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Example sentences for "there being"

  • After having done my business at the office I home, and there I found Coleman come again to my house, and with my wife in our great chamber, which vexed me, there being a bed therein.

  • He tells me his opinion that it is out of possibility for us to escape being undone, there being nothing in our power to do that is necessary for the saving us: a lazy Prince, no Council, no money, no reputation at home or abroad.

  • Batten's; where all to be undone for want of money, there being none to pay the Chest at their publique pay the 24th of this month, which will make us a scorn to the world.

  • Upon the walls it is possible to make the whole compass of the city, there being a good but narrow walk upon them.

  • They might have done so with perfect safety, there being an old proverb—he need not repeat it—which would have secured them from drowning had the pool been not merely over the tops of the houses but over the tops of the steeples.

  • I had long tasks every day to do with Mr. Mell; but I did them, there being no Mr. and Miss Murdstone here, and got through them without disgrace.

  • Now, the church which gives its name to the lane, stood in a less free situation at that time; there being no open space before it, and the lane winding down to the Strand.

  • There being no woman this day, we sat in the foremost pew, and behind us our servants, and I hope it will not always be so, it not being handsome for our servants to sit so equal with us.

  • How true this is I cannot tell, there being no newes of it at all at Court, as I am told late by one come thence, so that I hope it is not so.

  • Here was discourse about a way of paying our old creditors which did please me, there being hopes of getting them comprehended within the 11 months Tax, and this did give occasion for Sir G.

  • At noon home and, there being business to do in the afternoon, took my Lord Bruncker home with me, who dined with me.

  • Batten's, where I hear the news how our Embassadors were but ill received at Flushing, nor at Bredah itself, there being only a house and no furniture provided for them, though it be said that they have as much as the French.

  • So home with my mind at very great ease, over the water to the Tower, and thence, there being nobody at the office, we being absent, and so no office could be kept.

  • After dinner up to my Lord, there being Mr. Kumball.

  • Mrs Smith would hardly have believed so soon in Mr Elliot's failure, but from the perception of there being a somebody else.

  • The two families had always been on excellent terms, there being no pride on one side, and no envy on the other, and only such a consciousness of superiority in the Miss Musgroves, as made them pleased to improve their cousins.

  • She had called on her former governess, and had heard from her of there being an old school-fellow in Bath, who had the two strong claims on her attention of past kindness and present suffering.

  • Anne had very sincerely rejoiced in there being no means of her going.

  • At Paris, Condorcet is busy writing in his journal that "this news is not reliable, there being no object in it but to create a French empire beyond the seas for the King, where there will be masters and slaves.

  • A striking coincidence is found in there being 400 members of the Troyes club at this time.

  • There being no way to arrest the progress of the raft they clung fast to the logs and let the river sweep them on.

  • So, there being no honey-bees here, I've eaten nothing for years.

  • But this is no Body Politique, there being no Common Representative to oblige them to any other Law, than that which is common to all other subjects.

  • There you may get the best, there being no court I know of that forms more well-bred, and agreeable people.

  • There being now no force in the field, but the two hundred light infantry, under Gen.

  • Francis settled himself in St. John's, at a place called Pond Bluff, from the circumstance of there being a pond at the bottom of a bluff, fronting the river low grounds.

  • There being no alternative, he then drew up his men in open ground, with two field pieces in the centre, and one on the right.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "there being" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    butt joint; fill them; flash floods; hardly worth; hundred head; said sadly; simple justice; there any; there appeared; there being; there could; there had; there has; there lived; there might; there must; there never; there seems; there shall; there she; there should; there the; there wasn; there were; there would have been; under the present system