Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] [v-ing] with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He noted his reading and his earnings : ‘ Thoreau I am now reading with interest and pleasure . |
| 2 | On the other hand , if you only use the present tense — ‘ I am now bursting with health ’ , while you have raging ‘ flu — your subconscious might believe this is your idea of good health , and do nothing ! |
| 3 | I was practically screaming with frustration . |
| 4 | I was grateful to him because I was really shaking with fear , so much so that poor Dawn could hardly sit up straight on my hand . |
| 5 | I was still weeping with fright when Uncle Bill put me to bed . |
| 6 | I was still brimming with plangency , chockful of feeling , when I arrived back at the hotel . |
| 7 | The sweat was dripping from her face on to her breasts which were already glistening with water like orb-shaped fruit in the rain . |
| 8 | One cold evening , Seb returned from the cottage to Handley Farm along lanes , the banks of which were already glistening with frost . |
| 9 | Commission members and Brendan McKeague , the Development Worker , have recently journeyed around the diocese to meet with groups and individuals who are currently working with poverty and the poor in their own areas or further afield . |
| 10 | If you are just starting with video , or even if you think you 're very familiar with it , try running through some of these familiarisation routines : |
| 11 | A : You are both playing with fire and , although so far your clandestine relationship has been fairly innocent , if it develops any further , your daughter could stumble on the truth at any time . |
| 12 | This is what , out of consideration for me , you are now surrounding with talk about whether and how and why . |
| 13 | ‘ You outrageous dyke , you 're just oozing with lust ! ’ he said . |
| 14 | You 'll work until you 're literally dropping with tiredness . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , so far she 's just sketching with pencil or Conte stick . ’ |
| 16 | Every bride looks beautiful — this is partly because of what she is wearing and partly because she is usually glowing with happiness . |
| 17 | It was not a problem that had ever occurred before , and although Ellie knew she was probably playing with fire she was intrigued to know how it would all turn out . |
| 18 | She was practically trembling with outrage . |
| 19 | She was practically gibbering with outrage . |
| 20 | She was positively trembling with rage , and she could feel her nails piercing into the flesh of her arm . |
| 21 | She was already sweating with exertion . |
| 22 | She was still shivering with indignation , but when she looked up at her grandmother , it was to see her shivering too , but with suppressed laughter . |
| 23 | She was still tingling with pleasure and her cheeks burned when she realised that if he came back he could just take up where he had left off and she would not do a thing to stop him . |
| 24 | The word shot from her swollen lips ; she was still reeling with shock . |
| 25 | He had been fiercely possessive , racked by an agony of passionate wanting and yet somehow retaining sufficient control to assert his mastery , denying her fulfilment , waiting until she was almost weeping with desire , as if he needed to hear her husky throbbing pleas confirming his dominion in the relationship . |
| 26 | She was almost crying with rage . |
| 27 | She was almost choking with despair , seeing that none of this was making a whisker of difference . |
| 28 | But she was almost choking with emotion . |
| 29 | Sooty turned to Yanto , who was already grinning with anticipation . |
| 30 | ‘ We are still struggling with child sexual abuse and we are still trying to get it right from the child 's point of view . |