Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [v-ing] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | The director had a lot of respect for Douglas as an actor but since this was to be Silverstein 's first theatrical film he did n't want to have to find himself dealing with ‘ A consummate ego ’ , as he put it , and then added , ‘ no , huge ego ’ . |
| 2 | At Hamilton Terrace Minton may have been relieved , after the turmoil of Bedford Gardens , to find himself sharing with someone who came from a similar background . |
| 3 | So it was without surprise that he found himself sharing with her one of the tinny , open-sided cars of the creaky old funicular that saved tourists the toil of climbing the seven hundred and more steep stone steps up from the Marina Grande . |
| 4 | Also , at the Gala Night of a Hundred Stars evening at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton , a mime artist came on stage and found himself struggling with a sticky audience . |
| 5 | He found himself struggling with the wheel , fighting to keep the vehicle under control . |
| 6 | He was himself directly responsible for Gideon 's suicide , and now he found himself sitting with Gideon 's friends . |
| 7 | In addition there was the tension of waiting for news from the Ministry of Sport and despite all Herr Nordern 's warnings , based on his own profound experience of bureaucracy , he , as well as the rest of the family , found himself waiting with more than usual interest for the postman 's knock . |
| 8 | Robertson found himself agreeing with its sentiments . |
| 9 | In his corner Joseph found himself grappling with an overwhelming sense of bewilderment . |
| 10 | Worse yet , the British foreign secretary , the highest-ranking western visitor since Tiananmen , found himself negotiating with Chinese messenger boys . |
| 11 | As well as writing soundtracks — his latest , the music for a TV documentary on the architect Frank Lloyd Wright — he busies himself playing with no less than three other outfits . |
| 12 | In the last years of the Soviet Union and in the new republics the militia found itself dealing with a level of public demonstration — and sometimes disorder — of which it had no previous experience , and it did not always deal efficiently with them . |
| 13 | It is hard to know exactly what the company were aiming at or were attempting to say , but after a couple of scenes the audience found itself tussling with one question only . |
| 14 | She found herself gazing with fascination at his hair , which curled slightly against his collar , before her gaze rose to meet the full impact of his startlingly blue gaze . |
| 15 | Lindsey found herself gazing with fascination at the figure reclining in the bed . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , but he 's younger than I am , ’ said Ianthe , and then found herself flushing with annoyance at having taken Miss Grimes 's joke seriously . |
| 17 | She found herself tracing with her finger a pale , silvery track where graffiti had been erased from the wall . |
| 18 | She found herself agreeing with the historian 's distaste for Mills ' personal morality . |
| 19 | For the first time she found herself agreeing with Fen . |
| 20 | The path through the beeches was narrow , and Merrill , against her will , found herself walking with Luke as Sam staunchly strode ahead , matching his wife 's energetic pace . |
| 21 | But as the days went on she found herself working with him more and more frequently , delegating the routine tasks to the general office on the ground floor . |
| 22 | She found herself dancing with Jacques . |
| 23 | Once again Leonora found herself fighting with the tiller in a dinghy threatening to stand on its head in a mountainous sea , but this time when the engine cut out she was plucked from the boat before she could hit the water . |
| 24 | Still , reluctant as she was to aid and abet her curious cousin in any way , she found herself asking with careful casualness , ‘ What 's his mystery ? ’ |
| 25 | Yet she found herself observing with an edge of sarcasm , ‘ Indeed ? |
| 26 | His voice was jocular and Kate found herself laughing with him . |
| 27 | He was quite outrageous and she knew she should not have so much as smiled , but she found herself laughing with him . |
| 28 | He laughed , and she found herself laughing with him , enjoying the moment , wanting it to continue . |
| 29 | Then they half slithered , half rolled down the wide oaken stairway and found themselves shivering with fright in the moonlit hall ; or rather Sam and Rose found each other . |
| 30 | His story was not unusual among the xiafang ( students sent to the countryside ) , who found themselves competing with teenagers for college places . |