Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [v-ing] with [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You 're still working with your pirate kit then ? ’
2 Having come this great distance to intercede for her father , she now seemed instead to be constantly arguing with his shade .
3 ‘ I 'm still struggling with my driver but I 'm hitting my one-iron plenty far enough and putting quite well , ’ he said .
4 They were mostly sympathising with her loss of form and her problems .
5 The children were apprehensive , none more so than the newcomers who were still struggling with their English and were generally mystified by events .
6 ‘ Maybe he 's just staying with his mother until he finds a place of his own . ’
7 She 's just pointing with her finger .
8 Everything focuses on the fact that he is always struggling with his desire for love and power as well as for an end to all his problems .
9 DUNCAN Bond , the 13-year-old son of Springfields site visits officer , Eric , is still competing with his father for possession of a coloured sticker representing the flight of the Atlantis space shuttle .
10 I get pigeon-holed as the vulnerable bloke who 's crap at relationships and who 's always arguing with his dad .
11 She 's still living with her mother .
12 He is also dealing with our insistence on historically specific analysis .
13 She is now living with his family in Grayswood , Surrey , until her future is sorted out .
14 On the merits of sending a US peace envoy to Northern Ireland , Mr Paisley said in the letter : ‘ The vicious plan of blackmail which Albert Reynolds is now employing with his threat of getting the USA to appoint an envoy will be resisted by the majority unionist community .
15 Nevertheless , he is currently working with his mother on outlines for two documentaries , one on the psychology of dance and another on the pre-Christian origins of Christmas .
16 Yesterday , as they had chatted , the model had been continually fussing with her mane of black curls , or admiring her long finger nails , or smoothing down the skirt of her grey suede suit .
17 He was attached to his mother , but she died in 1926 , while Nasser was away living with his uncle in Cairo .
18 ‘ Karel played a good match but I was always struggling with my timing .
19 At a party at 9 Apollo Place , Norman Bowler had spent much of the evening dancing with Henrietta Law who was still living with her husband Michael in Kensington though their marriage was by then over .
20 For Melanie , at fifteen , it had been her first sexual relationship , she now had a baby daughter and was still living with her family .
21 But Chaman was very protective and supportive ; it was as if I was still living with my mother . ’
22 He afforded himself a quick glance at Plummer , who was still struggling with his spaghetti .
23 Ardamal just beat Kreig out of the door , while Dommer was still fumbling with his flamer .
24 ‘ You did n't care that Garry was still sleeping with his wife when he was supposed to be in love with you ? ’
25 She was still sitting with her head partly averted , so her face was hidden .
26 It seemed bizarre to select a washing machine and an electric cooker for the use of some prospective young maid who was still sitting with her family in a Karachi or Lahore back street .
27 Keeping its eye on what HP was up to with its latest Snake , see page three , Sun was still dickering with its pricing schedule at the eleventh hour last week .
28 A business student at Jordanstown , Julieanne said she loved every minute of the work but that she was glad she was also continuing with her education .
29 Her own mother was now living with her son who had married a Polish girl from Hoboken .
30 He had known the writer Hope Mirrlees for some years , at first through her friendship with the Woolfs ( the Hogarth Press had published her long poem , Paris , three years before The Waste Land ) , and she was now living with her mother and spinster aunt .
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