Example sentences of "[v-ing] with [pers pn] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Both parents were able to devote a great deal of time to their son , walking with him in the park or going for carriage drives , sometimes as far as La Malmaison , for which Napoleon III had a special affection because of its links with his mother and grandmother . |
| 3 | When I close my eyes and imagine fatherhood , I see all the standard clichés : John Jr walking with me in the park , a football dribbling at his chubby little feet ; John Jr passing me a spanner as I lie underneath the motorbike ; John Jr asking me to read him that story one more time because I read it so well . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They actually set up villages , which are in erm you know usually in rural er surroundings , and erm er they have erm usually I mean they 're mentally-disabled people there , and erm er they set up the village so that there are able- bodied people in there , and yet they live with the er mentally disabled people , you know they have houses and they the erm in inverted commas normal people have erm children and all this sort of thing , erm and yet they have erm er some of these mentally defective people living with them in the house , |
| 6 | By Tuesday she was flirting with me in a sweet , old-fashioned way , blue eyes as young as her memory . |
| 7 | And Theodora recounted her meeting with her in the drive at the Julians ' house . |
| 8 | Without answering , he covered her parted lips with his own , his tongue entwining with hers in a kiss as deep and sensitive as his ultimate possession of her body . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I bet they probably be really competing with them in a way wo n't we cos they 've got all the same sort of stuff . |
| 11 | She insisted quietly on halving the bill and he let her have her way , not wanting to jeopardize his chance of eating with her in the future . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm surprised that Doreen is n't out here now — strolling with you in the moonlight — instead of my humble self . ’ |
| 13 | She could not picture him behind the grim walls of Swansea Prison , instead she remembered him riding with her in the park , smiling down at her with his dark eyes , making her feel so small and helpless . |
| 14 | After that I was put with foster parents , staying with them in the country for about nine months . |
| 15 | For example , you could reward a child for staying with you in the supermarket by buying a small treat as you leave . |
| 16 | The further reading I recommend can help you to challenge some commonly held assumptions about where stress comes from , and should help you to structure your own plan for coping with it in a way which is appropriate to you personally . |
| 17 | Once a man she 'd never met before , a man called Peter who did n't seem to have a wife , kept dancing with her in the Godsons ' house , holding her very close , in a way that quite upset her and yet was pleasurable . |
| 18 | Whilst drinking with them in a pub Minton had become very attracted to one of Wirth-Miller 's friends , a sailor called Hogey Carmichael . |
| 19 | Now we may never know what secrets it was towing with it in the clouds . |
| 20 | The American New Critics remained true to the spirit of Richards 's work by emphasizing the distinctive properties of literature or poetry , and by dealing with them in a way which was not only empiricist , humanistic and organicist , but also theoretical as well . |
| 21 | Dealing with them in an honest , open way diffuses the objections . |
| 22 | Speaker B keeps returning to the same point , his first statement , dealing with it in a variety of ways , and we get three different and slightly conflicting evaluations of his action in discussing sex openly with his pupils ( it 's daring , it 's unsystematic , it 's something anyway ) . |
| 23 | Farmers produce between five and six million tonnes of surplus straw a year — with the ban on stubble-burning , they 're going to be spending alot more of their time dealing with it in the future . |
| 24 | It would n't have been so bad , of course , if it had only been him , but there was that second-year nurse whom she had accused of loitering with him in the corridor — that was going to take some fancy footwork to get out of without loss of face . |
| 25 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 26 | They each had a radiator beside their beds , and very often when I was on night duty J. would return to bed very late ( or should I say early ? ) , after having been sitting with me in the Met Office , drinking coffee , chatting and so forth . |
| 27 | And yet here she was , sitting with him in the conservatory , her hand held in his , blushing beneath his gaze . |
| 28 | There was to her something romantic about the idea of sitting with him in the place where she had so often sat alone , eating a poached egg or macaroni cheese at a shaky little oak table . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | A couple of hours later Masha , placated , was standing with us in the workroom of Sigmund Freud in Hampstead . |