Example sentences of "it was [verb] [adv prt] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day the settee is opposite the door , the next it is where the telly was before it was swapped round with the nest of tables . |
| 2 | It is , in fact , possible to go beyond the association of these particular principles with democracy , and say that the emergence of politics as we understand it was tied up with the emergence of democracy in ancient Greece . |
| 3 | The Soviet Union decided to endorse the expulsion of Escalante : Castro was henceforth referred to as ‘ comrade ’ and Cuba 's place in the Soviet bloc was officially acknowledged when it was listed along with the other ’ socialist' states in the traditional May Day slogans . |
| 4 | Brian , alone of us all , knew how difficult it was to go through with a hunger strike . |
| 5 | When it was taken up with the Headmaster he said that the boy 's name was not on the roll , they did not know of him . |
| 6 | ‘ A couple of weeks ago one of these Mafia men was sitting in his Mercedes when it was taken out with a grenade launcher from a range of 300 metres . |
| 7 | Rather than bury the flesh and fat in France , it was sealed up with the bones in a leaden case , together with an enormous quantity of spices . |
| 8 | It was lined up with the erm , the title of that column , |
| 9 | ‘ The treatment was two doses of a very potent drug with rather nasty side effects ; I also had to swallow a small container on the end of a string and sleep with the string taped to my cheek all night ; in the morning it was drawn out with a sample of stomach contents . |
| 10 | 6–2- " That whilst under the Old Testament Instrumental Music was prescribed as part of the Temple service it was removed along with the other peculiarities of that service , under the new and more spiritual dispensation from which ritualistic and sensuous forms of worship were excluded ; that no Instrumental Music was prescribed or practised by Christ and his Apostles … |
| 11 | In one instance after some teenagers had burned a milk float , it was spelled out with the additional phrase ‘ the same as was used by Mahatma Gandhi in India ’ . |
| 12 | It was held in with the present public excluded but now we seem to have a completely different situation . |