Example sentences of "was [v-ing] with the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our second example takes us back fifty years , to the second decade of the seventeenth century when Galileo was struggling with the question to which Boyle gave so easy an answer : whether the study of Scripture need hinder the study of nature . |
| 2 | Moreover , it must be remembered that the unit is extremely small , and also that by the time that man was struggling with the birth pangs of civilisation , it had already been produced , by the wondrous process of evolution , in astronomical numbers . |
| 3 | He unloosed the third and fourth and was struggling with the reins of the fifth when he heard voices on the path . |
| 4 | At that time , was experimenting with the immunization of monkeys with vaccines made with killed polio virus . |
| 5 | After that he was contending with the Saturday morning traffic of south east London . |
| 6 | Within minutes he was helping with the digging . |
| 7 | ‘ He was helping with the feeding of the stock like he does every morning . |
| 8 | They had returned to the Operations Room , where Bernice was surprised to hear Ace 's voice — as far as anyone knew she was recovering with the rest of her party on Moloch — and even more surprised to hear it raised in anger and directed at — of all people — the Doctor . |
| 9 | It looked as if he was copulating with the ice . |
| 10 | She was toying with the sand , scooping it up and letting it trail through her fingers , and she did n't see the expression in his eyes when he next spoke . |
| 11 | Like the NGC , the PFLP and DFLP suspected that Fatah was toying with the peace process . |
| 12 | ‘ I had holidayed several times in France and was toying with the idea of buying a house there , but with no definite plan in mind . |
| 13 | He was toying with the idea of bifocal spectacles on the eve of his appointment as Ambassador to France , and the future held a key role for him in the drafting of the American Constitution . |
| 14 | The Jungian concept of synchronicity was much on his mind because he was toying with the idea of using it to underpin the narrative structure of London . |
| 15 | I was toying with the idea of running one amongst us Leeds fans over the net , but I would just like to know if anyone 's even been in one before , and what it is like . |
| 16 | Er I was toying with the idea of getting out altogether out of the , I 'll be honest with double glazing . |
| 17 | And she was toying with the idea whether to go and do her midwifery cos that 's what she wanted to do |
| 18 | André was toying with the stem of his glass , and Simone looked quickly at Piers and then looked away . |
| 19 | Yesterday he was rowing with the boat race squad on this stretch of Thames at Wallingford when he complained he felt unwell . |
| 20 | A few miles away , at Andrews , Air Force One was landing with the body of Simon Cormack . |
| 21 | The Guardian of May 23 said that the fighting , previously " confined to sporadic small arms skirmishes " , was intensifying with the use of heavy weaponry and organized military formations . |
| 22 | The Fat Controller was sitting Ciceronian amongst the mob , and his intended victim was squeaking with the rest . |
| 23 | He told the court at Wakefield : ‘ I was grappling with the pit bull for about 10 minutes to get it off and I also got bitten . ’ |
| 24 | By 1911 , Umberto Boccioni who was dead by 1916 , was grappling with the emotions of modern life ; the impact and anxieties of living in the stroboscopic uncertainties of a mechanised urban environment . |
| 25 | I reported the drop to Warton and asked what was happening with the rescue efforts . |
| 26 | She could hear a tiny voice somewhere , talking and pausing , as if somebody 's radio was interfering with the music , but by the time she left the room it had stopped . |
| 27 | It is said that he was interfering with the choir girls , some of whom were betrothed . |
| 28 | Lady Roscarrock was quivering with the rage of one who is certain she had God on her side . |
| 29 | Cos I was driving with the window open . |
| 30 | Celia was returning with the beer , three glasses in between her hands , her tongue wedged in that chip in her teeth . |