Example sentences of "was [pron] with the " in BNC.

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1 Stuart Moore , prosecuting , said there was no-one with the families .
2 That is to say , there was someone with the responsibility for each operation accountable to ‘ somebody at the top ’ .
3 What he thought he needed was someone with the public fame to take over the leadership and to hold a candle to the great names of Lloyd George , Austen Chamberlain , Churchill , Birkenhead and Balfour .
4 But I was one with the solitaries of the spirit , too : with St Teresa and St John of the Cross as well as with humbler dissidents like Jordi and one or two other men of the working class I had known in Spain , the young bank clerk I had met in Cordoba the previous spring , among the orange and lilac blossom of Las Tendillas , where we walked and whispered , hardly daring to look at one another , and separating at the sight of police .
5 St Paul understood the distinctive heart of Christianity to lie in the historic facts of the gospel ; the Jesus of history was one with the Christ of his faith , who was also the eternal wisdom of God in creation .
6 He made no sound : he was one with the land .
7 That straightness of Time , that confining straightness , was one with the Western picture of setting the world to rights .
8 It was him with the beard cos they always said the Duke of Windsor took after him because he was
9 So pleased was he with the results , that he built his own house — the so-called Muscon — next door ( 475/5 ) around 1765 .
10 So obsessed was he with the details of administration that he saw nothing inappropriate , while Governor-General of Nigeria , in personally composing a memorandum on the issue of chamber pots to second-class administrative officers : he was , he said , against it .
11 So impressed was it with the Darlington operation that it also adopted the design of the questionnaire and the logo .
12 You did want to be able to go around all them works , what , what was it with the
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