Sentence examples for be billeted with from inspiring English sources

Anaya had asked to be billeted with a family with children her age; instead she was allocated to a childless couple, both of whom were 18 years old and who mostly ignored her for the duration of her stay, although they did leave explicit instructions to clean out their rabbit hutch.

Reubens, a resident of Bruges, was fortunate to be billeted with Colonel Herbert Davies- Evans of Highmead, near Llanwenog.

Loudoun encountered opposition in the General Court (the provincial assembly) to a demand that British troops be billeted with civilians in Boston, and threatened to march additional troops into the province and take housing by force.

A German officer is billeted with them.

Two little city children have been billeted with the shephered of a large estate.

After the war he went to England to learn English and was billeted with a Jewish family in Golders Green.

The two children, orphan and half orphan, are billeted with a benign but ineffectual landlady, Mrs. Bulpit, whose husband, she tells them, dropped dead while having his afternoon tea.

She had no time for semantics: whether to include deaths outside the city walls, whether the plain-clothes soldiers had been billeted with civilians, and so on.

Because of their low pay and poor supplies, Mr. Crouch said, the military in the Malukus has been broken into small units that are billeted with local residents.

Two United Nations military observers -- a Malaysian and a Thai -- are billeted with the Indonesians on the western side of the river.

Ernest had a post as a magistrate in Hong Kong, so the children were billeted with nannies and various relatives in England.