Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [pron] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're for it for patriotic reasons . |
| 2 | He has n't been near me for three years . ’ |
| 3 | And I said yes , I said you know what Sue can be like , you 've been with her for twelve months and you 're daft enough |
| 4 | I 'd been with her for 12 hours at the delivery of her beautiful baby daughter . |
| 5 | He said , ‘ I had been with her for three years , in love . |
| 6 | He 's been with her for three days now . |
| 7 | Been with me for many years . |
| 8 | And she 'd already been with me for several years before we met , so you felt that perhaps she knew me better than you did , and you hated that . ’ |
| 9 | To them he gave detailed care now as always : most had been with him for many years . |
| 10 | ‘ And , ’ Claire continued , confirming her misgivings , ‘ his heart is tied up with a woman , one who has been with him for many years now . ’ |
| 11 | He 'd been with them for twenty seven years . |
| 12 | Well I like my mum and dad here ( adoptive parents ) 'cause I 've been with them for some years , but there again , I like my own father as well ... we still think of him and would like to go and visit him . |
| 13 | He had been with them for some time ; two or three years before , he had told her that he did n't know where he had been born , or who his parents were . |
| 14 | During the past four years , and it really has only been with us for that long , desktop publishing has managed to get itself a fairly bad name among the professional graphics community . |
| 15 | Actually , she 's only been with us for eleven months . |
| 16 | ‘ Almost everyone in the court was in tears — even the legal teams who have been with us for two years , ’ said Mary . |
| 17 | Mr Chairman , the traffic problem has been with us for many years as our village existed before the motor car . |
| 18 | Well daddy was to have been with us for this was n't he , for this meal ? |
| 19 | ‘ Miss Sowerby , ’ Reid explained , ‘ has been with us for several years . |
| 20 | ‘ Mark , ’ she began , ‘ you 've been with us for some time . ’ |
| 21 | Most of these newer techniques of systems analysis and design have in fact been with us for some time , but were not brought together until the publication of the above texts . |
| 22 | We at Halpern and Woolf believe the recession has been with us for some months already ; the C B I takes the same view and they 're pressing for interest rate reductions now to restore business confidence . |
| 23 | There is somebody in that company , who 's probably been with it for nine months , who knows it backwards and who 's capable of playing the role . |
| 24 | As in all things , you have a team which has been with you for many years ? |
| 25 | Harry : ‘ I 'd have asked them , ‘ This opera , you 've been in it for long time — do you still like it then ? … |
| 26 | He 's been in it for five years ( only he and Jean Boht have been with the show from the beginning ) and he 's proud of that , he says . |
| 27 | Nobody 's been in it for ten years . |
| 28 | Well I 'm with you for four . |
| 29 | Mr McQueen , who would be with them for some weeks , was accompanied by one of the Macleods of Raasay to pilot them , Malcolm Macleod , aged sixty-two . |
| 30 | ‘ So if you do n't want anyone thinking you might be with me for personal reasons , why bother ? ’ |