Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] with [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its earliest history the building housed the guardian of the eastern gate , but it was taken over by the Fontana family and completely remodelled , a reshaping that was carried out with all the grace of Renaissance art . |
| 2 | It was filling up with more and more people . |
| 3 | Well I agree with that but I want to make a few points first of all , because poll tax was tangled up with this . |
| 4 | What the hell was going on with this place ? |
| 5 | I was going out with this guy called John Colley whose relations were sort of minor gangsters in London and I went to work for them because they did n't mind my not being English . |
| 6 | ( For instance , one veteran listed a pair of jogging shoes left behind on the islands among his painful memories : another recalled a letter he wrote to his girlfriend from the trenches , asking her to tell me the truth , if she did n't love me any more or was going out with another boy ’ . ) ’ |
| 7 | I had the odd George II and George III copper , but these were in the minority and it was the 17th century coinage that was popping up with some regularity . |
| 8 | There was little public knowledge of the extent to which intelligence tests had already become part of the machinery of secondary selection by 1940 , nor how far their use was tied in with that of standardised tests of attainment in English and arithmetic , which were provided , marked and correlated by the same person or organisation . |
| 9 | Her husband , who had put up with a great deal , and was to put up with much more , was not yet prepared to lose his marital rights . |
| 10 | We skirted the now-notorious refreshment hut , which was marked off with those fluorescent orange ribbons that usually signal a particularly nasty accident , and which was now guarded by two policemen . |
| 11 | She was wearing a green school coat that was too big for her , so that her little pink hands stuck out all chubby from the sleeves , and she was weighed down with all sorts of rubbish — a shiny brown leather satchel , and a shoe-bag with a bunch of roses embroidered on it , and a hockey-stick . |
| 12 | I did n't twig at the time but really she just wanted to hang out in the shop and she was coming up with any old excuse she could find to be in there . |
| 13 | The waiter was coming by with more glasses of champagne . |
| 14 | His replacement , Ignacio Morales Lechuga , opened up an immediate investigation into the running of the Matamoros prison , whose prison governor was arrested along with several of his officials . |
| 15 | And I would have said , Ray , please I was brought up with this , and it 's vulgar to discuss money over the telephone , erm , you know do n't dream of paying me anything , I 'm just ever so grateful for the opportunity . |
| 16 | The son of a stockbroker and part of a large and easy-going family , James was brought up with more options than most . |
| 17 | At that time he owned supply wagons contracted to the army and he was at Fort Thomas when this boy who was called Ish-kay-nay was brought in with some prisoners . |
| 18 | The war came , she was swept up with many others by the Germans and ended up in Ravensbrück concentration camp . |
| 19 | The editor was detained along with another Kambona brother , Mattiya , and Ulimwengu never appeared again . |
| 20 | Stripped of DUP backing , former Bushmills councillor James Rodgers , was eliminated along with former council colleagues Michael O'Cleary and Joe Mitchell , of the SDLP . |
| 21 | She was carrying on with some lawyer . ’ |
| 22 | The room where the four senior and four junior counsel from Edinburgh would work was fitted out with several very basic trestle tables , not perhaps quite what members of the Faculty of Advocates are used to working on , but Alistair Bruce described them as very resilient people . |
| 23 | It could still be modified for use , provided it was backed up with some new , stronger coercion . |