Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [verb] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she felt , though comfortable in bed , as if she were standing with the rain sluicing all over her , streaming soothing over her breasts and down her thighs , warm and comforting and she hoped that he was not in difficulties on the road and that he was thinking about the rain . |
| 2 | I heard you were living with a cabinet member 's daughter and fighting for Gay Rights in Fast Cheam ? ’ |
| 3 | It must be difficult , thought Henry , when you were living with an obscenely masculine , fat , not particularly talented patriarch like Henry . |
| 4 | Still , the sounds the JMP-1 produces — not only live , but direct to tape — would lead you to believe you were dealing with a whole crate of bottles . |
| 5 | If you were dealing with a foreign national it often paid to have a representative of a Great Power , like Britain , at your back . |
| 6 | ‘ You were connected with the original survey ? ’ |
| 7 | When I came into the room , you were lying with the sheet half off you , so I had the full benefit of the sight of your virginal pyjamas . ’ |
| 8 | " I mean , " I went on , " if you were working with an English actor called , I do n't know , Jizz Jenkins or something , you 'd have |
| 9 | So you were travelling with the stallions |
| 10 | I showered , shaved — shaved my legs — like I said this was back in sixty-six , the world was a more innocent place , those days no one accused you of anti-feminism if you were caught with a tube of Immac . |
| 11 | unless you were going with a group of friends cos you do n't , you would n't meet anyone , you would , s seriously they were , last year they were like twelve years old . |
| 12 | You were going with the picture on the outside , well that 's fatal . |
| 13 | And er at the end of it you were issued with a a report you see . |
| 14 | K. R. Then you had to produce your appointments — which was your baton and brass keys [ for the police telephone boxes ] , hold them in your hands , and then you were issued with the Beat Book on parade . |
| 15 | That is perfectly relevant , we saw what you felt when you were briefed with the reference on the twenty second of December . |
| 16 | Might I ask whether you were acquainted with a friend of ours , a Lieutenant Daniel , of the Grand Army ? ’ |
| 17 | She said you were interning with a stockbroker and it was a special summer programme , so all the best and all the rest everyone else has already said to you . |
| 18 | But if you were playing with a drummer who liked to give it some wallop , you 'd soon be lost in terms of volume , and that would piss you off a bit . |
| 19 | When you were playing with the Floyd , did you use a similar sort of rig ? |
| 20 | Political and historical competence — we were quarrelling with the Communists before anyone else — and also on professional competence . |
| 21 | Dad leapt with alarm as , at the touch of a button , the passenger window slid down taking his chin-supporting arm with it ; and when his seat position was electronically altered , we were rewarded with a cry of ‘ What the bloody ‘ ell … ? ! ’ |
| 22 | S. H. We were treated with a considerable amount of respect by the middle class . |
| 23 | As we wandered about , we were treated with the kind of curiosity I imagine one reserves for a chance meeting with people from the planet Zarg . |
| 24 | Sunday , 14th : Flew with British Council English Studies Officers and to Jaipur , where we were met with a posy of flowers at the airport by my host and ex-student , , organizer of the Workshop on Communicative Grammar . |
| 25 | ‘ We said that if David was out , then we were all out and would n't play against Bournemouth because we were sticking with the players still owed money . |
| 26 | We were talking just last night about how the people here seem to love us , and I said , ‘ Well , I do n't really take that personally — more that we were connected with a happening . ’ |
| 27 | She thinks that we have absolutely no understanding of anybody because we were born with a silver spoon in our mouths . |
| 28 | Then we were blessed with a rather noisy comfort . |
| 29 | For the rest of the day we were blessed with the dappled shade of the Tiziatin Forest , a spread of evergreen oak . |
| 30 | I therefore went into a meeting at in December and er we were presented with a report , we did n't receive it before the meeting , it was taken at the meeting and we said that we would n't discuss it if it related to night flights and again I wrote immediately back to the department of transport and I suggested that they should erm spend the report which I refer to , monthly figures of night flights so that the night flights could be monitored . |