Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] they with " in BNC.
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| 1 | There we are , I was hiding them with my hand . |
| 2 | ‘ I knew I was leaving them with the basis of a good side and a first-rate manager in Nigel Best . |
| 3 | ‘ I knew I was leaving them with the basis of a good side and a first-rate manager in Nigel Best . |
| 4 | But I can only retrieve her lips , those lightly ribbed , juicy lips , studded and patterned in close-up like a mulberry or a raspberry , their almost leathery texture if you were to brush them with your fingertips or tongue tip ( that snaky little organ equipped with ideas of its own ) . |
| 5 | She was regarding them with wide , dark eyes , full of uncertainty . |
| 6 | A pessimistic interpretation of the findings based on this approach was that the visual cortex had nothing to do with vision , since few , if any , cells in that part of the brain showed any interest in spots of light they were presenting them with . |
| 7 | The people knew God did not need to be fed by them — he was feeding them with manna . |
| 8 | The only thing wrong was he was washing them with a hundred octane gasoline , he had a gasoline engine firing exhaust underneath it and he was parked among all our gas trucks . |
| 9 | He was threatening them with an extraordinary general meeting of the club . |