Example sentences of "[adv] be [v-ing] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sorry I ca n't really sort of say I must admit I could n't really see why they should be like that really cos I mean it is a bit puzzling cos if they 've only just done anything , they 've only been tampering with this finger so |
| 2 | I saw the evil light in his eyes and knew that so far they had only been playing with me : their real intent was to kill . |
| 3 | The mobile radio truck , belonging to the Mass Communications Organization of Thailand , had apparently been interfering with military radio frequencies , and the armed forces sought the removal from the Cabinet of Police Capt. Chalerm Yubamrung , a Minister attached to the Prime Minister 's Office , when Chalerm publicly criticized the military over the affair . |
| 4 | She was saved from that particular choice by a boy of about seven , who had apparently been playing with his train set in the porch . |
| 5 | Falconer had apparently been playing with the letters of the name , breaking them up , distancing each from the other . |
| 6 | He had obviously been arguing with it — when Masklin walked up he glared at him and said , ‘ It wo n't do what I tell it ! ’ |
| 7 | All this would be understandable , of course , if these local forces had merely been dealing with minor coastal raiding , and one can not always be sure that their enemies were very numerous . |
| 8 | He had merely been playing with her . |
| 9 | Their potential has already been recognised and exploited in other fields — schools will not so much be moving with the times as running to catch up . |
| 10 | It is rather expensive — there are so many competing demands for the raw material — so you will naturally be sparing with it . |
| 11 | In doing so they will not only be dealing with grief and loss , but also rethinking their own daily living arrangements . |
| 12 | Although this aquarium will hold a fair number of young fish , problems will rapidly arise when they grow , so we will only be dealing with three or four fish . |
| 13 | Tickets are available by postal application only , and they will only be dealing with applications between monday 6th , and thursday 9th of December . |
| 14 | Although UCTA does not say so , the section must here only be dealing with sales or hire purchase of goods made to the consumer in the course of a business , because s 6(2) only protects persons dealing as consumers , and a person can only deal as a consumer if the person with whom he is dealing deals in his turn in the course of a business . |
| 15 | I 've told the teeniest weeniest white lie and said that I will only be staying with you for a week or so . " |
| 16 | But the illusion is soon shattered … the moored sailing vessel alongside is heaving with 65 members of a film crew . |
| 17 | The creek immediately below was bobbing with the brightly painted Maltese fishing-boats , the luzzu , and the dghajjes , the bigger water-taxis , rocking gently on aquamarine water . |
| 18 | So was dealing with the repercussions when we distributed the finally agreed programme . |
| 19 | As a result , Kandel began to make the sort of experiments that those working on the biochemistry of memory had already been struggling with ; adding radioactive precursors of protein to isolated ganglia or to cells in a dish , trying to identify the protein products , and to distinguish those made uniquely or in raised quantities during memory formation from the many others . |
| 20 | At almost a year old , Piment would have already been experimenting with solid food for a few months , though probably more in play than serious eating . |
| 21 | So Trumbull started moving the camera in and out , and stopped the lens down to a tiny aperture for maximum depth of field ( he had already been experimenting with zoom lenses for the cockpit readouts in other sequences ) . |
| 22 | Rachel , who had already been battling with unpredictable sensations brought on by the close proximity of David clad only in his brief black swimming-trunks , felt her cheeks flame and could n't bring herself to look at him . |
| 23 | An agricultural relief committee was established in 1983 by a handful of young agricultural engineers , some of whom had already been working with ‘ the voluntary work committees ’ , a network of skilled and unskilled workers which had been operating since the mid-1970s . |
| 24 | Well , but I 've just been conversing with ghosts myself . |
| 25 | Over his face quivered shades of the sniggers he had just been enjoying with his mates . |
| 26 | Now she saw that he had just been dealing with the easy , practical part first . |
| 27 | I 've , I 've just been dealing with that in a booklet . |
| 28 | I had just been talking with Jenny about her family , yourself and Mrs Connon , that same Saturday night . ’ |
| 29 | I 've just been shopping with Maggie this morning . |
| 30 | He had a half-beard and he looked dirty , as if he had just been working with hammers and bricks and wood and chisels . |