Example sentences of "was [adv] [v-ing] with [art] [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 | No , he said , he was just disagreeing with a view put to him by the interviewer — just as Lady Thatcher herself would have disagreed with it . |
8 | I remember I was once experimenting with a gauze — it had been in La Scala for a hundred years and was full of dust . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | As of last week , Sun was still tinkering with the Viking 's clock speeds . |
13 | Antonio was positively bouncing with the honour of serving the big man himself . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | In the meantime Yavlinsky was also working with a group of Harvard University academics on a more detailed set of proposals , setting out the forms and extent of Western assistance and the timetable of economic ( and political ) reform . |
16 | There was a time when he would n't have noticed it , but these days he was a little touchy about things like that , especially as Fran was now living with a man fourteen years younger . |
17 | 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 ) . |
18 | Gwendolen , still clad in dark blue , was indefatigably marching with the party next to a most sympathetic lady . |
19 | He was almost shaking with the intensity of what he was saying . |
20 | In this exercise , students were : introduced to Prestel as an integral part of their course introduced to Prestel in the context of information technology using the word processing package relating the exercise to a real situation planning how to find information involved in scanning and interpreting information The library was again cooperating with a teacher in planning the exercise ; demonstrating a new source of information to students ; enabling students who might not otherwise do so , to use new technology in a way which is related to their curricular and personal needs . |
21 | Its sulphur-yellow throat was visibly pulsating with the effort . |
22 | 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 . |