Example sentences of "[pron] was [v-ing] [adv prt] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I just ask a question to start with because I was messing around with the camera and was it that he ha that he had no private pension policies at all ? |
| 2 | That 's why I was messing about with the . |
| 3 | I was walking around with a camera and binoculars right on top of their nuclear silos . |
| 4 | By the time I was eight-years-old I was going around with a prostitute . |
| 5 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 6 | Here I am eighteen years old , and in a great state of elation because I was going out with a boy . |
| 7 | Unlike Michelle in Eastenders , my situation was quite different as I was going out with the father of my son . |
| 8 | Pat rung up and wanted me to fetch the dressing table on Tuesday night I said yeah alright I 'll do Wednes but I forgot I was going out with the girls Wednesday so I went out Tuesday and she would n't let me have it , cos Tuesdays they 're not working in the kitchen |
| 9 | ‘ Dave thought someone was running around with a neighbour 's wife ’ said Alice quietly . |
| 10 | She was hanging around with a bunch of amateurs in Hell . |
| 11 | Earlier she had come down in this lift with Steve and now she was going up with the last person on earth she could have envisaged . |
| 12 | She was going out with a friend of mine , but she came on so strong that she frightened him off . |
| 13 | He knew , because in a town the size of Plumford everybody knew these things , that Hubert Molland had been given a combined parish a few miles outside Plumford , and that the Mollands were now living in Champney Crucis ; he knew that Kate had left school and was now doing something at the technical college ; and , more importantly , he had heard from Joe that she was going out with the local MP 's youngest son , whose name was Julian and who drove a Triumph Spitfire . |
| 14 | By this time Angie had entered his life and she was going off with the ladies and he was going off with the boys — and that 's the way it was . ’ |
| 15 | He noticed that she was puffing along with a glass held before her in both hands — he could smell whisky . |
| 16 | You had to make her feel she was coming up with the original idea . |
| 17 | And I even noticed that she she was coming out with the thees and thous that that erm |
| 18 | She must have had a posting , or else obtained her demob while I was still at Binbrook , because I have a distinct memory of Sheila hammering nails into this crate before despatching it to her new destination , and scornfully refusing all help from J. , who was standing by with the hammer and nails . |
| 19 | The Collector nodded to Ford who was standing by with the portfire . |
| 20 | I thought that was the mate who was going out with the blonde you know . |
| 21 | It was Michelle who was coming around with the baby . |
| 22 | He was slapping about with a dustpan and brush , getting up the worst of the spilled coffee and other foods . |
| 23 | He was looking round with a vacant look on his face and I was frightened . |
| 24 | She sensed that he was holding back with a massive effort , suppressing his own hunger with iron discipline . |
| 25 | Now if he did n't shave his hair off and he was walking around with a rim round the side of his head |
| 26 | So he he 's been up he 's one of type of dogs , he said like a human you would n't know if he went in the house they would n't know whether he was coming out with a double barrelled shot gun to shoot yourself or |
| 27 | Creech Jones , the Colonial Secretary , had been a champion of colonial causes before he took office : now he was falling in with the policies of powerful officials like Sir Andrew Cohen . |
| 28 | He was going out with a silly cow of an art student and she lent him the book . |
| 29 | My mother says he did n't train enough because he was going out with a girl called Ticky Hinton . |
| 30 | By this time Angie had entered his life and she was going off with the ladies and he was going off with the boys — and that 's the way it was . ’ |