Example sentences of "was with [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 By far the greater part of the RCM 's counselling work was with youngsters who suffered physical and mental breakdown .
2 Angie Bowie : I actually met David for the first time when he was with feathers at the Roundhouse and I was with the European head of Mercury Records , a gentleman called Lou Reisner .
3 Mrs Gillis-Tweed , who chairs the local neighbourhood watch committee , was with relatives last night after talking to police for several hours .
4 In this paper Cayley 's concern was with systems of elements satisfying the equation unc and for both n = 4 and n = 6 he showed that there is essentially just one other system besides the set of complex nth roots of unity .
5 Towards the end of his playing career when he was with Hibs and contemplating a move to the Orlando Lions , a short lived soccer team in Florida , Rough 's business interests not only brought him appalling bad luck but imposed a series of financial set-backs that were to affect him in the years to come .
6 The habit had given his room — it was hardly an office , packed as it was with artefacts from all over the world — a curious olfactory patina , as though the whole place had been dipped in aromatic tobacco and then hung out to dry .
7 His early infatuation was with motor-cycles , and he was a successful trials rider .
8 It was with tears of joy in his eyes , that Felix went forward to meet the torchbearers , who by their chants were evidently proclaiming him the hero of the hour .
9 Every minute she was in the house where she had spent most of her life , crowded as it was with memories of her parents and her grandfather , made it more difficult to bear up .
10 She quoted to me an odd and illuminating point , that if he wanted to take a bath when he was with friends , he could not see why they should not all be in the bath together , boys and girls , black and white .
11 Holiday was with friends and a lot of alcohol was consumed .
12 It was an issue particularly acute in Sussex , filled as it was with supporters of the new order , and very open to a new type of continental invasion , that of the Protestant ideas of the European Reformation .
13 In July 1049 he was with men of Gloucestershire and Herefordshire defeated by the Welsh .
14 It is true that all polls showed how popular Mr Smith was with voters , and that he is the most experienced and competent man on offer .
15 Loaded as it was with connotations of the body and pleasure — analogous to homosexuals in the United Kingdom , cast as out-groups , as bogeymen by the dominant culture , but attempting to fashion their own , necessarily coded , meanings rock 'n' roll was at first tolerated , because of its economic attractiveness , and then actively suppressed .
16 It was for this reason that I had Zowie because I could see how he was with children .
17 I wonder how good he was with children ?
18 However , he was told that the best use of his talents was with children 's work .
19 filled was with flyes , Which buzzed all about , and made such sound , That they encombred all mens eares and eyes , Like many swarmes of Bees assembled round , After their hiues with honny do abound : All those were idle thoughts and fantasies , Deuices , dreames , opinions unsound , Shewes , visions , sooth-sayes , and prophesies ; And all that fained is , as leasings , tales , and lies .
20 The CNAA 's central concern was with standards , with the negotiation , approval and reapproval of courses through explicit validation procedures , with the quality of the student 's academic environment .
21 The chaplain of King 's College , whose work was with undergraduates , came to teach divinity to the day-boys , among whom was the little Ramsey , before breakfast on two days in the week .
22 It was as lined with trays as the other table was with charts .
23 So it was with customs which were not correct .
24 I knew that if I was with prostitutes it would be very difficult for me to get into the drug community and be accepted . ’
25 Now she knew who it was with eyes like Sarah Morey 's .
26 ‘ I saw Kylie do the Stock/Aitken/Waterman thing and Jason went down that same road , and I realised I was n't going to do anything musical while I was with Neighbours , because Kylie and Jason were just copping flak from everywhere .
27 For anyone who still needs convincing that Craig is first and foremost a guitarist he quotes an incident that happened when the Y-Fronts got back together for a gig in Melbourne , during the time he was with Neighbours .
28 She noticed his comfortable , well-cut tweeds , his brogues shining as brightly as horse chestnuts , which was appropriate , since his business was with trees and forestry .
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