Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chemistry had been between them from the start , waiting only for a wayward spark to ignite it . |
| 2 | He 'd never been through it since the time Barry had locked him in . |
| 3 | They 're in it for the love of the game . |
| 4 | Er they are n't but they I think they 're in it on the canvas . |
| 5 | And while you 're at it with the bin get yourself a tissue as well , to wipe your nose . |
| 6 | Get those who are with you on the mat to sit down so that the emergency services have a clear view across the area and can move quickly in the event of accident . |
| 7 | Thirdly , it involved saying that ‘ the general principles of the constitution ( as for example the right to personal liberty , or the right of public meeting ) are with us as the result of judicial decisions determining the rights of private persons in particular cases brought before the courts ’ . |
| 8 | The ‘ Minister of the Crown ’ role was hung on little Colin Moynihan for a day or two while everyone tried not to laugh ; he was , after all , only just over five foot tall and Minister for Sport and he had , after all , not slept with Pamella , only been with her at the Winter Ball . |
| 9 | The old man had been with her in the shop that morning , the same as ever , gossiping about the business , about the vagaries of their customers , the oddities of town councillors and the perverseness of families — all with a humour that was wickedly spiced . |
| 10 | ‘ I knew my mum because she 'd been with me at the hospital and I remembered my grandad because of his bald head . |
| 11 | Today , too ; how I wished you had been with me at the concert . |
| 12 | In early January 1988 about a dozen friends and colleagues , the same people who had been with me on the day John was kidnapped , met at my flat . |
| 13 | I went out and found in the court two corpses interlocked ; they were the bodies of the two young men who had before been with me in the room ... |
| 14 | Prince , he said , ‘ has been with me from the commencement of my various works . |
| 15 | Macmillan then flew back to Treviso to drop off the various Eighth Army officers who had been with him at the conference , had " a short chat " with Gen McCreery , and returned with Philip Broad to Caserta . |
| 16 | Atkins and the other man who had been with him during the doorstep confrontation on Boxing Night were waiting . |
| 17 | Burton wrote , with typical flaring generosity ( like his fellow Welshman , Henry VII , he never forgot those who had been with him around the campfire when the crown was hardly even a dream in unreal England ) : |
| 18 | In Tolkien , by huge contrast , he met a man whose style had been with him from the beginning . |
| 19 | But his fascination with motion , the ‘ gate of natural philosophy ’ , had probably been with him from the beginning of that decade . |
| 20 | ‘ I further assert that these spores have been with us since the birth of mankind . |
| 21 | Apples have been with us since the dawn of time , in countless varieties of colour , shape and size . |
| 22 | … atmospheric pollution has been with us since the creation ; it became much worse … with the Garden of Eden and infinitely worse following the mechanical ingenuity of James Watt . |
| 23 | I have been with you since the start of the magazine in 1978 and have every issue published , as well as the two Year Books . |
| 24 | It is good work , this , Angus , it is bringing the thing home to plenty folk who have only been in it for the furore so far , for the chance to squeeze their girls in the crowd and all that kind of thing . |
| 25 | And there 's another side to that which is that some people in the statutory provision are in it for the money , for their careers , for empire building and so on . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , persevere with the psychotherapy — it will be worth it in the end . |
| 27 | Sullivan , the parish priest says : ‘ It will be worth it in the end , though I hope there will be an end before too long ’ . |
| 28 | It would be worth it in the end . |
| 29 | He could not see Dhani but calculated that he might by now be opposite him in the north transept . |
| 30 | ‘ It means the women can come in then still go home to pick the kids up from school , or be with them in the evening . ’ |