Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [pron] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Been with me for many years . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | To them he gave detailed care now as always : most had been with him for many years . |
| 4 | ‘ And , ’ Claire continued , confirming her misgivings , ‘ his heart is tied up with a woman , one who has been with him for many years now . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mr Chairman , the traffic problem has been with us for many years as our village existed before the motor car . |
| 9 | Well daddy was to have been with us for this was n't he , for this meal ? |
| 10 | ‘ Miss Sowerby , ’ Reid explained , ‘ has been with us for several years . |
| 11 | ‘ Mark , ’ she began , ‘ you 've been with us for some time . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As in all things , you have a team which has been with you for many years ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Ma tries her hardest to divide herself fairly between my own and Pa 's needs , but sometimes she must find it difficult , and it hurts her that , as yet , she can only be with us for these brief visits , and always seems tired . |
| 17 | DESPITE the advent of cassettes and CDs the analogue record is likely to be with us for some time yet , and in every amplifier used for playing them is an equaliser to modify the signal derived from the pick-up cartridge . |
| 18 | Underground work is going to be with us for some time . |
| 19 | After I come back to take over the club again , you wo n't be in it for more than a week or two at a time . ’ |
| 20 | It 's not , it 's just like a little bead , it 's meant to be on it for that and |
| 21 | My dad would say , Stay well away from them , he was always afraid they were after him for all the taxes he had n't paid . |
| 22 | When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig . |
| 23 | ‘ Being around you for any length of time , I 'd sooner know what it is that makes you tick . |
| 24 | I have to wait a while before I get a second chub , but it is worth it for this one weighs 4lb 10oz and fights like a demon . |
| 25 | That 's about it for this month . |
| 26 | It 's the ‘ What 's in it for all of us ? ’ factor . |
| 27 | Well , Her Ladyship was rather special because she was with me for many years and supported me by producing calves for market . |
| 28 | He was a remarkable parliamentarian and , as a Minister , he was with me for many years . |
| 29 | It was not my instinct to go , but the group — including my wife who was with me for those two days — set the example and I grudgingly , guardedly accompanied them . |