Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] with the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The year 1973 came close to repeating the triumphs of 1972 but , as usual in FI , other cars were catching up with the Lotus , though not in qualifying , for 1973 was the year in which Ronnie Peterson notched an astonishing nine pole positions and a place on the front row in twelve of the season 's fifteen races , as against one and five for Emerson , Peterson finishing a mere three points behind Fittipaldi . |
| 2 | Instead , studies were carried out with the focus now on the listener rather than the speaker . |
| 3 | In the meantime , they were pressing on with the task of handing leaflets to anyone prepared to take one , and taking limited encouragement from the presence of a junior Labour front-bencher , Kate Hoey , at their conference fringe meeting . |
| 4 | We were fed up with the sexism in self-organized disability movements and even more fed up with the ableism of the women 's movement . |
| 5 | With all the bad publicity , one might think Americans were fed up with the NEA . |
| 6 | Solutions of 100 mM drug in PBS/10% FCS were made up with the concentration of NaCl reduced to maintain osmolality . |
| 7 | ‘ All the people waiting at the bus stops were shrivelled up with the cold ; they looked so miserable standing there but cheered up when they saw us coming along . |
| 8 | ‘ I was asking , Preston , how you were getting on with the Devil . ’ |
| 9 | We do not send you copies of every letter we write , minutes of every meeting we attend , etc because we assumed you would realise we were getting on with the job . |
| 10 | What I am getting at is that , in these historical cases , egalitarian ideas were tied in with the presumption that the proposition " all men are born equal " can be glossed " all men ( who are people like us ) are born equal " . |
| 11 | Thus , with a rate of inflation averaging 4% in the 1980s , the £58 licence fee set in 1985 would have had to increase by £7 by 1988 if it were to keep up with the increase in the general price level only . |
| 12 | And the entire staff and management committee at Monte Samana were bubbling over with the news that old Mrs Richards had a boyfriend . |
| 13 | Churchill 's early books , treasured by earlier custodians of the Party 's heritage , were thrown in with the rest . |
| 14 | A number of players were tried out with the championship very much in mind and now comes the real test for the youngsters on Sunday in Newry . |
| 15 | Most of pop 's pretensions to offering social commentary for all were waning along with The Clash and the 2-Tone contingent , and a new ethic of dance-and-forget prevailed . |
| 16 | The peaks of these helmets , however , were sharpened up with the aid of a file and ‘ nutting ’ someone whilst wearing such a weapon , he claimed , could literally chop their head off . |
| 17 | As we emptied our dustbins out we noticed another bin full of cold ravioli and bread left over from lunch ; the bread was mixed in with the garbage and was soggy from being in a dustbin of cold ravioli for two hours . |
| 18 | This hi-tech theme was carried on with the Starstream XII which featured a semi-acoustic Teardrop body , built in tuner , distortion , treble and bass boost , percussion and a hand operated wah-wah device . |
| 19 | ‘ In 1991 , £250,000 worth of work was carried out with the help of contributions from local businesses . ’ |
| 20 | As the police privately noted at the time , most of them showed substantial expertise and one in particular was carried out with the skill to be found only among persons such as highly trained army saboteurs . |
| 21 | True to this description , the Joint High Command played no part in the Hungarian intervention of 1956 , commanded by Army General P. I. Batov of the Soviet Ground Forces ; nor in the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 , which was carried out with the participation of other Pact forces . |
| 22 | A similar investigation was carried out with the lexicon used in the current system to determine it 's ability to cope with unseen text . |
| 23 | As Eadmer saw it , the turning point came in 1076 , when Lanfranc was pressing on with the building of the new church , and had recently appointed Henry , his Italian fellow-countryman from Bec , as prior . |
| 24 | When I asked earlier what those penalties might be , I was fobbed off with the answer that the matter would be referred to the industrial tribunal , and that the worker involved might receive some form of compensation . |
| 25 | She was fed up with the factory-style working conditions involved in producing a day-in-day-out series . |
| 26 | Rogers was fed up with the subject . |
| 27 | She was fed up with the carry-on . " |
| 28 | In fact the woman was fed up with the smell that the tomcat caused about the place and was glad to be shot of it . |
| 29 | He was fed up with the politics of big business . |
| 30 | Ellis declined to say how much the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club is being paid for the service , but this is not money which British racing is missing out on , as a contract , subject to review after three years , was drawn up with the Racecourse Association at the beginning of SIS transmission . |