Example sentences of "wrestled with [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she wrestled with the winches , hauling in the anchor and unfurling the headsail , her upper arms were seized in a vice-like grip . |
| 2 | For many years both during and after the war the government wrestled with the principles of post-war reconstruction , and it was not until 1947 that the mammoth Town and Country Bill passed into law . |
| 3 | The pilot wrestled with the highjackers as he desperately tried to land the plane at Canton airport , it then slammed into two other passenger jets . |
| 4 | The hoverspeed was swooping and diving as Daak wrestled with the controls . |
| 5 | During 1943 and 1944 Government wrestled with the recommendations of the Uthwatt Report ; a Town and Country Planning Bill would centre on the level of compensation to be paid for land and property acquired by local authorities , and the procedures to be followed . |
| 6 | The wind had risen , blowing the boat ever faster shorewards , and , as Alan wrestled with the oars , I tried to unfankle the heap of floss and flies , catching my tail fly on the bottom of the boat in the process . |
| 7 | In Good she played the hero 's senile , wheelchair-bound elderly mother ( ‘ I had nothing on my face and had to use a toilet on stage ’ ) , shrieking asperities at her hapless son as he wrestled with the temptations of Nazism . |
| 8 | Trembling , he hugged the most worn and shortened of the punches to his heart , thumbing its point , and wrestled with the words of compliance that rose all too readily . |