Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] with a [noun] on " in BNC.

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1 By supplementary help we refer to cases where either support worker help was provided temporarily , to relieve in unusual circumstances , or support workers were employed with a client on average no more than one hour a day , seven days a week .
2 Not only were the subjects told of what Dement thought might be the probable results of the regime , but they were provided with a psychiatrist on duty all the time to whom they could report any unusual sensation .
3 Lessons in personal hygiene and ablution were combined with a stress on class deference and a belief that ‘ fallen women ’ needed to re-learn their femininity through moralizing domestic labour .
4 Twenty minutes later the guest speaker , Alex Campbell ( Newcastle upon Tyne ) arrived ( his train had been delayed by over two hours ) and the audience was entertained with a lecture/demonstration on Instant fire .
5 Dismissing all but a single guard who was burdened with a lantern on a pole , he began to lead them by the bridges and passageways which cut across the streets in a way which was arguably more direct and certainly less likely to be barred by persistent celebrants .
6 The drive to assist in the development of education and training for Commerce and Industry in Eastern Europe was continued with a project on the outputs from different teaching methods in Hungary and further activity in Romania , Czechoslovakia , Poland , Russia and Slovenia .
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