Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [noun pl] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were also rejecting the Great American Dream that had gripped their post-war acquisitive parents , who were stocking their homes with every electric device provided in the Fifties consumer boom . |
| 2 | I felt as if someone was pressing my lungs with a steam-iron . |
| 3 | He was picking his teeth with a match while someone on the phone talked his ear off . |
| 4 | Not that she was destined to get any practice at such a mega-speed , since Downes , at least for the first half of the interview , was to enunciate his words with the slow deliberation of a stupefied zombie . |
| 5 | He looked helplessly at the adjutant , who was eating ; then at Woolley , who was cleaning his ears with a match stick ; and turned back . |
| 6 | Jeremiah was wearing his pin-stripes with the seat shiny from decades of polishing the council furniture with his bottom . |
| 7 | The dour , austere Miss Sowerby was wiping her eyes with a handkerchief she had tucked under a sleeve . |
| 8 | One month later , the young wife of a senior member of the Politburo was astonishing her friends with a necklace , earrings and bracelets of positively Tsarist splendour . |