Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv prt] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You said yesterday you were going along with the Irish |
| 2 | A former 3rd Farnham scout was heading off with the Falklands-bound Navy task force as one of the mechanics servicing the Harrier jump-jets aboard HMS Hermes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You had to make her feel she was coming up with the original idea . |
| 7 | The engine of the big mechanical monster was ticking over with the deep throb of impatient , reined-in horsepower . |