Example sentences of "[pron] was [v-ing] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Ministers were tempted to give undertakings to the Committee , on which unfortunately I could not serve because I was dealing with other orders such as the Scottish seed potato order at the time , what has happened is a bit below the belt . |
| 2 | ‘ One medium I was sitting with told me Tom and Lillian appeared . |
| 3 | Willa Cather 's My Antonia , which along with her other novels I was absorbing with great delight at this period , provided another couple with whom to identify , Antonia and Jim Burden , and I kept switching sides with these characters also . |
| 4 | Yeah , I would take some credit for that but you 've got to remember that in Fleetwood Mac I was working with great writers and great singers . ’ |
| 5 | We rode off to the field which was bursting with beautiful yellow melons , my favourite sort . |
| 6 | I found her standing by the sink , which she was filling with hot water . |
| 7 | But to avoid it meant a long detour to get into Barn Street , and she was shivering with wet and cold . |
| 8 | ‘ And there is n't even a sunset yet , ’ she husked desperately as the fire of his body and his need for her swelled and swelled within her till she was writhing with sweet ecstasy beneath him on the dry , dusty cliff-top . |
| 9 | But when the Nefertari appeared after her annual refit , she was gleaming with fresh white and blue paint and varnished wood . |
| 10 | Soon she was singing with various friends in nearby Crouch End . |
| 11 | She was blazing with middle-class righteousness . |
| 12 | She was behaving with unaccustomed grandeur , slipping on a manner of authority and calm that would have made her mother laugh , if she had not wanted to cry . |
| 13 | She was concentrating with exaggerated passion upon her own blind , sensitive footsteps when her instep caught in some solid , clinging mass , and threw her forward in a clumsy , crippling stumble , from which she recovered strongly , and kept her balance . |
| 14 | Suddenly , she was brimming with happy excitement — which had nothing whatsoever to do with Guido , she kept telling herself . |
| 15 | ‘ But do n't you understand , I only want to help , ’ she was saying with bosom-heaving passion . |
| 16 | She glanced at Guido who was watching with wry amusement . |
| 17 | Jack Butler glanced across the table to their host who was listening with rapt attention to a woman dressed as a schoolgirl . |
| 18 | The evening was drawing to a close and everybody was dancing with new-found friends . |
| 19 | Consequently , it was struggling with outdated equipment and facilities . |
| 20 | And even in that season it was bustling with foreign tourists in foreign-tourist hats . |
| 21 | As he raised it to his lips he saw that it was brimming with drowned black insects . |
| 22 | Although in the case of learning disabilities he accepted that he was dealing with congenital conditions incapable of radical improvement , his regimen called not only for humane treatment but also for an appreciation that disabled people deserved special understanding because of their superior spiritual status . |
| 23 | Castenada ( 1970 ) , for example , found he was dealing with new events and totally new ways of understanding . |
| 24 | He reminded himself again that he was dealing with premeditated murder and the Glynns were not the sort to resort deliberately to force except in dire circumstances . |
| 25 | So , are you saying that Johnson , despite the fact that he was dealing with human types , human beings , was actually more realistic in terms of how the world as a whole works in that , bad people do get away with things if they 're good enough ? |
| 26 | He was dealing with intelligent men and women , experienced , even if vicariously , in criminal investigation , knowledgeable about police procedure , aware of the rules which governed his every move . |
| 27 | He was speaking with sham formality again . |
| 28 | There was a slight lurch and suddenly Nails found that all was sweetness and light ; he was moving with delicious ease , his bottom glued to the saddle , no slithering , no jerking , no bumping , just a pleasant sensation of moving to a smooth , easy rhythm . |
| 29 | The harsh strength in his face did n't weaken , but she saw that he was listening with cold concentration to her words . |
| 30 | When he was hungry , he went to eat the left-overs thrown to the dogs outside the Anglesey farmhouse where he was staying with foster parents . |