Example sentences of "was with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Siegfried , I do n't know what you 'll think , but I 've been recommended for the MC — and I 've recommended every single NCO who was with me . |
| 2 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 3 | You must have seen how struck he was with her . |
| 4 | Cissy was with them now . |
| 5 | All my efforts were concentrated on keeping up appearances during those two hours of the day when I was with them . |
| 6 | I was with someone , was n't I ? |
| 7 | One was exceptionally heavy , laden as it was with all manner of climbing ironmongery , wire brushes and ropes . |
| 8 | His early infatuation was with motor-cycles , and he was a successful trials rider . |
| 9 | When Sinitta was with David Essex , her Mutiny on The Bounty costar , he presented her with Fletch , a Cairn Terrier named after Fletcher Christian , the character he played in the show . |
| 10 | Like Terry Venables calling for a pre-match arsenic , the old trouper knows that the best way to disarm your critics is to make ‘ em laugh , but the joke has been wearing a bit thin , and it was with some relief that he swopped his sheepish smile for a satisfied one . |
| 11 | The commercial settlement was with the South Western Regional Health Authority and concerned an alkali silica reaction — concrete cancer — in the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital . |
| 12 | And it was with a certain indifference that , six minutes later , Chelsea hoisted a long ball under which Kerry Dixon loitered . |
| 13 | Jahangir 's irritation was with the refereeing which , he reckoned , had hindered him throughout the tournament and yesterday he said it ‘ made it hard for me to catch up a couple of points ’ . |
| 14 | His most notable was with the merchant banker Sir Philip Shelbourne . |
| 15 | Another Kurd who was with him , Halil Guzel , won no reprieve and was put on a flight to Istanbul . |
| 16 | ( One of the few times we missed out was with a 200lb sturgeon caught in the North Sea . |
| 17 | This is indicative of how the development of local knowledge is seen by the neighbourhood men as a key measure of their competence and effectiveness , as it was with the section police . |
| 18 | Taff was with the 3″ mortar team as they continued to send over the occasional mortar bomb , their target a crossroads at the other end of the village . |
| 19 | Mark escaped unscathed thanks to a fast-talking Indonesian who was with him on the expedition . |
| 20 | The chaplain of King 's College , whose work was with undergraduates , came to teach divinity to the day-boys , among whom was the little Ramsey , before breakfast on two days in the week . |
| 21 | And so it was with the Notting Hill Gate Classic cinema around 1969 . |
| 22 | I remember nothing about who I was with or what the films were , I remember only the interval . |
| 23 | So it was with some surprise a few years ago that our attention was drawn from the dull French film noir onscreen to the back of the cinema , where a couple were resolving a lovers ' squabble . |
| 24 | The biggest impact Bowie had on me was with his haircut . |
| 25 | There had been no agreement on the main issues of contention , but ( aside from Canada ) the Empire was with Britain , he said . |
| 26 | But it was with a very clear purpose . |
| 27 | McQuaid was a drunken blackguard who was with me in the war . |
| 28 | She did n't care where she went or what she saw as long as he was pleased and she was with him . |
| 29 | By then every muscle ached , and it was with deep gratitude that they turned at last to drag their feet towards the house . |
| 30 | Our only problem was with the doubling up . |