Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv prt] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These people are going into the familiar local stores where they shop and are walking out with the American dream they could never afford on a minimum wage . |
| 2 | But while you 're keeping up with the latest ‘ squirrel-proof ’ bird feeders and designer nest-boxes , do keep a critical eye open , too . |
| 3 | our next stop is over in Herefordshire at Ross on Wye … we 're meeting up with a young tennis player who 's won himself a place at the world 's top coaching clinic … the story of Tim Bibby is our Friday Feature |
| 4 | ‘ So you 're going out with the black kid , the messenger ? ’ |
| 5 | Yeah yeah yeah and they they 're coming back with the three separate quotes . |
| 6 | And he frets too that son Rob and daughter Heather are growing up with a part-time father . |
| 7 | Course I di I did n't get to know much else but it was obvious you see , she 'd been going out with a young man , her husband was in the Forces and er she 'd tried to get rid of it . |
| 8 | When she was nineteen she had been going out with a steady boyfriend for three years , and they had decided to get married . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been going out with the same person for five years , ’ he reveals . |
| 10 | We are moving on with the medical services . |
| 11 | Tonight she would far rather have been getting on with a hundred and one other things , but conscience had dictated that she must get the books finished first . |
| 12 | They 're occupying themselves writing out an account of their movements since Lorrimer was last seen alive and the local force are getting on with the preliminary checking of alibis . |
| 13 | Environmentalists have complained that in contrast to road-building programmes , for example , no attempt has been made to assess the cost of intangible environmental losses to the community , as against financial benefits to the farmer ; that calculations of benefit have assumed unrealistic yields and excessively speedy rates of take-up by farmers ; that there is a reluctance to design low-level flood protection , even when farmers are getting by with an arable crop in most years ; that the inevitable patching of eroding banks as a river reacts to the engineering constraints put upon it is never allowed for in the costs ; and that the benefits anticipated from a drainage schemes are based on what are known as ‘ farm-gate prices ’ received by farmers for their crops . |
| 14 | Appeals over the nurses ' regrading are coming through with no extra cash to pay for them , and , ironically , in the Thames regions the slump in house prices has slowed staff turnover ; vacancy levels , which helped balance the books at the cost of quality and volume of service , are lower . |
| 15 | The moguls are coming up with a new gimmick to get audiences to see movies they have ALREADY seen . |
| 16 | " Tilda , have you been tinkering about with the musical box ? " |
| 17 | So if you are starting out with a good deal of weight to shed , it is wise to allow scope for reducing calorie intake in the later stages of dieting . |
| 18 | But trampolining wo n't be catching on with the other animals . |
| 19 | If suffering a ropey marriage automatically led to that sort of state of grace , half the women in the country would be walking round with an outsize halo above their head . |
| 20 | Nobody would be wandering about with the sharpened shaft of a golf club , just in case it came in handy . |
| 21 | So that 's why I 'm going around with a little machine and a microphone on |
| 22 | David Puttnam will be going round with a quiet smile on his face for a few days . |
| 23 | Or maybe she was happy at the fact that , in a few minutes , after a couple of minutes ' contact with Clara Beeding 's right mitt , she would be skipping around with the best of them . |
| 24 | Filip also said IBM 's development group in Toronto would be coming out with a distributed , relational database in mid-1993 . |
| 25 | It seemed eminently believable that you , or possibly your family , had been annoyed , devastated — whatever — on finding out that your grandfather had been playing around with a young Irish girl , and had sent you over to demand an explanation , exact retribution … ’ |
| 26 | and er I thought er , I 've been playing about with the old ear for a song for a long time , but I ai n't worked the cords out |
| 27 | They were catching up with an interrupted past , not forestalling a proletarian future . |
| 28 | Whilst the pathfinders had the original control of H2S , developments were going on with a fair measure of practical input from Bennett and his friends at TRE , and eventually a superior set was devised and known as the 3cm HS . |
| 29 | You said yesterday you were going along with the Irish |
| 30 | Jordan is catching up with the Western world . |