Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The year 1973 came close to repeating the triumphs of 1972 but , as usual in FI , other cars were catching up with the Lotus , though not in qualifying , for 1973 was the year in which Ronnie Peterson notched an astonishing nine pole positions and a place on the front row in twelve of the season 's fifteen races , as against one and five for Emerson , Peterson finishing a mere three points behind Fittipaldi . |
| 2 | Oh yes we the boys were taught along with the girls , yes we were , we were all on , just in the one room . |
| 3 | Subsequent measurements were carried out with the 76-m Lovell telescope at frequencies between 408MHz and 1,660 MHz . |
| 4 | Instead , studies were carried out with the focus now on the listener rather than the speaker . |
| 5 | Furthermore , no alteration of the protein pattern in the electrophoresis was observed when the competitions were carried out with the mutated oligonucleotides ( results not shown ) , demonstrating that the binding of the proteins to the oligonucleotide was specific . |
| 6 | In the meantime , they were pressing on with the task of handing leaflets to anyone prepared to take one , and taking limited encouragement from the presence of a junior Labour front-bencher , Kate Hoey , at their conference fringe meeting . |
| 7 | They were wedged in with the patient herd of people who were shuffling slowly and quietly up the stairs to the foyer , but Mark talked in a clear , excited voice , as if oblivious of their presence . |
| 8 | We complained to Malcolm , told him we were fed up with the mice and we did n't have enough money to eat properly . |
| 9 | We were fed up with the sexism in self-organized disability movements and even more fed up with the ableism of the women 's movement . |
| 10 | National associations , like the British Boxing Board of Control , were fed up with the mobsters — so fed up that they were willing to pay an affiliation fee to one or both of these new bodies to gain the right to submit the names of boxers they licensed for title fights sanctioned by the WBA and the WBC . |
| 11 | And , despite what the media claimed , Reagan was not elected because people were fed up with the huge federal deficit and were clamoring for budget cuts … . |
| 12 | With all the bad publicity , one might think Americans were fed up with the NEA . |
| 13 | I think people were fed up with the strikes Larry . |
| 14 | Much as I admire a great deal of Ken Worpole 's contributions to discussion on alternative methods of arts funding — his and Geoff Mulgan 's ‘ Saturday Night , Sunday Morning ’ was an invaluable piece of work — his thoughts ( almost gleeful I thought ) on the problems of civic buildings ( MT May ) were shot through with the baby-out-with-the-bathwater conclusions which seem to be endemic in much new times and new Left thinking on the arts generally . |
| 15 | The train sets were made up with the following types of coaches : |
| 16 | Solutions of 100 mM drug in PBS/10% FCS were made up with the concentration of NaCl reduced to maintain osmolality . |
| 17 | Having worked out the general layout , the main outlines of the plants and substrates and so on were drawn in with the washes of the appropriate colours . |
| 18 | ‘ All the people waiting at the bus stops were shrivelled up with the cold ; they looked so miserable standing there but cheered up when they saw us coming along . |
| 19 | Mr Haydn Cook , chief executive of the Friarage , said negotiations were going on with the Scorton hospital about its contract for the forthcoming year . |
| 20 | You said yesterday you were going along with the Irish |
| 21 | ‘ I was asking , Preston , how you were getting on with the Devil . ’ |
| 22 | We do not send you copies of every letter we write , minutes of every meeting we attend , etc because we assumed you would realise we were getting on with the job . |
| 23 | The institutions of Roman civil law were bound up with the rigid observance of strict form ; trusts were not , the textbooks say . |
| 24 | Relations between Japan and the USA were bound up with the Gulf crisis [ see above ] , with the USA appearing to want greater financial assistance from Japan ( both for the Gulf operation and for the upkeep of US forces stationed in Japan ) while also seeming unenthusiastic about the prospects of Japan actually deploying forces abroad in any capacity . |
| 25 | What I am getting at is that , in these historical cases , egalitarian ideas were tied in with the presumption that the proposition " all men are born equal " can be glossed " all men ( who are people like us ) are born equal " . |
| 26 | Of course , that sort of thing has a really limited audience and , because we were living in Hawaii , there was nobody there to watch us anyway , so we were coming up with the most insane stuff we could do , basically just to please ourselves ! |
| 27 | These services were brought in with the May 1983 timetable to improve the range the Trans–Pennine trains on offer . |
| 28 | One of the one of the difficulties is that that that theatres up and down the country have faced over the last two years of the new target that were brought in with the eighty eight education act where schools were not allowed to make a charge it could only be a voluntary contribution now the council of Great Britain have looked at this it 's a problem cos of this decimated schools audiences . |
| 29 | Thus , with a rate of inflation averaging 4% in the 1980s , the £58 licence fee set in 1985 would have had to increase by £7 by 1988 if it were to keep up with the increase in the general price level only . |
| 30 | And the entire staff and management committee at Monte Samana were bubbling over with the news that old Mrs Richards had a boyfriend . |