Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] with [pron] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recently heard of a family who invited to church some friends who were staying with them for the weekend . |
| 2 | If so , it was at Combwich ( pronounced ‘ Cummage ’ ) that Coleridge first set foot within that secluded , forgotten territory , bounded by the Quantock Hills and a bleakly impressive coastline , which was to remain with him for the rest of his life . |
| 3 | Naturally he would assume that Richard was staying with her for the weekend . |
| 4 | The question of what he was to do with himself for the rest of his life was never properly resolved in his mind or anyone else 's , which perhaps accounts for his periodic assaults on the whiskey bottle — what Minto called ‘ Warnie 's benders ’ . |
| 5 | Jazz 's target was to stay with him for the full four minutes . |