Example sentences of "[indef pn] was [adj] with [pron] " in BNC.

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1 But the thing was nobody was impressed with him he was too much of er he was too good a speaker you know .
2 Everything was wrong with me .
3 Everything was wrong with him — he would n't always come to meetings and when he did he was ‘ difficult ’ .
4 Even though Carrie 's mother suspected something was different with her child , she was too caught up in her own religious world , that she did not do anything about Carrie 's obvious talent .
5 Stunned that he had n't known from the first moment that something was wrong with her .
6 Then it came to her that something was wrong with her horse .
7 A sensitive child , she could tell that something was wrong with her father … with everything .
8 Like Freya , I knew something was wrong with me precisely because my periods had n't come back , and weirder still ( I thought ) , I wanted them to .
9 Needless to say , no one had ever told me about the pain , and I became convinced that something was wrong with me , but I was too embarrassed to confess as much to anyone .
10 Something was wrong with me .
11 He was so certain something was wrong with him that the doctor had to arrange an appointment to shut him up .
12 The couple first noticed that something was wrong with him shortly after he was born in April 1989 .
13 Then suddenly in the darkness I knew something was wrong with him .
14 One was preoccupied with her son , veteran of the ski-rack encounter .
15 Cornelius observed that of the twenty-seven windows on the first floor , eight were open , with their blinds up , eight were closed with their blinds down , nine were closed , with their blinds up , one was open with its blind down and one was closed , had its blind halfway up and the light on .
16 Well they I I tell you this they they we 'd worked for him for er good many years and there was no talk of any cuts in wages , we had this wages all through the through these years , and everybody was happy with it .
17 Hopefully , I mean the grounds now are ooh , very muddy and awful , but the Duke himself , he was very pleased with it , he attended every day , I mean he had a very nice bowler hat , he was very pleased with it , everybody was happy with it ; it is Oxfordshire 's sporting showpiece without a doubt .
18 Soon the carvers were busy and the mound of teacakes began to go down , but not everyone was pleased with what they were given .
19 Everyone was pleased with your leadership in Hamburg and Neu-Isenburg . ’
20 Nothing was right with my game at all . ’
21 While at Northampton , he suffered a massive heart attack under the pressure of League management and yesterday recalled : ‘ I never had a hint that anything was wrong with me . ’
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