Example sentences of "i was [v-ing] [prep] [noun] with " in BNC.

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1 I was staying in touch with Christian [ who lives north of Ruggia , near Clermont Ferrand ] all winter .
2 Craig was able to say his thanks in church while I was languishing in bed with tonsillitis .
3 Sweetheart , I told Mother I was falling in love with you long before we went to the island .
4 For even then I was falling in love with you , though you were little more than a child at the time . ’
5 I have to be honest and admit that I accepted the invitation to dinner to try to find out once and for all if you were involved with Martin , but that was because I needed to know , needed to prove your innocence , because I was falling in love with you .
6 I thought I was falling in love with him ! she told herself as she went down to the dining-room .
7 I was camping in Langdale with a party of Bolton climbers .
8 Come the following night , I was sitting at home with Caroline ( Nigel 's daughter by his first marriage , the wife of the ‘ moving ’ John , who had not long returned to Denmark ) .
9 I think they spoke to each other but I did n't get a good look until I was sitting in Armstrong with the engine running .
10 Two years later , I was travelling around America with a friend .
11 For instance , once when a friend from Australia was coming to stay with me , she asked me if I was going to sleep with her .
12 ‘ I said I was going to dinner with friends .
13 The whole time that I was working at Erith with Wartberg I would journey right across London every Friday afternoon to see Gyggle at his new office .
14 The next step was selection for the World Cup squad : ‘ Actually , I was lying in bed with ‘ flu on the Sunday morning of a squad session from which I had called off when Bill Hogg , the SRU secretary , telephoned to say that Iain Milne had been forced to withdraw .
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