Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [pron] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was cleaning , cleaning it up and of course I was tapping it with a hammer was n't I to try and get all the putty you know , try and break the putty and most of it came away and I just tapped this one little |
| 2 | Miranda felt a melting and tickling inside her stomach as if someone was stroking it with a feather . |
| 3 | She had £8,000 in the Gibraltar fund , a substantial slice of which was providing her with a monthly income . |
| 4 | If you were to compare it with a really accurate map there would be very little in common but the map achieves its aim successfully through massive simplification and artificial emphasis of the important features , in this case the stations and interchanges . |
| 5 | If you were to touch him with a pin — and he 's a boy or a girl by now — he 'd move away , he feels pain . |
| 6 | And it would be nice if you were to provide her with a little brother or sister . ’ |
| 7 | When I turned to close the door behind me she was watching me with a faint smile . |
| 8 | She never knew how to make it come out sounding as if she was spelling it with a little ‘ m ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ The first time I met Samantha , ’ Bob says , ‘ I 'll never forget this , she was surrounded by these six guys and she was funking herself with a vibrator . |
| 10 | His excitement meant nothing to her ; she felt she was covering him with a pall of ash . |
| 11 | He turned towards Sylvia Toye , who was watching him with a smile on her face . |
| 12 | Living alone with an Aunt Louise who was acting someone with a grievance might , I thought , be rather difficult . ) |
| 13 | Cos they were replacing it with a radial , they 're transferred that stock onto the other end product number . |
| 14 | If he were to read it with a less selective eye , he would benefit considerably . |
| 15 | When she looked back at Petion , she saw that he was watching her with a sympathetic expression . |
| 16 | He was watching her with a glint of amusement in those remarkable eyes . |
| 17 | His voice was low , and she glanced up and saw that he was watching her with a strange kind of intensity . |
| 18 | With a puzzled lift of her head she found he was watching her with a faraway expression in his eyes . |
| 19 | He was watching her with a strange look on his face , half amusement , half something else , and she felt herself bristle . |
| 20 | And then , almost at once , his iron control seemed to snap , and he was kissing her with a frenzied , pent-up , impatient longing that was totally beyond anything she 'd ever experienced before . |
| 21 | Looking impossibly handsome in his formal wedding clothes , he was surveying her with a fierce intensity that not only made her blush furiously , but caused her pulses to race almost out of control . |
| 22 | ‘ Especially if he was doing it with a few friends . ’ |
| 23 | The only thing wrong was he was washing them with a hundred octane gasoline , he had a gasoline engine firing exhaust underneath it and he was parked among all our gas trucks . |
| 24 | She wondered if he was saying it with a question in his voice , testing her response . |