Example sentences of "be [prep] [pron] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been after them for a long time and I 'll get them for this . ’ |
| 2 | I remember at the time Wilko saying how he though Kerslake was an excellent buy , and how he 'd been after him for a long time . |
| 3 | After more than 20 years of Medau teaching in Edinburgh , Muriel Jessop is taking the step of handing over her class — much to the sadness of her class members , some of whom have been with her for a larger number of those years . |
| 4 | You 've been with me for a whole week now and you might just as well have been a girl , or a boy without balls . |
| 5 | And I remember to this day , though I was so small , that mother was very angry with me , for unclothing myself before the servant , who was a very nice girl who had been with us for a long time . |
| 6 | Leslie had a very good lot of men in his section , some of them had been with us for a long time . |
| 7 | Of course the phenomenological approach has been with us for a long time , and has been the primary source of evidence in the psychoanalytic tradition . |
| 8 | Well we all know from our own history books that fire has been with us for a long long time has n't it ? |
| 9 | When Shanti had been with us for a few days , a friend said to me , ‘ I saw Michael out with the baby in the pram , and I do n't think I 've seen a man look happier in my life . ’ |
| 10 | Never get bored with the fact that you 've been with someone for a long time , it 's a good thing , not a bad thing . |
| 11 | He has n't been in it for a long time . |
| 12 | It was about time she stopped feeling sorry for herself , the hurt and pain of losing mam would be with her for a long time , but Hari knew she could not let her grief incapacitate her , if she did not mend and make shoes she did not eat . |
| 13 | You know he 's twenty two , twenty three years old , you know , you know whatever he 's doing he 's liable to be with him for a few years yet and what can one see |
| 14 | It is a growing problem partly and one that is likely to be with us for a long time . |
| 15 | It is likely to be with us for a long time to come . ’ |
| 16 | Within a month of the start of the war it was beginning to appreciate its mistake , but the consequences will be with us for a long time to come . |
| 17 | Claudia felt as if she were drowning in a pool of conflicting emotions ; the last thing she wanted was to go anywhere with Roman and yet the thought of being with him for a little while longer filled her with delight . |
| 18 | It is true that it has been forecast as being upon us for a long time , but things are now really moving in some areas . |
| 19 | machine until Monday and then though we 'll take him off , of course being on it for a long period |
| 20 | Am I right in saying that Susan 's with us for a full year every Wednesday and John is supposed to be with us for a term but it 's been extended has n't it |
| 21 | My brother was with her for a long while . |
| 22 | One day during the early summer , Guy Gibson of Dam Busters fame flew in to Bourn and was with us for a few hours . |
| 23 | ‘ I fell for him at once and he seemed attracted to me , but that was all there was to it for a long time . |