Example sentences of "[prep] we for a " in BNC.
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1 | She looked pleadingly at Tamar as she said , ‘ Mebbe when t'summer comes , your Mam 'll let thoo come and stop wi' us for a few days . ’ |
2 | I anticipated the calling up of daemons , conversations with the dead , Anubis and Osiris joining the two of us for a ride on the ghost train at the palace pier . |
3 | I think it would be for us to talk together , the four of us for a start , and er , and bring proper proposals to future meetings would n't it ? |
4 | My first stop was at the Halcyon Days stand where I found Mrs Benjamin with her husband ; she runs the wonderful Halcyon Days shop in Brook Street , which is such a godsend to so many of us for an attractive last-minute present . |
5 | So dress like us for an hour or so : come close , come closer : brush up against us if that 's what you want . |
6 | Let the road run beneath us for a while . |
7 | He screwed up his eyes and said , ‘ We should have the sun against us for a bit . |
8 | It is a growing problem partly and one that is likely to be with us for a long time . |
9 | It is likely to be with us for a long time to come . ’ |
10 | 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 . |
11 | She 'd been with us for a year when we went for a day 's walk in the country . |
12 | Leslie had a very good lot of men in his section , some of them had been with us for a long time . |
13 | ‘ Let's invite him to stay with us for a few days , then you can ask him yourself . ’ |
14 | 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 . ’ |
15 | Our younger daughter came with us for a year to Australia , where Michael had a visiting Professorship at Sydney University . |
16 | About fifteen years ago , we had a Nigerian girl living with us for a few months before her marriage , and she was married from our house . |
17 | He stayed with us for a while in Salisbury early in 1921 and I can still hear him thumping away on the piano singing his favourite song ‘ Signora ’ in a not very tuneful voice . |
18 | These young London detectives would come out with us for a meal , after we 'd finished the court-work , go down to several famous pubs , and order several drinks . |
19 | One day during the early summer , Guy Gibson of Dam Busters fame flew in to Bourn and was with us for a few hours . |
20 | Though these problems are a characteristic feature of modern life , they have been with us for a very long time . |
21 | ‘ Sara Lee 's been playing with us for a while ; it was Scott Litt ( REM producer ) who recommended her , and I love the way she plays bass . |
22 | Looking ahead , we are privileged to have with us for a Conference on 23rd & 24th October , Roger Forster , leader of the Icthus Fellowship in London . |
23 | Fashion and make-up have been with us for a very long time indeed — there are make-up palettes surviving from ancient Egypt — and although men in certain times and cultures may devote a lot of effort to their appearance , it has remained chiefly a feminine domain . |
24 | All we ask of you in return is to buy at least one book from each of the Reviews and stay with us for a minimum of six issues . |
25 | It 's also a way of saying that Pentiums will be with us for a while , overlapping the life cycles of both the 80486 and P6 , and that it will be some time yet before they reach a competitive price-performance curve . |
26 | It 's also a way of saying that Pentiums will be with us for a while , overlapping the life cycles of both the 80486 and P6 , and that it will be some time yet before they reach a competitive price/performance curve . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | And so therefore , as we did in our case , would like erm some indication o er of whether or not er he could and this was his suggestion er give up his current lease which runs out next year and take on a new lease with us for a period . |
29 | The biggest developments in men 's fashion in the past few years — the explosion of sportswear in everyday clothes , the return of knitwear and the gradual softening of the suit 's construction — are more than likely to stay with us for a good few seasons yet . |
30 | Well we all know from our own history books that fire has been with us for a long long time has n't it ? |