Example sentences of "was [adv] [v-ing] with [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was attached to his mother , but she died in 1926 , while Nasser was away living with his uncle in Cairo . |
| 2 | ‘ Karel played a good match but I was always struggling with my timing . |
| 3 | At a party at 9 Apollo Place , Norman Bowler had spent much of the evening dancing with Henrietta Law who was still living with her husband Michael in Kensington though their marriage was by then over . |
| 4 | For Melanie , at fifteen , it had been her first sexual relationship , she now had a baby daughter and was still living with her family . |
| 5 | But Chaman was very protective and supportive ; it was as if I was still living with my mother . ’ |
| 6 | He afforded himself a quick glance at Plummer , who was still struggling with his spaghetti . |
| 7 | Ardamal just beat Kreig out of the door , while Dommer was still fumbling with his flamer . |
| 8 | ‘ You did n't care that Garry was still sleeping with his wife when he was supposed to be in love with you ? ’ |
| 9 | She was still sitting with her head partly averted , so her face was hidden . |
| 10 | It seemed bizarre to select a washing machine and an electric cooker for the use of some prospective young maid who was still sitting with her family in a Karachi or Lahore back street . |
| 11 | Keeping its eye on what HP was up to with its latest Snake , see page three , Sun was still dickering with its pricing schedule at the eleventh hour last week . |
| 12 | A business student at Jordanstown , Julieanne said she loved every minute of the work but that she was glad she was also continuing with her education . |
| 13 | Her own mother was now living with her son who had married a Polish girl from Hoboken . |
| 14 | He had known the writer Hope Mirrlees for some years , at first through her friendship with the Woolfs ( the Hogarth Press had published her long poem , Paris , three years before The Waste Land ) , and she was now living with her mother and spinster aunt . |
| 15 | In these last years of the war , he was simply continuing with his life , going on from day to day without much hope for the future . |
| 16 | She realised that , as she did this , she was almost groaning with her effort to release the horror locked within her . |
| 17 | Yesterday , serene as ever , Eric Clapton was there lunching with his photographer pal Terry O'Neill . |
| 18 | It was easier galloping with his head straight , and the horse could now see that the man was quite relaxed . |
| 19 | The first failed … but there was no messing with his second . |