Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] with the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could hear them fumbling with the ladder at the window . |
| 2 | But they put their foot down when it came to maths and they caught me grappling with the colour scheme of a kestrel . |
| 3 | Someone living with the patient may be able to remind them of these points . |
| 4 | ‘ That — or someone tampering with the sample . ’ |
| 5 | Designed by Matthew Holmes , 168 of the 18 inch goods locomotives of N.B.R. class ‘ C ’ ( later LNER class J-36 ) were built between 1888 and 1900 , with 25 of them serving with the Railway Operating Division in France . |
| 6 | He found himself struggling with the wheel , fighting to keep the vehicle under control . |
| 7 | Trade with them was forbidden , Thomson himself sailing with the fleet in an expedition which forced the colonies to submit ( 1650–5 ) . |
| 8 | lock Peter Bell got them going with the opening score … |
| 9 | So are you helping with the catering side or are you running a cake stall ? |
| 10 | The testimony of a witness in a case tried at Matara early in the nineteenth century illustrates the lack of plausibility of much court testimony : ‘ I saw the two prisoners drive a head of cattle — It was in the high road — It was about two hours before dark — We asked them where are you going with the animal — Is this not the animal of the schoolmaster . |
| 11 | What is she doing with the guitar to produce that look of dreamy ecstasy ? |
| 12 | And now where er , what you doing with the gravy , put it , let the people |
| 13 | What are you doing with the water ? |
| 14 | Him and David a few beers What you doing with the mum ? |
| 15 | What you doing with the fringe then , just that 'd be like fringe . |
| 16 | What are you doing with the tape ? |
| 17 | ‘ She 'd probably heard rumours , and did n't like you fraternizing with the enemy camp . ’ |
| 18 | Are you playing with the telephone ? |
| 19 | Now , are we sticking with the allocation that we had in the past , peoples responsibility , or when we change them in this sort of way are we mucking them about ? 'Cos I like to know what I am responsible for and what I 'm not . |
| 20 | It 's important to have enough space and a well-thought out arrangement that allows both eating and cooking to take place without the one interfering with the other . |
| 21 | The circulation to that finger is poor and I think there 's something interfering with the circulation . |
| 22 | ‘ If we 're both here , why are we bothering with the phone ? ’ |
| 23 | I stared straight back at it and very slowly brought the gun round to bear , moving it first one way then slightly the other , so that it looked like something swaying with the wind in the grass . |
| 24 | It did not , however , stop them continuing with the innovation in the next school year , after making some modifications to the scheme of work . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She found herself agreeing with the historian 's distaste for Mills ' personal morality . |
| 27 | We also find him toying with the idea of writing an arthuriad , choosing his subject from English history . |
| 28 | One can see him grappling with the difficulty in his poem-cum-essay ‘ The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm 's Son ’ , published in 1953 , the year before The Fellowship of the Ring . |
| 29 | Now I 've seen him interfering with the smoke alarm now ! |
| 30 | All these kept her rising with the tide , even if she rode lower in the water than Germany . |