Example sentences of "[v-ing] with [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I could see you grappling with it on a daily basis , ’ he drawled softly . |
| 2 | I think that he , who could have had as many friends as he wished , never realized how much it meant to a lonely and friendless person to have a friend , to be seen walking with him in the rose-red streets of Salamanca , to be able to go to a concert or an art museum with him , to have him opposite me at dinner in even the meanest , cheapest restaurant . |
| 3 | The doctor was walking with them towards the private rooms . |
| 4 | Nine others are appearing with him at the commital proceedings . |
| 5 | Nine others are appearing with him at the commital proceedings . |
| 6 | and trading with them as a happier and satisfied customer . |
| 7 | So far , we have argued that people in modern Britain give great importance to their immediate family , that is their husband or wife and children living with them in the same house . |
| 8 | Jean Campbell , in 1817 , was an uneducated deaf person without any speech who could only write the initials of her name in reverse order , eg. C.J. She was an unmarried woman who had three children by different men , one of whom at the time of her arrest in April 1817 had been living with her as a common law husband but who had a few days earlier taken off the ring that he had given to her and which she wore on her finger in the fashion of a married woman , and had left home . |
| 9 | About fifteen years ago , we had a Nigerian girl living with us for a few months before her marriage , and she was married from our house . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm perfectly content to go on living with you under the original terms . |
| 11 | By Tuesday she was flirting with me in a sweet , old-fashioned way , blue eyes as young as her memory . |
| 12 | But what made her feel even guiltier was the simple fact that , somehow , no matter how hard she tried , she could n't imagine Arnie lying with her in the big blue bed . |
| 13 | Dare I repeat a story I 've told before about a friend , an unscrupulous bloke , canvassing with me for a local election in Wandsworth ? |
| 14 | I used it every day in my writing and after reading the Simontons ' book Getting Well Again , had started toying with it as an anti-cancer technique almost as soon as I left hospital . |
| 15 | Sticking with it for the long haul , typically 5–7 years . |
| 16 | Maria 's sister is ill , so she will be staying with her for a few days . ’ |
| 17 | Erm Sandy 's staying with her for a few days . |
| 18 | Erm , Sandy 's staying with her for a few days . |
| 19 | ‘ Lady Isabel will be staying with us for a short time . |
| 20 | ‘ She 's been staying with us for a few days . ’ |
| 21 | She lived in a dream of love from the moment that he had bowed over her hand when she had been introduced to him by Daisy Warwick at Warwick Castle , and murmured , ‘ Not an American Princess , surely , but a true one , ’ and later that evening , dancing with her for the third time , he had said into her ear , ‘ And can a princess stoop to a mere marquess ? ’ |
| 22 | It may be distinguished from this kind of guidance from another American source : ‘ Separate any group of offending youths , dealing with them on a one-to-one … basis ’ ( Grotophorst , 1979 , pp.349–50 ) . |
| 23 | I understand that the social services want to help people , but sometimes one can help people a bit more by nipping problems in the bud and dealing with them at an earlier stage . |
| 24 | Dealing with them in an honest , open way diffuses the objections . |
| 25 | And the judge tried effectively to ‘ settle ’ the matter by dealing with it through the ordinary channels of taxation . |
| 26 | Officials there are believed to be dealing with it as a private matter . |
| 27 | ‘ In future cases where a new regime comes to power unconstitutionally our attitude on the question of whether it qualifies to be treated as a government , will be left to be inferred from the nature of the dealings , if any , which we may have with it , and in particular on whether we are dealing with it on a normal government to government basis . |
| 28 | I could apply their larger statements about the futility of life to the smaller futility of my own , at the same time identifying with them in the literal sense and recognising the irony inherent in any such identification . |
| 29 | Often the counsellor of ageing people will experience this when , after talking with them for a short period , many of the pressures and worries appear to be visibly lifted from their shoulders . |
| 30 | Now that I had my dolls and their dolls ' houses , I set about playing with them with the greatest pleasure , and when I visited Wood Green I shut my eyes to some of the realities . |