Example sentences of "[was/were] with the [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Ah , somebody was oh they were with the gyppos or something . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She opened her mouth to say they were with the police , but abruptly changed her mind . |
| 9 | No , do n't try being evasive with me the way you were with the police , because it wo n't wash . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So , however disillusioned many were with the Tories and however much that swayed what they told the pollsters , they simply could not afford the extra tax burdens promised by Labour and the Liberal Democrats . |
| 12 | The company 's first problem was with the ASICs which proved six months late . |
| 13 | The Edinburgh Evening News picked up the point during the dispute and commented that " the old story of the men 's dislike to machinery appears in this dispute just as it was with the engineers " , 25 Whatever the reason or reasons , the men 's unwillingness to handle the machines led directly to the situation of the late 1900s in which Edinburgh master printers were trying to counter the threat of London and southern firms by combining both the employment of women and the use of machines , thus posing a double threat of a new kind to the male compositor , and inspiring a more determined resistance from the latter than had been seen during the previous thirty-odd years . |
| 14 | By the time the shops are full of Thunderbirds toys again , the craze will be over — as it was with the Turtles . |
| 15 | He was with the Americans all the time — certainly till after we found the body . |
| 16 | When I was with the cattle I always wore my the cap on the side of my head . |
| 17 | It ended up being a great three days music and two weeks later , I was with The Waterboys . ’ |
| 18 | Descartes , indeed , was with the armies of Maximilian of Bavaria in 1619 at the very beginning of the Thirty Years War when , at Neuberg on the Danube , he had that sequence of dreams which convinced him that his mission was to seek out truth by means of reason . |
| 19 | Taff was with the 3″ mortar team as they continued to send over the occasional mortar bomb , their target a crossroads at the other end of the village . |
| 20 | He would also have become even more unpopular than he already was with the Pharisees , who were bitterly opposed to the Roman occupation . |
| 21 | Unfamiliar as she was with the niceties of English social life , she wondered why she should be surprised . |
| 22 | But if it 's like it was with the others , it wo n't be easy . ’ |
| 23 | Dave , a committee member of the council estate branch , said how unpopular the local MP was with the members . |
| 24 | 24 above ) was with the laws of kashrut , pollutions from secretions of various bodily orifices , and , as we have seen above , legislation about the cult and priesthood . |
| 25 | The girl was with the children . ’ |
| 26 | She was with the children er er , looking at the stage , to the left . |
| 27 | She was with the children . |
| 28 | It had been in Essex that , out of discontent with sitting at home , Leslie had requested a posting abroad ; and it was somehow appropriate that it was with the men of Essex that he should have ended the North African campaign . |
| 29 | He made his first appearance for Northampton Town at the age of 15 in a London Combination match with QPR and while he was with The Cobblers he was spotted by Tom Bromilow , a former Palace manager , who was then with Leicester City . |
| 30 | This act led , with Henry VIII 's blessing , to Beaton 's murder two months later ; and it was while he was with the Castalians in St Andrews that Knox first went far further than any earlier reformer in Scotland . |