Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] with an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lazy-lidded grey eyes in a dark , chisel-chinned face were regarding her with an insulting trace of laughter somewhere in their depths . |
| 2 | The blue eyes were studying her with an intentness she found exceedingly disconcerting . |
| 3 | He was threatening them with an extraordinary general meeting of the club . |
| 4 | He was regarding me with an indulgence that did not convince me . |
| 5 | He knew well enough that convincing politicians was a tough job , so his plan was to present them with an informed and insistent electorate of the future . |
| 6 | The Feldwebel had not moved and I looked all the way up his black leather jack-boots and the thin grey greatcoat with its cheap tin buttons looking as if they had come out of a Christmas pudding before I noticed that his eyes were slightly open and that he was watching me with an uncle 's amusement . |
| 7 | That curious flicker was in his eyes again ; he was watching her with an intensity that was unnerving . |