surfaced with catalytic material should oxidise the surface of his tyres .
13 Their heavyweight glass-fibre base is impregnated and coated with bitumen , surfaced with natural mineral coloured granules , and cut to look like traditional slates .
14 Lipski made the point that these and other examples of anti-Polish sentiment occurred with greater frequency in the areas bordering the Polish Corridor than they did in other parts of Germany .
15 Leadership purges occurred with increasing frequency .
16 It might still be necessary to ask why delinquency occurred with one son or daughter but not another .
17 The refugees provided this picture of the attack which occurred with deepest thrust yet made into Europe by Britain based American bombers .
18 Leakage occurred with equal frequency in both groups .
19 The idea that language might be localised came from the studies of Broca ( 1861 ) , who was the first to observe that aphasia arises as a result of unilateral left hemisphere lesion while no similar effect occurred with right hemisphere lesions .
20 for instance , much emphasis is placed upon fighting between tribes , which supposedly occurred with great frequency until such conflicts were stopped by the Russians .
21 Triggering of the various traps in the program occurred with surprising frequency and it was difficult to obtain an exposure value .
22 Stemberger found that the great majority of phonological errors occurred with open class lexical items .
23 20 episodes of biochemical hypoglycaemia occurred with human insulin versus 18 with porcine insulin ( -0.8 to 1 , p=0.78 ) .
24 On 3 September 1939 he still had no criminal record , though his name occurred with some frequency in the secret reports of the Special Branch and M15 .
25 The binding of items emerged as the second most important reason for their non-availability , accounting for around one in five ( 21% ) of unsatisfied requests , while the Library 's inability to locate items when they were requested ( 10% ) , and a tendency for some readers to submit requests for items not appearing in the Library 's catalogues ( 10% ) were additional reasons which occurred with some frequency .
26 Complete resolution occurred with conservative management .
27 Complete resolution occurred with conservative management .
28 With a range of culture media ( MCDB-153 , Eagles ' medium , and Dulbeco modified Eagles ' medium ) satisfactory plating and growth occurred with most media .
29 Although on average it cropped up only once an hour , there appeared to be semantic restrictions on the type of verb with which it occurred ; in the majority of cases it occurred with dynamic verbs of activity , the most frequent being do , make , finish , write .
30 Rachel entered with two plates .
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