Example sentences of "[was/were] with the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of the original team who were with the women at the time of the move still work at their flat . |
| 2 | Erm erm so y you were , you were with the tenants ' erm association , eighty two eighty three ? |
| 3 | His chief concerns were with the conditions of labour and education of the working classes , and he was the instigator of the Factory Act of 18 19 , which prohibited the employment in textile mills of children under ten , and reduced working hours for those under eighteen . |
| 4 | Then I discovered you were with the chief , being ticked off , ’ he said mischievously . |
| 5 | The central functions required to service the large mainframes are no longer perceived to be necessary on the scale they once were with the development of distributed end-user computing and communications , and a generation of users who are not only ‘ literate ’ but competent technically . |
| 6 | Though his first political sympathies were with the Union and the right-wing of the Conservative party , William Joyce subsequently held English misgovernment to blame for the loss of Ireland . |
| 7 | On April 27th we were with the King and Queen in the Queen 's Palace in St. James 's Park … |
| 8 | In addition , they will question a sample of complainants to determine how satisfied they were with the response . |
| 9 | WHEN YOU WERE WITH THE GO GO 'S , YOU LED A PRETTY MAD LIFE . |
| 10 | The great majority of them were with the management and unions of the railways , the remainder with politicians , civil servants and others closely involved with the railways and their industrial relations . |
| 11 | The initial concerns of the Board were with the transfer of responsibilities from the Law Society and their subsequent management . |
| 12 | You were with the public , direct contact with the public and er I would hate to have been sat in an office and just looked at four walls . |
| 13 | Of course , it was useful to both Romania and China to let Moscow know how deeply involved they were with the Americans , because such knowledge could deter Moscow from interfering in their internal affairs . |
| 14 | Some of its most significant early relations were with the guild merchant , which sought to regulate the conditions of urban trade . |
| 15 | Ah , somebody was oh they were with the gyppos or something . |
| 16 | In the first , it can be proved that both A and B were with the child when the injury was caused . |
| 17 | As it happened , the links he had remade were with the Magharba in Ajdabiya . |
| 18 | As an undergraduate my sympathies were with the Left , with the Republicans in Spain , with the anti-Fascists in Italy and Germany , but always with a nearly corresponding hostility to the extremes of political thought on the other side . |
| 19 | Rather , they were with the events of August 1968 and , in particular , with the self-immolation of the young philosophy student , Jan Palach , in January 1969 . |
| 20 | She felt the distance from England far more acutely than her preoccupied spouse ; her thoughts were with the children , and , even at this early stage , she longed for the voyage home . |
| 21 | After all , if a fellow was not allowed below waist level — and the all-in-one pantie girdle was impregnable without traitorous and lustful help from the inside — then what else was there but hours of despairing mauling of the mammaries , offered up as they were with the aid of uplift-under-wired-half-cup-sponge-rubber-lace-nylon and steel display cases . |
| 22 | She opened her mouth to say they were with the police , but abruptly changed her mind . |
| 23 | No , do n't try being evasive with me the way you were with the police , because it wo n't wash . |
| 24 | The Youngs were with the Unwins from Australia and Filmer and Daffodil shared a table with a pair Nell later identified to me as the American owners of the horse called Flokati . |
| 25 | Although baptized and buried in Anglican churches , his strongest links were with the Abney Congregational church , which he had largely financed . |
| 26 | Although the award was made to me , my thoughts were with the CCG crew that were on board the Tharos that night — I really was collecting it on their behalf ’ . |
| 27 | Five other squad members were with the Merseyside B squad last season . |
| 28 | In the early days of homoeopathy , Hahnemann 's most striking successes were with the epidemic diseases — cholera , typhus , typhoid and the like . |
| 29 | ‘ He discoursed about his understanding of the Church and he said that we had to hold the high and the low together but for his part his sympathies were with the high . |
| 30 | Many years later I learned that the Bishop , whose sympathies were with the Fascists , had sent Don Cattabianchi to this distant parish because of the priest 's opposition to the regime . |