Example sentences of "be [prep] [pron] for [art] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Leslie had a very good lot of men in his section , some of them had been with us for a long time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Well we all know from our own history books that fire has been with us for a long long time has n't it ? |
| 8 | It has been with us for the past 10 years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He has n't been in it for a long time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is a growing problem partly and one that is likely to be with us for a long time . |
| 13 | It is likely to be with us for a long time to come . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | machine until Monday and then though we 'll take him off , of course being on it for a long period |
| 18 | She 'd been at it for the past half-hour , ever since she 'd arrived to interrupt Rory 's precious sunbathing break . |
| 19 | CAPE FEAR ( CIC ) Scorsese 's dazzling noir remake disappointed some , but is worth it for the directional flash , De Niro 's grotesque hamming , and current gawk of the town Juliette Lewis |
| 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 | ‘ I fell for him at once and he seemed attracted to me , but that was all there was to it for a long time . |