Example sentences of "was a [noun] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN I WAS a child , I was always at Wuthering Heights , because my mother was a servant with the Earnshaw family . |
| 2 | There had been an argument and the youths had overturned the ice-cream barrow , and after a chase there was a scuffle with the police . |
| 3 | There was a bell-push with the instruction : ‘ Please ring and wait ’ . |
| 4 | On the satin lining of the lid was a sticker with the maker 's name in old-fashioned twirls , P. J. Bellingham , and the Jermyn Street address . |
| 5 | The grandfather was a favourite with the neighbouring children too , ‘ a great one for stories ’ , and in the summer would sit them on a seat outside his door , ‘ not only his own grandchildren but other children about , listening to the tales he used to tell , about old Dumfries ’ : of the murderess Mary Timmony , for example , the last woman publicly hanged in Dumfries . |
| 6 | Henna , the vegetable colourant , was a favourite with the ancient Egyptians and is still popular today . |
| 7 | ‘ I was a favourite with the old ladies , as I used to save the brown eggs for them , ’ he said . |
| 8 | He was a favourite with the fans at Scarborough and is looking forward to the eight matches over the month . ’ |
| 9 | Everyone else was falling around but he was a wizard with the ball , a fabulous dribbler . |
| 10 | Michael Hardcastle was a hit with the pupils of St Michael 's and St Malachy 's even before he turned up yesterday . |
| 11 | Liz Spalding was a hit with the children , which was important to her ; if Weaver did not attack that night , then she might be a regular presence in the house over the next few days , and it was essential that she had the trust and co-operation of the kids as well as Jack and Chrissie Stone themselves . |
| 12 | And in next to no time he was a hit with the prizewinning youngsters . |
| 13 | Married life was a contrast with the experience of the bachelor living solitary amid echoing halls . |
| 14 | Central to this ‘ new consensus , was a concern with the complex and multi-layered nature of organizations which makes the very possibility of rational decision-making problematic . |
| 15 | She was a columnist with the Guangming Ribao ( The Enlightenment Daily ) , a ‘ quality ’ newspaper , and an editor of Donggang Jishi ( Chronicle of the East ) , a new journal about politics and literature . |
| 16 | She was a reporter with the City Press , and an occasional correspondent for the Star — a radical national daily . |
| 17 | A plumber greeted us upon arrival with news that there was a problem with the water supply ; but not to worry , he had arranged an alternative source — a pipe from the burn . |
| 18 | Cressey ( 1962 ) himself saw that the lack of specificity on the actual process of learning was a problem with the theory , but pointed out that Sutherland had left it open to clarification in the light of future developments in learning theory . |
| 19 | ERA presented all this evidence to Glasgow District Council who finally admitted that there was a problem with the housing stock but said they had not got the money to put things right . |
| 20 | Also the person who has helped us sort out maybe come to sensible engineering conclusion on the minor problem , but be saying to his chief , there was a problem with the York though I just managed to sort it out . |
| 21 | Erm there we there was a problem with the erm lexicon lexicon |
| 22 | This was a possibility with the Travelling Workshops Experiment which published a number of learning packages in various subject disciplines that included a variety of guides to the literature and guides to individual reference tools . |
| 23 | It was a conversation with the manager in his office that completed Goram 's transformation from outstanding prospect to the reliable goalkeeper now being spoken of as without peer in Britain . |
| 24 | Dave Thomas from Abingdon who was a cook with the RAF on Christmas Island has suffered illness all his life since that time . |
| 25 | When you wanted tea you could either have a pot of tea , or a ‘ cinema tea ’ , which was a pot of tea and a plate on which was a sandwich with the crusts cut off , which also represented something , and a cake . |
| 26 | In the last few years of his life William 's grandad had finally found employment in a growth industry — he was a volunteer with the Victims Support Scheme , and a lot of the mourners were people from the office , or victims of muggings and burglaries that he 'd helped to put on their feet again . |
| 27 | This year , there has been another problem affecting some people who applied through UCCA or PCAS ; it seems there was a fault with the new UCCA equipment which is used to process all applications through the central systems . |
| 28 | Blum , on the other hand , was looking to a more distant future when the French might have to withdraw entirely and in order to maintain the position of influence in the future he believed that the only firm foundation was a break with the past . |
| 29 | ‘ Doc was a bully with the players , he treated them like dirt , ’ claimed Crerand adding that several players disliked him so much they threatened to ‘ do ’ him . |
| 30 | On the wall which she had never seen because it was the one with the peephole in it was a shelf with the only small and personal thing in the room standing on it , a single , faded photograph in a black , badly fitting frame . |