Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [verb] [adv prt] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're standing hunched up with the dull awareness of the hard graft . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , two stragglers and a dog are running to catch up with the main party ( 2 ) . |
| 3 | However , it too is thought to be moving to catch up with the market . |
| 4 | They seem to be trying to catch up with the West of the Fifties . ’ |
| 5 | Surely she could n't be planning to go along with the lies . |
| 6 | We are trying to keep up with the Germans , whose central bankers call their four and a half per cent inflation rate monstrously high , and would barely tolerate a return to two per cent . |
| 7 | ‘ My mother especially is becoming worn out with the constant caring and the sleepless nights . ’ |
| 8 | How she was goin' to put up with the wee 'un 's fancy talk and fancy ways , she did n't know . |
| 9 | The German Siemens was in a stronger position in several ways ; in addition to its computer and telecommunications equipment strengths , Siemens in the late 1980S was attempting to catch up with the vertically integrated Japanese electronics companies ; it was making a major chip effort , with use by the German car industry especially in mind . |
| 10 | He really gets steamed up if they 're left open , you 'd think somebody was going to run off with the timber mill . ’ |
| 11 | She assumed that , having had time to think things over , he was going to come back with the decision to tell Marc everything that had led up to this crazy engagement of theirs . |
| 12 | Carrington was directed to a nearby farmhouse where ‘ a tall , dark German airman had been arrested at the sharp end of a pitchfork ’ to find only another crowd of excited neighbours and a labourer called Davie Maclean who was getting fed up with the whole affair . |
| 13 | Since when he 'd left her alone again , and Dolly was having to put up with the April breeze . |