Example sentences of "was [adv] [v-ing] with the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was most sparing with the anger on celluloid : would rather fake it than summon it up . |
| 2 | The following spring the same duo , neither of whom had climbed since the previous autumn , was optimistically toying with the idea of opening the season with Dream of White Horses on Gogarth . |
| 3 | And then , so gently that she was hardly aware of what was happening — as if she was merely swaying with the tide — he gradually pulled her towards the shore , slowly drawing her up against the bare , damp skin of his broad chest . |
| 4 | The black , wet face pressed to the glass of the vizor was constantly changing with the movement of the slime . |
| 5 | She was suddenly burning with the fire of a new task . |
| 6 | It was a cold night and I had no overcoat but I was soon sweating with the effort of carrying the suitcase . |
| 7 | On Sunday at 11pm , Mrs Biky 's basement cavern was still humming with the sound of her sewing machine as she turned out ladies ' dresses and blouses . |
| 8 | Flavia Sherman was still wrestling with the turmoil of emotions that had kept her awake long after she returned to her own hut through the stormy jungle night . |
| 9 | Before I left , I told Eliot that I was still toying with the idea of writing the book on politics , which had increasingly been absorbing me , and I described to him something of what it had been like to live under a benevolent dictatorship . |
| 10 | As of last week , Sun was still tinkering with the Viking 's clock speeds . |
| 11 | Antonio was positively bouncing with the honour of serving the big man himself . |
| 12 | I wanted to be a writer ( hence the course ) but was also toying with the idea of the group , which I pursued full time after finishing . |
| 13 | The directive had been unpublicized , and was only confirmed officially on Jan. 25 after the news had been leaked by the independent Interfax news agency ( which was now operating with the support of the Russian Federation government and Moscow city council after Gosteleradio had withdrawn its support in January — see p. 37972 ) . |
| 14 | Gwendolen , still clad in dark blue , was indefatigably marching with the party next to a most sympathetic lady . |
| 15 | He was almost shaking with the intensity of what he was saying . |
| 16 | Its sulphur-yellow throat was visibly pulsating with the effort . |
| 17 | Living as he was on the borders of his lost paradise , in the limitless landscape of childhood from which he had been banished into adulthood , an uncomfortable country , I sensed that Jean-Claude was continually grappling with the feeling that his present was a poor reflection of his past . |