Example sentences of "be [v-ing] with the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been grappling with the oddest emotional reaction , one she 'd never come across before and could n't fathom at all , clutching the jacket round her so tightly that her knuckles were white . |
| 2 | When you 're dealing with the smallest cogs in a ‘ million pound train-set ’ which in any case will not be operational for decades , how can you think to exchange these with a human life ? |
| 3 | Now a sinister trend is emerging with the rearrest of some of those whose prison sentences are drawing to an end . |
| 4 | Normally Paul would have been circulating with the best of them , oiling the wheels . |
| 5 | In no time I was rolling with the best of them and filling the intervals between wines by chewing a morsel of cheese . |