Example sentences of "was [verb] with [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They married in 1910 and she came to live at West park , where Father was farming with his sister , Hannah . |
| 2 | Because some of the volunteers subsequently joined my slimming and exercise classes which I hold weekly at the Holiday Inn in Leicester , I was able to hear first hand the kind of encouraging comments which only served to confirm what I was seeing with my eyes as each week passed . |
| 3 | He was struggling with his second mouthful when Buddie came to his assistance . |
| 4 | The door rattled for some time : Marcus was struggling with his key . |
| 5 | She stood silent , not knowing that he was struggling with his love for her . |
| 6 | Mary was kneeling with her head and shoulders inside the dark cave of a box-bed . |
| 7 | The girl was sparing with her smiles . |
| 8 | I was to go with my cousins to Wisconsin , you know . ’ |
| 9 | She was shaken with her longing to see him again . |
| 10 | Just as Olga was fumbling with her food tray , struggling to unseal the utensils , she was suddenly lashed by a storm of hysterical accusations . |
| 11 | As he turned his attention to a woman who was fumbling with her purse , I ducked my head and squeezed behind her through the door and into the crowded bus . |
| 12 | A youth of 16 was helping with their inquiries . |
| 13 | ‘ Until recently , Tom was helping with their inquiries on a strictly involuntary basis , you understand … ? ’ |
| 14 | I was favoured with your letter and should have been glad to embrace this opportunity of sending a packet of seeds to Dr. Manetti of Florence , but the season has been so cold that but few of them have ripened as yet , but if the next month proves favourable , I hope to send him some in November , if you have any opportunity to convey them . |
| 15 | A meeting was arranged with my contacts and other interested parties . |
| 16 | She was indicted with her son , Johannes Fowler , on two alternative counts under section 18 and 20 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 . |
| 17 | The sound grew and swelled , as the singers somehow found new strength to praise their God , until the ship was filled with their harmonies . |
| 18 | ‘ What are you doing … ? ’ she demanded , trying to sound strong , but her voice was filled with her heartbeat and her vulnerability . |
| 19 | The night was filled with my father 's delirium . |
| 20 | FORMER Northern Ireland star Bryan Hamilton was sacked with his team just 90 minutes away from Wembley ! |
| 21 | Several times , Bernice thought she was getting the better of him , only to realise that he was toying with her expectations and reactions . |
| 22 | He was conscious of the fact that Madeleine was toying with her food and looking increasingly bored . |
| 23 | But why was an in itself not implausible view held with a passionate , indeed a pathological , extremism which contrasted so notably ( as Bernard Shaw was to observe with his usual wit ) with the ideal of moderation and the juste milieu which had traditionally defined middle-class social ambitions and roles ? |
| 24 | One day in the spring of 1941 , as I was walking with my schoolfriend Wilma in Via Cavour , the elegant street in the centre of Parma , we saw two men go up to another who was quietly reading the paper outside a café . |
| 25 | He was walking with his mum in Chicago when two men in a car began firing at three others . |
| 26 | One Sunday soon afterwards Mr Utterson was walking with his friend Enfield when they happened to pass through the narrow side-street again . |
| 27 | Owen Connell , 20 , from Bishopbriggs , was walking with his brother and a friend in Clyde Street near Customhouse Quay gardens when he was seriously assaulted by four or five youths . |
| 28 | I was walking and he was with his mum and I looked up cos I know what his mum looks like and he was walking with his mum . |
| 29 | Only when his knob was saturated with her gooey love juices did he present the tip of the monster to her dinky young anus . |
| 30 | Timothy , 31 , was trapped beneath his 45ft juggernaut which was parked with its hazard lights flashing in a lay-by on the A63 near Hull . |