Example sentences of "[pron] were [v-ing] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence the cusp was on field lines which were convecting with similar velocity to the closed field lines equatorward of the cusp . |
| 2 | Outside ILT those who were working with bilingual students in general community and adult education also found that they were being asked to provide language awareness training for groups who had contact with their students , e.g. health workers , careers advisers , librarians , workers in advice agencies . |
| 3 | Users fell basically into two groups : there were the milder peace-loving ‘ Smile on your brother ’ types , whose philosophy was invoked by Jefferson Airplane 's hit record using that phrase , or the far more violent set who were emerging with hard rock and the free-as-the-wind Hell 's Angels , the unkempt , unwashed , tough and brutal rabble who were the built-in bad guys of the counter-culture ; they made the gangs in Rebel Without a Cause and Brando 's The Wild One look like a Sunday school gathering . |
| 4 | With slides at £5 each it would seem to be hard to justify buying one 's own film recorder unless you were dealing with confidential material . |
| 5 | Before 1926 , if we were dealing with real property in the strict sense , i.e. freeholds and copyholds , it is true that the trust was not necessary . |
| 6 | I watched the crew of a grubby Polish reefer vessel : they were taking pictures of each other against the background of the Gatun Locks ; three hours later , they were gazing with rapt attention at the passing majesty of Culebra ; their cameras were out again for the Pedro Miguel , for the distant flags of the American bases , for the Miraflores Locks , and for the immense red-white-and-blue bandera of the Panama Republic that waved lazily from the summit of Mount Ancon , over the old wooden houses of Panama City . |
| 7 | They were speaking with great energy to one another , and laughing . |
| 8 | First , they used variable and often vague definitions of abuse , so that in many cases it was not clear that they were dealing with established cases of abuse . |
| 9 | They were smoking with pent-up longing . |
| 10 | At lunchtime Dot 's ears began hurting inside her head as though they were filling with hot fire . |
| 11 | After lunch Joanna asked what kind of progress Sophie thought they were making with small animals . |
| 12 | Instead they were staring with considerable fascination at a fellow traveller who was reclining , fortunately with his back turned , a few seats down from them . |