Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] with " in BNC.
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| 31 | Well I even say the originally , he was going to come over with Robert stuff |
| 32 | Well , George was going to come up with a translation . |
| 33 | She was forced to crouch in the bowels of the machine with her knees up around her ears , her elbows jammed against the interior dispensing machinery and her back wedged so tightly against the shelf supports that she was going to come out with her spine looking like a piece of corrugated duralinium . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | He knew , too , that his lack of sleep was beginning to catch up with him . |
| 36 | BR 's corporate planning was reformed to fit in with the new structure by devolving responsibility for planning largely to the five businesses and by developing ‘ action plans ’ to commit lower level management to business objectives ( Heath 1984 : 221 ) . |
| 37 | And she would have to leave whatever she was doing to sit in with him while he briefed her on what he intended to do , and why . |
| 38 | She smelt ; the contents of the carts smelt ; the cart itself was impregnated with stench ; and here was this gleaming child , yes , aye , that was a word to describe her , she gleamed , and she was asking to come along with her . |
| 39 | Since when he 'd left her alone again , and Dolly was having to put up with the April breeze . |
| 40 | If only Anne could see her now , dressed as she was , knew the sort of man she was having to put up with ! |
| 41 | Or as a laboratory supervisor , who was asked to go along with the manufacture of ‘ doctored ’ data so as to secure a contract deadline put it ( Vandivier 1972:22 ) : |
| 42 | I was asked to clean down with blanket wash and then run over with a clean polishing rag . |
| 43 | He admired them duly and was forced to join in with a chorus of auld lang syne downstairs . |
| 44 | It can only get tougher for the tourists when they face a resurgent Wales at the Arms Park on Saturday , although home hopes of upsetting the world champions were delivered a huge blow yesterday , when Swansea full-back Tony Clement was forced to pull out with a stress fracture of the leg . |
| 45 | And , after his return to England at the beginning of the year , he was forced to catch up with all the work he had neglected . |
| 46 | The sun was preparing to go out with a fury , blazing the clouds crimson and gold and firing the sea purple . |
| 47 | It was only because her mother approved so strongly of Pogo that she was allowed to go out with him to places like this , and then , as often as not , her mother insisted that Aubrey went too . |
| 48 | The gaoler was appointed , made his living as best as he could from bribes , favours , anxious relatives and profits from the already meagre food allocation — and was allowed to get on with it . |
| 49 | I was trying to catch up with you , but I could n't . ’ |
| 50 | They were n't doing anything — they were just being polite — but Nigel was slightly afraid that the artist was trying to get off with Eleanor . |
| 51 | Especially when he was trying to get off with her . |
| 52 | Former England opener Geoff Boycott chased and caught a thief who was trying to make off with his golf clubs and a holdall at King 's Cross station in London recently . |
| 53 | He was tempted to come out with the stuff about Michael and the IRA . |
| 54 | They replaced their kitchen crockery with simple black and white octagonal glassware crockery and even the car was changed to fit in with the new image — their champagne-coloured Ford was replaced with a grey and red Peugeot . |