Example sentences of "was with [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 One minute there he was with a few scraps of grey hair plastered across his scalp — the next he looks like a prizewinner at Cruft 's Dog Show .
2 For the next 2000 years the abstract/axiomatic approach was with a few exceptions replaced by a more concrete intuitive approach .
3 So it was with the other hostages .
4 That confrontation was none of Sharpe 's business ; his concern was with the two horsemen who now faced him in the wood.They glanced past Sharpe , judging how best to rejoin their comrades , though it was clear they wanted Sharpe 's life first .
5 In 1981 the concern was with the economic costs of control , with cutting public expenditure and with ‘ freeing ’ private initiative from unnecessary governmental controls .
6 But the way he did it was with the same connections he defied , and to get into serious racing in his early days , he got a bank to give him credit and a sponsor to give him some backing : though he had n't , of his own , a sou in the world .
7 The obvious place to start was with the known agitators and trouble-makers .
8 I could n't caddie for him because I was with the central-heating men .
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