Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [adv prt] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The year 1973 came close to repeating the triumphs of 1972 but , as usual in FI , other cars were catching up with the Lotus , though not in qualifying , for 1973 was the year in which Ronnie Peterson notched an astonishing nine pole positions and a place on the front row in twelve of the season 's fifteen races , as against one and five for Emerson , Peterson finishing a mere three points behind Fittipaldi . |
| 2 | In the meantime , they were pressing on with the task of handing leaflets to anyone prepared to take one , and taking limited encouragement from the presence of a junior Labour front-bencher , Kate Hoey , at their conference fringe meeting . |
| 3 | Mr Haydn Cook , chief executive of the Friarage , said negotiations were going on with the Scorton hospital about its contract for the forthcoming year . |
| 4 | You said yesterday you were going along with the Irish |
| 5 | ‘ I was asking , Preston , how you were getting on with the Devil . ’ |
| 6 | We do not send you copies of every letter we write , minutes of every meeting we attend , etc because we assumed you would realise we were getting on with the job . |
| 7 | Of course , that sort of thing has a really limited audience and , because we were living in Hawaii , there was nobody there to watch us anyway , so we were coming up with the most insane stuff we could do , basically just to please ourselves ! |
| 8 | And the entire staff and management committee at Monte Samana were bubbling over with the news that old Mrs Richards had a boyfriend . |
| 9 | Oh , I did my homework , while you were screaming along with the boys ! |
| 10 | Most of pop 's pretensions to offering social commentary for all were waning along with The Clash and the 2-Tone contingent , and a new ethic of dance-and-forget prevailed . |