Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [pron] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 MILLWALL defender Colin Cooper showed why Nottingham Forest have been pursuing him with a fine display in their 2–1 win at DERBY .
2 He 'd just been amusing himself with a new challenge , the new blonde female who 'd temporarily appeared in his life …
3 With chains and gags and — dirt — This week , ever so efficiently filing records for this surgeon , I just happened to come across a sixteen-year-old who had his leg off last year — they 're fitting him with an artificial one , it takes months , they 're incredibly slow — and it 's started up for certain now in his other leg , he does n't know , but I know , I know lots of things .
4 But we hope so , but I do n't I 'm not facetious enough to think that I can change a personality in a person , but what we 're trying to do is make him feel a loving and a commitment , that we are providing him with the best we can .
5 Meanwhile , back at the ivory tower , lobby groups are busying themselves with the legal questions while waiting to get the big question answered ( i.e. why do people do it ? ) .
6 for not only was the Earl Patrick suspicious of anyone coming from the regency , but he happened at this juncture to be consoling himself with a local lady , in the absence of marital comforts .
7 It was also , in his view , unpardonable on grounds of principle , since by the autumn of 1940 Vichy seemed to be aligning itself with the foreign policy of the Nazi regime and aspects of its political ideology .
8 ‘ Now I 'm in the side , I 'm running into these superstars and thinking I 'm only a young boy , but I 'm mixing it with the best .
9 So , although this perspective still has much to teach us , we shall subsequently be combining it with the broader explanations offered by later urban social theorists .
10 Erm , well , I assume you mean out of recent Leeds United players ( you ca n't seriously be comparing him with the real greats of football can you ? ) . he could certainly hit it , and sometimes goal-bound ( and quite often into the wall or behind for a goal kick ) .
11 Cos they were replacing it with a radial , they 're transferred that stock onto the other end product number .
12 Talk was intense among the youngsters , and the young actors and actresses roaming Sunset Strip were no different to the youth of America , if not the world , in that they too were a disoriented bunch in search of idols ; Clift , Brando and Dean were providing them with a whole new repertoire of sayings , postures , stances and gestures .
13 Lazy-lidded grey eyes in a dark , chisel-chinned face were regarding her with an insulting trace of laughter somewhere in their depths .
14 She glared up , aware of the slight change in his tone , and saw that his eyes were scouring hers with a strange kind of intensity .
15 I note that , yet again , the Liberal party is aligning itself with the Labour party on social and taxation matters .
16 Mr Pizzi is replacing them with a main circular space with a two storey-colonnaded façade .
17 There 's one scene of four minutes where every third or fourth sentence is ‘ What about the cases ? ’ , referring to what Rita 's character was going to do with her baggage , and it changes so that each person is saying it with a different meaning .
18 She was helping me with the french .
19 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 .
20 She never knew how to make it come out sounding as if she was spelling it with a little ‘ m ’ .
21 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 .
22 It was all she was capable of saying for quite some time , for he had captured her lips again and was kissing her with a deeper intensity .
23 She had £8,000 in the Gibraltar fund , a substantial slice of which was providing her with a monthly income .
24 He was threatening them with an extraordinary general meeting of the club .
25 ‘ Especially if he was doing it with a few friends . ’
26 Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with the great reluctance .
27 If he was still amusing himself , thought Cadfael , he was doing it with the eloquent dignity of archbishops and all the king 's judges .
28 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 .
29 When I turned to close the door behind me she was watching me with a faint smile .
30 Her eyes were adjusting to the darkness , and now she could see that he had folded his arms over the enticing broadness of his chest and was watching her with a challenging glitter in his eyes .
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