Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] with [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were dazzling with brilliantly coloured paintings . |
| 2 | They were celebrating with just 8 minutes to go when Rovers hit the winner . |
| 3 | Chart 1 shows how the non-conformances have been reduced since 1989 , when we were dealing with over 300 different hauliers . |
| 4 | In either event , I believe that it could only cause confusion if we were dealing with more than one previous life at a time . |
| 5 | We were playing with so much arrogance that it needed something like that to make us play . |
| 6 | Nearby , little boys were playing with brightly coloured diamond-shaped kites which they flew up into the warm evening breeze . |
| 7 | The picture with regard to briefing and preparation was encouraging with only one assistant reporting that she had not been briefed . |
| 8 | This had been the story that he 'd used when it had n't seemed so serious , and it was the story that he was sticking with now . |
| 9 | His chin was jutting with yet more aggression , at any rate , as , ignoring that question , he asked one of his own . |
| 10 | At the time the Royal Free was dealing with just three . |
| 11 | I had the club already going , was dealing with mainly young people , and as you will know young people 's taste tends to vary quite considerably and very quickly , so I might well be very successful for so long and then if suddenly taste changed and I had n't got the ability to change with the times I realized that it would be rather precarious , so I needed a second string to my bow . |
| 12 | I 'd know what I was dealing with then . |
| 13 | The station was overflowing with badly wounded who had already been waiting for treatment for several days . |
| 14 | The heavy , cleaving blade was devastating with just one blow . |
| 15 | ‘ The man said he was leaving with either the money or the set . ’ |
| 16 | But the storm was raging with almost primeval ferocity . |
| 17 | The occasion was bursting with barely suppressed triumph . |
| 18 | Well they had to get their own machines out an there 's one old boy had a stitcher , a be he looked ninety , he probably was n't , and er he was chu , it was just after lunch and he was chewing apple and old Jo , I was working with so you know , Jim someone 's I said look at the silly old B , I said ! |
| 19 | It was engaging with much the same processes as those later explored by Goffman , Harré and those working from a symbolic interactionist position . |