Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [v-ing] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hand hurt just as much and now I was shivering with cold . |
| 2 | ‘ I told him I was training with Guisborough that evening , so he met me up there and a deal was sorted out . |
| 3 | There did n't seem to be anything interesting there , but I remembered the lesson of the day before , when I had stopped to sniff the air and everything had seemed fine , then ten minutes later I was wrestling with a kamikaze rabbit , so I trotted down off the side of the dune and down to the line of debris thrown up by the sea . |
| 4 | When a waiter asked me , and the people I was eating with , sentence ( 2 ) in Task 2 , we understood him , even though , in textbook terms , his words might seem to be nonsense . |
| 5 | I was discussing with a distinguished star in the pianistic firmament the other day as to whom he felt was the finest living pianist ; no hesitation — Sviatoslav Richter ! |
| 6 | For I was shrieking with laughter at some of the unintentional one-liners and an alien about as terrifying as E.T . |
| 7 | I was listening with half my mind to the essay my pupil was reading and although the ideas he was expressing ( about sense-data ) were in themselves neither new nor interesting they had set off ideas of my own , as the ideas in undergraduate essays often do — I think of it as one of the uncovenanted benefits of teaching . |
| 8 | Before I had heard a dozen words , I was trembling with fear . |
| 9 | I was still at the crease , but having pulled a muscle in my leg I was batting with a runner . |
| 10 | ‘ But I never connected the baby I was holding with the baby who was kidnapped . |
| 11 | That is um in Burstow 's clinical practice she reckons that um sometimes people say something along the lines of well well um perhaps it was my fault , I was flirting with him , and things like that it and these are people who maybe have been about five or six when the abuse has happened and so y'know do five or six year olds flirt ? |
| 12 | On the day when I was wilting with heat my feet were not in the least sweaty , but I would have liked more support — I thought it barely adequate except for lowland walking . |
| 13 | ‘ I was dining with a fellow engineer , who was home on furlough from Argentina . |
| 14 | I tried to stab my beak at them , to catch them with my talons , to use what strength was left in my wing , but the pain of it all was terrible and I was weakening with each second that passed by and before each new attack . |
| 15 | I am enclosing a photograph ( opposite ) of the aircraft , that I took when I was serving with the Communication Flight based at RAF Lydda , Palestine , ( now Ben Gurion Airport , Israel ) during the latter months of 1942 . |
| 16 | : I was serving with the Army in Malaya . |
| 17 | I was telling you , was I not , that I was seeing with exactness what the English workman was doing while we were waiting to ascend . |
| 18 | Because some of the volunteers subsequently joined my slimming and exercise classes which I hold weekly at the Holiday Inn in Leicester , I was able to hear first hand the kind of encouraging comments which only served to confirm what I was seeing with my eyes as each week passed . |
| 19 | Mary Finnigan : ‘ I first met David in the summer of 1968 when I was living with my two children in a ground floor flat in an old house in Beckenham . |
| 20 | David was n't there , so I was living with Angela and that 's when I first got the inkling that all was not well between David and Tony . |
| 21 | ‘ That person I was living with , ’ she chuckled , ‘ she thought a lot of you when you came to see us . |
| 22 | I was living with Keren in a squat above the Sex Pistols rehearsal room in Denmark Street . ’ |
| 23 | The previous year , when my lifestyle was reversed and I was living with my Mom mid-week , I 'd bring my pal Sally to stay for the week-end at Pop 's . |
| 24 | Since I was living with the most out gay man I know , I was n't short of an opinion on anything to do with anything in faggotdom , or at least the social side of it . |
| 25 | He knew I was living with someone , living in sin . ’ |
| 26 | I was living with my mam in a council house . |
| 27 | I felt inadequate because I was living with a man . ’ |
| 28 | I was living with Desmond and I used to have to give him every goddamn penny . |
| 29 | It 's not simply a matter of defying conventions although I admit I have been strictly brought up and I think it would break my parents ’ hearts if ever they came to know I was living with a man who was not my husband . |
| 30 | I doubt if anyone could have been much more unhappy than I was living with them at Maythorpe House . |