Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] [v-ing] with " in BNC.
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1 | He ate dinner and all she could remember was living with him in London ; when they rented a flat , he would n't let her cook . |
2 | I think it would have been the Zetland , and — who knows — Mrs Field may have been riding with them that day . |
3 | In 1822 Elizabeth 's son Robert was baptised at the Mile End Old Town Zion Chapel on Union Street , built by devotees of Lady Huntingdon 's Connexion ; the young boy , then 13 , may well have been staying with his uncle Samuel at the time , the latter having married three years previously . |
4 | I suppose in the old days , if we 'd been like you , she 'd have been living with us as a matter of course . ’ |
5 | He 'd have been undertaking with this man . |
6 | The entire college must have been humming with gossip and speculation . |
7 | I knew that when at last I was demobilised from the Waaf I would have to return to my peacetime occupation as a secretary in London , for the simple reason that my employers had been paying me my full salary all the time I had been in the Forces , that is , making up the difference between my Waaf pay and what I would have been earning with them . |
8 | The fishing , the slides of Tenerife were all irrelevant ; he should have been dealing with Steen . |
9 | But nor does it matter ; ‘ our club ’ will have been seething with talk for days , and ‘ I ’ am bound to have heard about Stavrogin 's escapade . |
10 | Since Alice had long since been betrothed to Richard the studied vagueness of the phrase " to whichever of his sons married her " suggests that Henry may have been toying with the idea of marrying her not to Richard but to John . |
11 | I mean what else what what sort of size pension fund would you have been negotiating with a a business ? |
12 | ‘ In that case , tell me what you were doing modelling shorts when you should have been rehearsing with the wedding dress you 're to wear at the show . ’ |
13 | ‘ No one … ’ began Sally-Anne passionately , thinking of all that she had seen since arriving in Vetch Street — the poor creatures in Dr Neil 's surgery , and the even poorer ones who could not afford to go there — and of Dr Neil 's own selflessness letting people off their bills , so that only the small income he still received from an aunt 's legacy allowed him to keep going at all , when he could have been revelling with Stair . |
14 | th you er I mean if it were very heavy you 'd almost sort of be prepared for it to go , but you know when you 're s s standing with a , something quite light , and you might have been standing with it a little while in your hand , and then suddenly the hand goes and ca n't you see that 's ve that 's very upsetting , it makes you not very confident . |
15 | They may have been suffering with anything from stress-related migraines to pre-menstrual tension . |
16 | Its owner is upset by what 's happened , but feels Mark should n't have been playing with the dog in the first place . |
17 | Normally Paul would have been circulating with the best of them , oiling the wheels . |