Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He fled and fled , and every door he found was painted with the black plague cross and every face he pleaded with was tinged with the red of plague fever . |
| 2 | It was gone in a moment , but briefly she 'd been filled with a sudden , oddly urgent desire to know more about him . |
| 3 | By then large drops were falling all around me , another landing on my wig and one splashing on my shoulder , making me jump as if I 'd been prodded with a therm-knife . |
| 4 | She was wearing biker leathers and cowboy boots which all looked as if they 'd been applied with the aid of a shoehorn . |
| 5 | Last week the Government warned that around 300 women who 'd been injected with a hormone called gonadotrophin , extracted from the pituitary glands of human corpses , could be at risk . |
| 6 | Jahsaxa flinched with annoyance when she realised she 'd been connected with the Roirbak answering machine again . |
| 7 | Sobbing with pain and rage , he was carted off to hospital by an ashen Claudia and the family doctor , who 'd been presented with a horse every time he delivered a Mendoza baby . |
| 8 | He fell into the chair as though he 'd been hit with a medicine ball and said very little while Malc 's parents discussed what we should do . |
| 9 | A team-mate claimed : ‘ He looked like he 'd been hit with a meat cleaver . ’ |
| 10 | Ted jerked up like a man who 'd been zapped with a thousand volts . |
| 11 | His jeans looked as if they 'd been slashed with a knife . |
| 12 | ‘ I fancied a change of scene from London where I 'd been working with the Bank of England in-house catering team ’ she said . |
| 13 | He 'd been corresponding with a local cricket scribe for five years before the trip and had recruited two current Test cricketers in Roy Minnett and Gerry Hazlitt , the dashing Dockers , Cyril and Philip , and an adonis figure in Norman Ebbsworth . |
| 14 | She 'd been grappling with the oddest emotional reaction , one she 'd never come across before and could n't fathom at all , clutching the jacket round her so tightly that her knuckles were white . |
| 15 | The strategy adopted was to begin with the best analysed corpus available when we started work ( Alvar Ellegard 's 128,000 word analysed subset of the Brown Corpus of American English ) , convert it into a format that could be used in practice , and improve and extend it in various ways . |
| 16 | He 'd was stationed with the Royal Army Medical Corps in Bosnia protecting the UN headquarters in Sarajevo . |
| 17 | The genuine and constructive concern for elementary education which the emperor showed was combined with a marked dislike of scholars , whom he regarded as useless parasites . |
| 18 | The amount of PABA released was estimated with an assay system for urinary PABA ( Eisai Co , Tokyo , Japan ) . |
| 19 | During the 15 months I lived in New Jersey before my injury , just about everybody I knew was connected with the game . |
| 20 | In Sutcliffe v Thackrah [ 1974 ] AC 727 at 763D Lord Salmon explained the point as follows : In Re Hopper Cockburn CJ … was … saying that the question whether anyone was to be treated as an arbitrator depended on whether the role which he performed was invested with the characteristic attributes of the judicial role . |
| 21 | The Foreign Office said a list of 45 Britons who had visited the ranch recently and may still be there had been compiled with the help of U.S. immigration authorities and worried relatives . |
| 22 | Each of the wide windows facing the road had been blocked with a sheet of paper . |
| 23 | Or perhaps her whole being had been flooded with the personality of the real , dead Walter , as she tried to reproduce his style , the dash of his personality , his iconoclastic irreverence . |
| 24 | Again I thought , well , the world 's there whenever I want it and I had been presented with an incredible opportunity . ’ |
| 25 | Australian DJ Brian White told his listeners that a drunken journalist had approached Kylie after she had been presented with an award and asked her if she felt ashamed to have won it in a room full of so many talented people . |
| 26 | Thousands of people had been presented with an alternative and had decided according to an inner inspiration . |
| 27 | Now that they had been presented with the information which they had requested all along , they had to prove that faecal contamination of the egg shell did not constitute any great risk to public health , Mother Catherine said . |
| 28 | And already in similiar circumstances in France last summer he had been presented with the kind of opportunity to prove himself that many young pianists must dream of in vain : he was called on , again at very short notice , to stand in for the even more illustrious Sviatoslav Richter at Richter 's own festival at the Grange Meslay near Tours . |
| 29 | This seems strange to me now because I feel sure that if I had been presented with the image of the glass coffin when I was well into the depressive phase of anorexia , I should have recognised it instantly . |
| 30 | On the day Lucy had been presented with the key of the Toyota , Margaret Telford had said , ‘ Now promise me you 'll never pick up hitch-hikers or strangers . |