Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [pron] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were old aims but the intention was to pursue them with greater vigour and effectiveness . |
| 2 | The result of this slight deformity was to leave him with a rather nasal drawl . |
| 3 | Arthur and Geoff were already there and the ARP organist was surpassing himself with appropriate music . |
| 4 | He knew well enough that convincing politicians was a tough job , so his plan was to present them with an informed and insistent electorate of the future . |
| 5 | It was Saturday morning and suburbia was busying itself with the tasks it likes so much . |
| 6 | Her collarbone was ambushing her with surprise guerrilla raids of searing pain while her head was screaming revenge for the ordeals it had undergone during the past twelve hours . |
| 7 | Brückner was watching him with wide , frightened eyes . |
| 8 | This Moroccan policeman was watching you with a distinctly beady eye . |
| 9 | Oswin was watching her with expressionless eyes . |
| 10 | At Metz , in German-occupied Alsace-Lorraine , a station was built which with its German Romanesque frontage , Teutonic warrior statues , and stained-glass images of Charlemagne deliberately aimed to stress the current political status of the province . |
| 11 | The theremin was playing itself with passion , with feeling . |
| 12 | Old Ladjang remonstrated with him quietly , but the others were silent , and we realized that our captain was infecting them with a subtle but poisonous hostility towards us . |
| 13 | Billie was fanning herself with the blanket to cool the sweat that was running down her body . |
| 14 | Rivington was hugging himself with glee , as they approached Hyde Park Corner . |
| 15 | The man was regarding her with natural surprise . |
| 16 | Well union , you know the union in the coal mines and all different well er everywhere in the North Wales here to , postmen , well every union was helping us with them . |
| 17 | And perhaps Labour 's greatest ever mistake was to saddle it with the label ‘ poll tax ’ , thereby fixing in the public mind the link between voting and taxation . |
| 18 | Chateaubriand , who happened to be visiting Arenenberg was asked by the young author for his opinion of the work , and the great writer graciously suggested that it would be improved if , where the word ‘ people ’ occurred , the Prince were to replace it with ‘ nation ’ . |
| 19 | Beneath it all lay Khrushchev 's hostility to the ‘ cult of personality ’ , declared at the twentieth Congress and afterwards at the very time that Mao 's personality cult was endowing him with almost divine status . |
| 20 | One of the first tasks for reclaiming the garden was to surround it with a leylandii hedge . |
| 21 | We undressed and walked right through the shiny white-tiled shower room where a woman attendant was scrubbing someone with a loofah . |
| 22 | One practical problem was providing everyone with suitable places to work — in the end we allocated one of our conference rooms to them for the fortnight . ’ |
| 23 | Lazy-lidded grey eyes in a dark , chisel-chinned face were regarding her with an insulting trace of laughter somewhere in their depths . |
| 24 | Neoplasticism dispensed with all curvature while Cubism was contrasting it with straights . |