Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pers pn] with the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crowds were to provide him with the project that kept him busy for decades , the writing of Crowds And Power . |
| 2 | After confirming that I was n't taking any medication , she gave me two small white pills with a glass of water and sat me down , explaining that my Mother had been seriously burned and the pills were to help me with the shock when I saw her . |
| 3 | ‘ Christopher , ’ said Francis to Jane , who was helping him with the sheep the next morning , ‘ has been like a father to me . ’ |
| 4 | I did n't take offence , nor did I think her last question the non sequitur of a schizophrenic — Chineseness had everything to do with financial acumen — but she was treating me with the politeness she would accord a stranger who was her equal . |
| 5 | But the former golden girl of British tennis , who was mixing it with the world 's elite just five years ago , was pegged back when Smith won the second set tie-break 7-2 . |
| 6 | And again he looked around , this time for the devil who was tempting him with the prospect he most profoundly desired . |
| 7 | It was then she realised that he was lambasting her with the tennis racquet . |
| 8 | ‘ I knew I was leaving them with the basis of a good side and a first-rate manager in Nigel Best . |
| 9 | ‘ I knew I was leaving them with the basis of a good side and a first-rate manager in Nigel Best . |
| 10 | ‘ I was watching you with the stopwatch . ’ |
| 11 | And perhaps Labour 's greatest ever mistake was to saddle it with the label ‘ poll tax ’ , thereby fixing in the public mind the link between voting and taxation . |