Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adj] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I became involved with the Union ( ACTTS ) when an Equal Opportunities Policy Working Party was set up by them in 1984 . |
| 2 | I became involved with the inhabitants as soon as I was old enough to overturn a leaf . |
| 3 | Living in San'a , I was initially engrossed in the visual aspects of the architecture , but as I became involved with the Yemeni families , I started to record as accurately as possible all aspects of the traditional San'a culture that was rapidly being swallowed up by Western influence . |
| 4 | I have always loved dogs and I became involved with the association when I met a lady who was also involved in puppy training . |
| 5 | I became friendly with the woman in charge , a vast and haughty person who answered to the sobriquet Duchesse . |
| 6 | I became obsessed with the whole idea and spent an enormous amount of time researching it . |
| 7 | So I got involved with the Lionisers to do just that . ’ |
| 8 | Well I 've never got particularly involved with this school , I got involved with the other schools |
| 9 | When I got level with the Bunker I banked inland , slowing as I hit the soft white sand further up the beach . |
| 10 | When he 'd gone , I got busy with the eggs and toast . |
| 11 | I got busy with the hammer , whistling away , and before long Joe too was lost in the mechanics of it all . |
| 12 | But she turned to let me undo it and I got impatient with the damn thing . |
| 13 | I turned off the road when I drew level with the Brigadier and his Officers , and placed myself on the right of Mills Roberts as the Brigade swept past to the tune Highland Laddie . |
| 14 | As I drew level with the back of the farm , I could see Jenkins remonstrating with Cawthorne and Waters . |
| 15 | In the first place I felt uneasy with the talk about Apaches and John Russell sitting there . |
| 16 | I stood ready with the boat-hook to make sure we did n't bump against the rocks of the mooring . |
| 17 | You became obsessed with the opening of gates into the heart of the forest . |
| 18 | We know very well that during your time in Glasgow you became familiar with the secret and unlawful society styling itself the ‘ United Scotsmen ’ . |
| 19 | You 've rather neglected them since you became involved with the Season . ’ |
| 20 | But , in the summerhouse , she became dissatisfied with the slow growth of clay . |
| 21 | A member of the WRVS for over 30 years , previously working on a hospital tea bar in Woolwich , she became involved with the court operation when she and her husband first moved to Hampshire . |
| 22 | By the early 1640s she had moved to London and begun a religious quest in pursuit of whose ends she became involved with the first Quakers in 1654 . |
| 23 | She became bored with the paths and sat on a bench with a book , but Magnus came and sat underneath , waiting for her to move on . |
| 24 | Which was how she came face-to-face with the phenomenon of the two Waynes . |
| 25 | She came level with the cat , stretched out her hand , and the cat sniffed her . |
| 26 | She seemed pleased with the room . |
| 27 | Often she fell asleep with the candle still alight . |
| 28 | A few weeks later she fell ill with the ovarian cyst , but the picture was now Lycopodium . |
| 29 | Either side of the Refuge , time closed in , with meetings , the children to be looked after , books to be read , until she felt light-headed with the sense of not coming to grips with anything , of being forced to spin like a top . |
| 30 | She felt giddy with the first intake of smoke , but suddenly saw how to make a whole of the face . |