Example sentences of "be [prep] us for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Leslie had a very good lot of men in his section , some of them had been with us for a long time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Well we all know from our own history books that fire has been with us for a long long time has n't it ? |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | It is a growing problem partly and one that is likely to be with us for a long time . |
| 7 | It is likely to be with us for a long time to come . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | One day during the early summer , Guy Gibson of Dam Busters fame flew in to Bourn and was with us for a few hours . |