Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [adv] with a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was hanging around with a bunch of amateurs in Hell . |
| 2 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ I 'd just come back from the States and was hanging around with a band called Ashton Gardner and Dyke . |
| 3 | Sergeant Collier — the prisoners may refresh themselves. , The party was drawing up with a jingle and a grinding of hooves on a cobbled forecourt . |
| 4 | He was slapping about with a dustpan and brush , getting up the worst of the spilled coffee and other foods . |
| 5 | Now if he did n't shave his hair off and he was walking around with a rim round the side of his head |
| 6 | I was walking around with a camera and binoculars right on top of their nuclear silos . |
| 7 | After closing time he was walking home with a friend when he felt an arm round his neck and was confronted by Simpson , who wielded the knife and demanded he hand over his jumper and coat . |
| 8 | Imagine my poor Aunt 's reaction when told by a shocked neighbour that her eldest daughter was walking out with a Chinaman . |
| 9 | She was walking now with a stick and as she sat down heavily at the table she seemed depressed . |
| 10 | Her world was opening up with a vengeance . |
| 11 | Bobo ran to the back of her cage and Fifi had to scamper out of the way to save herself from being trampled , and then Bobo was storming back with a handful of straw and dung which she hurled at Donaldson before slamming herself into the bars and screaming loudly as they shook . |
| 12 | Mr Willis said people would be astonished that the Government was pressing ahead with a Bill which no one , not even employers , wanted . |
| 13 | At bottom then there was some democratic basis for the Unionist case , for the government was pressing on with a reform that they knew was not backed by the electorate . |
| 14 | She certainly did n't like to say that he was living there with a girl . |
| 15 | As Cameron opened with his usual explanation of the Act , he did not know that the Reverend William McIvor , a tall whiskery man with coarse orange hair and very pale blue eyes , had stayed outside his manse , in the cover of a thick yew tree , and was listening hard with a hand cupped round his ear . |
| 16 | He noticed that she was puffing along with a glass held before her in both hands — he could smell whisky . |
| 17 | By my first week in-country ( my third on mefloquine ) I had reduced sensation in my legs , was waking up with a start from severe nightmares which subjectively had lasted for hours ( in reality for only 15 min ) , and occasionally wondering what it would be like to jump the eight floors from my hotel room . |
| 18 | Five pirates were on their feet , and another man was lying down with a head wound . |
| 19 | A teenage girl was camping out with a number of friends on field at , which is situated between Lane and Lane . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , the stock market was dominated by the fireworks display at ICI , which finally announced it was going ahead with a demerger . |
| 21 | By the time I was eight-years-old I was going around with a prostitute . |
| 22 | Here I am eighteen years old , and in a great state of elation because I was going out with a boy . |
| 23 | My mother says he did n't train enough because he was going out with a girl called Ticky Hinton . |
| 24 | She was going out with a friend of mine , but she came on so strong that she frightened him off . |
| 25 | A nerve jiggled at the corner of Meredith 's mouth because she was beginning to piece small bits of information together and was coming up with a heap of worries . |
| 26 | ‘ Dave thought someone was running around with a neighbour 's wife ’ said Alice quietly . |
| 27 | Sure , I was standing here with a hole the size of an elephant 's nose guard in my four-set clause . |
| 28 | He returned to assist Frye , who was standing now with a frown of concentration on his face . |
| 29 | I was talking recently with a group of fourth-year boys — the girls were at a talk on sex education . |
| 30 | So when the speaker was talking rapidly with a lot of energy she would listen with obvious interest , excitement and quick responses . |