Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As ‘ real polises ’ we were correctly distributed in space and our bodies were properly turned out with the symbols of order . |
| 2 | Anyway , it was a good job we did because these erm these grouse and these chickens , I mean , they were so blended in with the the , the roadside you could hardly see them , and then they moved . |
| 3 | Associated with them was the potentially much more radical assumption that the foreign relations of States were indissolubly bound up with the structure of their internal politics . |
| 4 | He and his Ibiza neighbour , Keke Rosberg , were both fed up with the sport , and things were going badly for both of them . |
| 5 | Morning and afternoon sessions were mainly taken up with the business of the Union and these were highlighted by the clarity of reporting and the general agreement of delegates to the proposals put forward . |
| 6 | Those people who went along to hear you play ‘ Heart Of Gold ’ on the ‘ Weld ’ tour got a blast of Sonic Youth , liberal idealists were shocked by your Reagan-supporting stance in the mid-'80s , your newly-won reactionary followers were soundly ticked off with the capitalist lambasting of ‘ Freedom ’ at the close of the decade … |
| 7 | The lady was travelling on this particular journey which was subject to many delays owing to permanent way maintenance work , and the passengers were heartily fed up with the hassle . |
| 8 | As new lands were discovered , rights to exploit inshore fish , seals and other assets were sometimes claimed along with the territory , but neither policing nor management were usually practicable . |
| 9 | This was because their programmes for investment of capital funds ( i.e. funds for the construction of new facilities ) , to support which ‘ growth ’ revenue for the running costs was of course required , were completely taken up with the task of moving general medicine out of over-provided London to the under-provided hinterland of Essex . |
| 10 | It has been a fundamental aim of this study to argue that the images of working-class youth , and their means of construction were inextricably bound up with the political , economic , social , and cultural issues of the time . |
| 11 | In her mind the murder and the attack at the Chagall museum were inextricably bound up with the secret of the Durances . |
| 12 | Grandfather 's principal interest was to hear the one who played the piano but when he got there he was rather taken up with the violinist . |
| 13 | As such , much of the debate over homosexuality was intimately bound up with the wider argument that has already been identified over the role and significance of the modern ‘ nuclear ’ or ‘ bourgeois ’ family . |
| 14 | It is only too obvious that this balance between action and personal life was intimately bound up with the conditions of clandestine action and could not survive it . |
| 15 | It was all tied up with the rigid censorship restrictions of the 1940s . |
| 16 | The disorganized nature of catholic — nationalist politics was only turned round with the emergence of the civil rights movement of 1968 and the subsequent forming of the SDLP in 1970 . |
| 17 | Meanwhile Jackson himself , a gangly six foot four , with a hairline not so much receding as speeding flat out towards his neck , was easily slotted in with the other unlikely pop stars , taking their surly revenge on the conventional way of doing things . |
| 18 | I was just fed up with the whole situation . |
| 19 | And she was always turned out with the meticulous make-up and clothes of a Barbie doll , an arch exponent of power dressing with padded shoulders to her grey suit and a tight pencil skirt that drew attention to her long , shapely legs . |
| 20 | But it was now three o'clock in the morning and the debate was quickly wound up with the money being voted for the site and foundations . |
| 21 | But he was later captured along with the car 's driver . |
| 22 | And of course , he was right : the car was accurately lined up with the arrow . |
| 23 | Abercrombie 's broad-brush strategy was now filled in with the complementary prescriptions for design at the local scale , both central areas and residential districts . |
| 24 | For the present , in the daytime , he was abruptly fed up with the lot : himself , his insufficiency , the toll that his financial state seemed to be taking of his wife , and the colossally polite head of his stepson , hanging over him now as if it had a miniature keg of brandy around its neck . |
| 25 | The design was then filled out with the smaller red roses , ‘ Yesterday ’ and ‘ Marjorie Fair ’ , and finally to complete any gaps I used some pink ‘ Ballerina ’ and creamy pink ‘ Penelope ’ roses . |
| 26 | The unequal distribution of such prestigious goods found in the cemeteries may be seen as a reflection of hierarchies in early Anglo-Saxon England and how the maintenance of such hierarchies was closely bound up with the consumption of such valuables . |
| 27 | The origins of an organised market in the debt of the government can be traced to the end of the seventeenth century and during the following hundred years the growth of the Stock Exchange itself was closely bound up with the growth of government debt . |
| 28 | Cases were being loaded and mine was unceremoniously tossed in with the rest . |
| 29 | The bed was crisply made up with the be-frilled white broderie anglaise bed-linen which she 'd brought specially from England as her gift to Marie-Christine and Jacques . |
| 30 | I was too bound up with the problems of the present moment to enjoy the luxury of retrospection . |