Example sentences of "it was [verb] [adv] with [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not specify , even to herself , the harm that might come to Alice , but it was bound up with love , with loving a man . |
| 2 | McKinsey said it was dealing directly with Information Consulting on the transaction but the latter would have to be relieved of an option owned by Saatchi before any definitive pact . |
| 3 | It was packed tightly with papers and … |
| 4 | Hitcham , furthermore , which contained only seven taxpayers , was so insignificant a place it was surveyed jointly with Dorney , and we can readily imagine the constable becoming confused and forgetting to insert the name of the juvenile lord of the smaller township ; anyone subsequently checking the certificate could be forgiven for failing to realise that the first line referred to the lord of Dorney only . |
| 5 | ‘ They tried to explain that it was only sand and it was all a stunt , but it was lit up with radioactivity signs and we take our environmental responsibilities very seriously . ’ |
| 6 | Eliot 's Waste Land that ‘ in England it was treated chiefly with indignation or contempt ’ , whereas in America The Dial had awarded the author its annual prize of $2,000 . |
| 7 | Cable & Wireless Plc says it is teaming up with said it was teaming up with Telstra International , the international arm of Telecom Australia , and Benpres of the Philippines , to conduct a feasibility study into forming a new company to expand the telephone service in the Philippines . |
| 8 | Already in Predynastic times they were using it to make beads , and throughout the Dynastic period it was employed together with lapis lazuli , carnelian and coloured glass to infill cloisonné work on jewellery , notably on the breast ornaments worn by Tutankhamun ( Plate I ) . |
| 9 | It was filled now with heaps of brick and stone . |
| 10 | Containing the headmistress 's books in large numbers , it was weighted heavily with books from the inter-war years . |
| 11 | Not that he had only supporters — for there were many who thought he was , and behaved like , a spoiled brat — but because Britain was thirsting for sporting heroes ( as it was to do again with Nigel Mansell a decade later ) and the British circuit should by rights have favoured his chances . |
| 12 | It has already been noted that some science students had made the choice between science and arts on the basis that it was easier to keep up with arts in one 's spare time than it was to keep up with science . |
| 13 | Although Cuvier himself made no use of the theological implications of this approach , it was taken up with enthusiasm by British exponents of the argument from design . |
| 14 | It was crowded too with holiday-makers on package tours , all eager to fling themselves on the nearest beach and sweat their way into a tan . |
| 15 | It was worked out with Richard Gough 18 months ago and is part of a two-year bonus agreement . |
| 16 | The weather was being at its most uncooperative — it was tippling down with rain when according to his forecast at briefing it should have cleared hours ago , and every single one of the navigators flying that night had been in to complain bitterly . |
| 17 | I think that is a lot of infection about and I know what brought on my cold , it was going out with Mark to Lathenham , and instead of wearing my anorak I only wore my lambs wool throw over , and I got jolly chilled coming out of the car and going into Lathenham church . |
| 18 | driveways , it was pouring down with rain one day so I was going up to meet her and we , I 'd got up there , I 've learnt now , I leave home at quarter past three if it 's raining |
| 19 | It was pouring down with rain though . |
| 20 | It was set up with funds from leading venture capitalists Schroders , Apax and 3i . |
| 21 | There were holes in the elbows and I must admit it had got so tatty that it was held together with nappy pins . |
| 22 | I used to work with an ex-BBC engineer who revelled in the fact that , in his day , Radio 3 , which was deemed by many hi-fi buffs as tonal nirvana , emanated from studios with ageing turntables and consoles , odd lengths of disparate signal cable were employed and much of it was held together with string and Sellotape . |
| 23 | Her own body felt as though it was burning up with fever , and she put out an unsteady hand to touch his face . |