Example sentences of "[vb past] [was/were] [verb] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He fled and fled , and every door he found was painted with the black plague cross and every face he pleaded with was tinged with the red of plague fever . |
| 2 | The strategy adopted was to begin with the best analysed corpus available when we started work ( Alvar Ellegard 's 128,000 word analysed subset of the Brown Corpus of American English ) , convert it into a format that could be used in practice , and improve and extend it in various ways . |
| 3 | He 'd was stationed with the Royal Army Medical Corps in Bosnia protecting the UN headquarters in Sarajevo . |
| 4 | During the 15 months I lived in New Jersey before my injury , just about everybody I knew was connected with the game . |
| 5 | In Sutcliffe v Thackrah [ 1974 ] AC 727 at 763D Lord Salmon explained the point as follows : In Re Hopper Cockburn CJ … was … saying that the question whether anyone was to be treated as an arbitrator depended on whether the role which he performed was invested with the characteristic attributes of the judicial role . |