Example sentences of "who was [verb] [pron] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turned towards Sylvia Toye , who was watching him with a smile on her face . |
| 2 | She could look neither at Dr Neil , nor at the tasteless harpy who was tormenting him with her tactlessness . |
| 3 | Living alone with an Aunt Louise who was acting someone with a grievance might , I thought , be rather difficult . ) |
| 4 | He was listening to Dinah Asshe , who was addressing him with laughter in her voice ; the voice that had charmed half London . |
| 5 | These , too , had been fated , Wexford 's broken by a pretty young woman who was helping him with his enquiries and Burden 's one day inadvertently put out with the rubbish . |
| 6 | ‘ Christopher , ’ said Francis to Jane , who was helping him with the sheep the next morning , ‘ has been like a father to me . ’ |
| 7 | And again he looked around , this time for the devil who was tempting him with the prospect he most profoundly desired . |
| 8 | But the former golden girl of British tennis , who was mixing it with the world 's elite just five years ago , was pegged back when Smith won the second set tie-break 7-2 . |
| 9 | It had suddenly borne in upon her that it was almost midnight and that she was in a strange flat in a strange city , with a strange man who was plying her with champagne . |