Example sentences of "be with [pron] [prep] a long " 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 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 .
6 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 .
7 It is a growing problem partly and one that is likely to be with us for a long time .
8 It is likely to be with us for a long time to come . ’
9 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 .
10 My brother was with her for a long while .
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