Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] [pron] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was watching you with the stopwatch . ’ |
| 2 | I was cleaning , cleaning it up and of course I was tapping it with a hammer was n't I to try and get all the putty you know , try and break the putty and most of it came away and I just tapped this one little |
| 3 | There we are , I was hiding them with my hand . |
| 4 | ‘ I knew I was leaving them with the basis of a good side and a first-rate manager in Nigel Best . |
| 5 | ‘ I knew I was leaving them with the basis of a good side and a first-rate manager in Nigel Best . |
| 6 | So , in the end , I was mixing it with cocaine . |
| 7 | When after I became a Christian I obeyed and was baptized , it was n't to make me a better person it was n't to make me er , someone who was , er more pious or more religious , or of having greater favour with God , it was done because he had commanded it in his word , and I was identifying myself with him . |
| 8 | But now he was cuddling me and whispering in my ear with helpless pleading , " Hold me — hold me — " Suddenly I was hugging him with all my strength ; our bodies were strung tight together and we were kissing each other 's cheeks with little frantic kisses — we could n't bear to draw apart even enough to find each other 's lips . |
| 9 | I was , I was hybridizing it with D R DOS . |
| 10 | Miranda felt a melting and tickling inside her stomach as if someone was stroking it with a feather . |
| 11 | She had £8,000 in the Gibraltar fund , a substantial slice of which was providing her with a monthly income . |
| 12 | If she had neutered the quick of mystery in platitude before , she was smothering it with symbols now . |
| 13 | She was regarding them with wide , dark eyes , full of uncertainty . |
| 14 | She was helping me with the french . |
| 15 | She was confusing him with her old dreams . |
| 16 | I could understand how she felt ; I realized that anyone who convinced herself that , when she took the holy biscuit she was uniting herself with God , would find it easy to convince herself that in death she would be united with her daughter . |
| 17 | When I turned to close the door behind me she was watching me with a faint smile . |
| 18 | As she was replacing it with its fellows , a thought occurred to her , and she wondered why it had taken her so long to arrive at such an obvious conclusion . |
| 19 | She was impressing herself with her ability to inject a casual calm into her voice , to compose her features in the darkness of the car . |
| 20 | I did n't take offence , nor did I think her last question the non sequitur of a schizophrenic — Chineseness had everything to do with financial acumen — but she was treating me with the politeness she would accord a stranger who was her equal . |
| 21 | She never knew how to make it come out sounding as if she was spelling it with a little ‘ m ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ The first time I met Samantha , ’ Bob says , ‘ I 'll never forget this , she was surrounded by these six guys and she was funking herself with a vibrator . |
| 23 | She was doing it with her usual spare , economical elegance , but also with the air of one who would rather be doing something else . |
| 24 | She was covering him with kisses , her nails digging into his back . |
| 25 | His excitement meant nothing to her ; she felt she was covering him with a pall of ash . |
| 26 | He turned towards Sylvia Toye , who was watching him with a smile on her face . |
| 27 | She could look neither at Dr Neil , nor at the tasteless harpy who was tormenting him with her tactlessness . |
| 28 | Living alone with an Aunt Louise who was acting someone with a grievance might , I thought , be rather difficult . ) |
| 29 | He was listening to Dinah Asshe , who was addressing him with laughter in her voice ; the voice that had charmed half London . |
| 30 | These , too , had been fated , Wexford 's broken by a pretty young woman who was helping him with his enquiries and Burden 's one day inadvertently put out with the rubbish . |