Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [pers pn] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Cos they were replacing it with a radial , they 're transferred that stock onto the other end product number . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Lazy-lidded grey eyes in a dark , chisel-chinned face were regarding her with an insulting trace of laughter somewhere in their depths . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mr Pizzi is replacing them with a main circular space with a two storey-colonnaded façade . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She was helping me with the french . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She never knew how to make it come out sounding as if she was spelling it with a little ‘ m ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She had £8,000 in the Gibraltar fund , a substantial slice of which was providing her with a monthly income . |
| 19 | He was threatening them with an extraordinary general meeting of the club . |
| 20 | ‘ Especially if he was doing it with a few friends . ’ |
| 21 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with the great reluctance . |
| 22 | If he was still amusing himself , thought Cadfael , he was doing it with the eloquent dignity of archbishops and all the king 's judges . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | When I turned to close the door behind me she was watching me with a faint smile . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | His voice was low , and she glanced up and saw that he was watching her with a strange kind of intensity . |
| 27 | He was watching her with a strange look on his face , half amusement , half something else , and she felt herself bristle . |
| 28 | When she looked back at Petion , she saw that he was watching her with a sympathetic expression . |
| 29 | Raynor had fetched wine from a corner cupboard , and was heating it with a thin iron rod which had been resting in the fire 's embers . |
| 30 | Old Ladjang remonstrated with him quietly , but the others were silent , and we realized that our captain was infecting them with a subtle but poisonous hostility towards us . |