Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] [noun] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a few weeks Richard was loading Marshal with honours , lands and responsibility and an incident such as this , combining skill at arms with sound political common sense , could well have impressed him . |
| 2 | There was a scene in which Ken was playing chess with Andrew Ray . |
| 3 | At the point , in July 1978 , when the Council agreed in principle to create a Committee for Scotland , the CNAA was validating courses with a total enrolment of approaching 9000 students at thirteen Scottish institutions . |
| 4 | Jeffrey was refused help with the prescription for his inhaler because the Department of Health said his income exceeded the required level . |
| 5 | By mid-1991 Denmark was nearing agreement with Sweden on a long-standing plan to bridge the Öresund straits which divided the two countries [ see p. 38402 ] . |
| 6 | * The UKAEA was fined £8,000 with £10,500 costs after the exposure of workers at the Harwell nuclear laboratory to radiation . |
| 7 | In 1964 , while Finch was filming Girl With Green Eyes in Dublin , the two Peters found themselves being refused drinks in a pub at Bray because it was after hours . |
| 8 | One evening a few weeks later , Matilda was having tea with Miss Honey in the kitchen of The Red House after school as they always did , when Matilda said suddenly , ‘ Something strange has happened to me , Miss Honey . ’ |
| 9 | The shy young visitor was soon disputing with Wordsworth almost on equal terms ; and next evening , while Coleridge was providing Dorothy with superfluous explanations about the different notes of the nightingale , Hazlitt and Wordsworth ‘ got into a metaphysical argument ’ which may have inspired two of the most genial of the Lyrical Ballads — ‘ Expostulation and Reply ’ , and ‘ The Tables Turned ’ , both of them written ‘ in front of the house at Alfoxden ’ . |
| 10 | At the same time that Coleridge was discussing Hartley with Wordsworth he was also constantly urging him to write ‘ a philosophic poem ’ — ‘ No man was ever yet a great poet without being at the same time a profound philosopher ’ . |
| 11 | Ivor Newley was having dinner with Tolby that night — you remember ? |
| 12 | This was in The Little Review for May 1919 , where Williams was taking issue with praise of Eliot by one of Pound 's British friends , Edgar Jepson ; but Williams 's hostility to British culture ran deeper than that , and was to be a permanent feature of his outlook . |
| 13 | Clearly Clovis was currying favour with the catholic clergy at the start of the Visigothic war ; that is not to say that the war was a crusade , nor is it to say that the king had already been baptized . |
| 14 | Widnes coach Phil Larder said : ‘ Julian was playing darts with a young lad in his digs but one went through his finger . ’ |
| 15 | Mr William Coulter was appointed Captain with Mr Kenneth Twyble as Lieutenant . |
| 16 | Before a concert in Manchester on the ‘ Bizarro ’ tour , Gedge was holding court with about six fanzine editors while Solowka sat just outside the circle , counting out huge wads of money from a leather briefcase . |
| 17 | On a day when Mr Kinnock was storming Southampton with helicopter and balloons , Prof Plant was quietly having lunch at home after a visit to his department . |
| 18 | On a day when Mr Kinnock was storming Southampton with helicopter and balloons , Prof Plant was quietly having lunch at home after a visit to his department . |
| 19 | President and congressional elections were held in December 1988 , when Pérez was elected President with 53 per cent of the vote ; the AD lost its overall majority but remained the largest party in both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate [ see p. 36423 ] . |
| 20 | In other words , Bukharin was positing disequilibrium with positive indications for the Soviet economy , and negative indications for the capitalist economies . |
| 21 | But there can be no doubt or question that , in Oxford in the late sixties , Clinton was keeping company with many who were enthusiastically breaking the laws of their own country . |
| 22 | One of Endill 's favourite pastimes with the Bookman was making things with him . |
| 23 | At the end of the visit it was announced that Japan was to provide Mongolia with US$15,000,000 in grants and $100 million in export guarantees . |
| 24 | Charles was to play tennis with Ann and she was to let him know when she was feeling upset . |
| 25 | Dog agility appeals to all ages … although seven year old Daniel Treagus was having trouble with his Cavalier King Charles spaniel which refused to climb the A frame : |
| 26 | A few days after lovingly comparing his wife to a Bavarian cow , he issued divorce proceedings because Ilona was playing footsy with the Italian Love party , a coalition of pornographers — ‘ terrible men , like pimps , ’ Koons told me — seeking publicity for their tawdry wares . |
| 27 | I gathered that her parents had seen only that Laura was losing touch with reality . |
| 28 | Hacking his way through the forest with a Japanese ceremonial sword , he had emerged into a clearing where G. F. Westerby was playing cricket with Mr Cottle . |
| 29 | Rogers was having trouble with his gun . |
| 30 | Presidential and legislative elections were held in February 1990 , when Caldéron was elected President with 51 per cent of the vote , and the PUSC won an absolute majority , gaining 29 of the 57 seats in the Legislative Assembly [ see p. 37243 ] . |