Example sentences of "were [v-ing] with [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wives were assisting with the lambing , looking after calves , and most probably administering drugs to young stock when needed . |
| 2 | Artemis had sometimes taken this run when out with her cowardly cousins , although she would always jump the open ditch and hedge while her cousins were fumbling with the gate . |
| 3 | He was in charge of a group of MSC workers who were helping with the work . |
| 4 | He indicated the fishing boat in the foreground , where the fishermen were struggling with a mass of unfurled canvas . |
| 5 | And I was told that he was going to die shortly , and that if I wished , the measures that they were using with the respirator could be removed at my request , because he was in a terminal stage ; it was just a matter of time , and I really felt that I could n't make that decision myself . |
| 6 | The members of Gothic Voices ( on this occasion five , of whom two were singing with the group for the first time ) sing these melodies — often complex and wide-ranging — as if they really love them ; sensitive to the ebb and flow of the text , they nurture unexpected melodic twists , always allowing the structure to unfold and mould . |
| 7 | Just as they had that other time when he had briefly held her , her senses were reacting with a will of their own . |
| 8 | By the end of 1981 and into 1982 , however , these new outbreaks were occurring with a rapidity and density which in retrospect can be seen as the building blocks for a full-blown heroin ‘ epidemic ’ . |
| 9 | Right come the morning arrived and and somebody else I ca n't remember who though , and there we were all ready to go and were walking with the press into the massive great shed where they roll the paper and make it a massive place the size of a couple of football pitches , we were just going in the door and somebody said to me they 're no gon na be using their flash guns are they ? |
| 10 | At the time of the first interviews in June 1990 the authorities were grappling with the devolution of services to the units and the district 's attempt to come to terms with the new role of purchaser . |
| 11 | Soldiers of the Special Presidential Division were flirting with a barmaid and objected when a security guard , a karate instructor identified only as Ekofo , offered her a drink . |
| 12 | I heard you were living with a cabinet member 's daughter and fighting for Gay Rights in Fast Cheam ? ’ |
| 13 | The National Child Development Study of 17 000 children born in 1958 found only just over 5 per cent of 16-year-olds living with a natural parent and an adoptive step-parent or parent 's cohabitee ( Ferri , 1984 ) ; the Family Formation Survey in 1976 found 7 per cent of all children under 16 ( 928 000 ) were living with a step-parent ( Dunnell , 1979 ) . |
| 14 | He was the only child of an Asian couple who were living with the father 's parents . |
| 15 | Marked differences also existed in their relationships with the father of their children : less than two-thirds of the ex-care women but all the comparison women were living with the father of their child . |
| 16 | However , back in England Florence Nightingale and William Rathbone [ qq.v. ] were wrestling with the problem of starting a district-nursing scheme for London and they persuaded Florence Lees to return and ‘ harness her great cleverness ’ to conducting a survey of the nursing needs of London . |
| 17 | Following the battle of Naseby in 1645 , Richard Baxter was concerned about the safety of some friends of his who were serving with the parliamentarian army . |
| 18 | When I came into the room , you were lying with the sheet half off you , so I had the full benefit of the sight of your virginal pyjamas . ’ |
| 19 | She said you were interning with a stockbroker and it was a special summer programme , so all the best and all the rest everyone else has already said to you . |
| 20 | On both banks steep hills were darkening with the sunset . |
| 21 | It seemed indeed that the numbers of low-paid unskilled jobs were growing with the advance of mechanization . |
| 22 | He landed the plane himself and taxied it over to where President and Mrs Sadat were waiting with a guard of honour , a twenty-one-gun salute , a military band to play the national anthems of Iran and Egypt , and a red carpet . |
| 23 | The party still had to cross Loch Arkaig by boat to meet up with his security men who were waiting with a Range Rover , and were clearly becoming worried . |
| 24 | unless you were going with a group of friends cos you do n't , you would n't meet anyone , you would , s seriously they were , last year they were like twelve years old . |
| 25 | You were going with the picture on the outside , well that 's fatal . |
| 26 | The boats were sparkling with the glitter of the ‘ caller ou , ’ as our fishwives call them ; and busily the men were throwing them out from among the nets into the creels , while the shore was lined by brawny-armed women clothed in waterproof aprons , who with marvellous rapidity were gutting the fish , and packing them in barrels with abundance of salt between each layer . |
| 27 | The family were staying with a friend of my grandmother 's in La Ciotat , a small harbour town near Marseille , our normal home . |
| 28 | The children were staying with a neighbour ; in the afternoon , Nonni went shopping . |
| 29 | Thinking they were breaking with the past , the early Christians re-enacted it . |
| 30 | Gordon Middleton , on the right , and Alan Hill , were riding with the Vale of Aylesbury Hunt when a horse failed to clear a gate and became trapped across it . |