Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [prep] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er we cast during the dark days of the war , when toys were n't available , we a few older blokes er apprentices used to I remember being at it for a couple of hard week we had a hard week , well evening during the evenings anyway . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been over it for years . |
| 3 | I 've been on it for over three years and I 'm quite concerned about some of the things I 've heard tonight and I 'm going to make an appointment |
| 4 | They 've got people who 've been on it for years and years . |
| 5 | Erm , and I have no side effects to it , I 've been on it for quite a long while . |
| 6 | But I 've been at it for 15 years . |
| 7 | Anyway , the Wild Wood is seething with them , and in its endless darkness the beasties multiply ; they 've no enemies to control them , and they 've been at it for centuries ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You 've been with me for a whole week now and you might just as well have been a girl , or a boy without balls . |
| 10 | But it 's the nasty business of disposing of stock , and having to fire men who 've been with me for years . |
| 11 | ‘ Listen , I 've been with him for nearly three hours , Bern . ’ |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Mark , ’ she began , ‘ you 've been with us for some time . ’ |
| 15 | If they 've been with us for quite some time there are always ways we can enhance people 's skills are n't there ? |
| 16 | erm certainly numerically controlled machine tools , they 've been with us for a number of years now and there 's no doubt about it that micro-electronics is having an influence , or advances in micro-electronics are having a way in which they are implemented , but I feel applications of that type it requires quite a large amount of flexibility in being able to program it to set up one machine , program it differently to set up another machine , say , or to produce one component and another component and so on , so that I think there one is thinking and looking at a more sophisticated type of computer than , say , a simple microcomputer that we 've been talking about earlier . |
| 17 | Yes , it 's always sad to say farewell to colleagues that have been with you for a number of years , but all things have to come to an end , we say farewell with sadness and er fond memories to those who 've been with us for so long , but we welcome all those who are joining us and we can promise them a thriving future . |
| 18 | I 've been after them for a long time and I 'll get them for this . ’ |
| 19 | Harry : ‘ I 'd have asked them , ‘ This opera , you 've been in it for long time — do you still like it then ? … |
| 20 | After more than 20 years of Medau teaching in Edinburgh , Muriel Jessop is taking the step of handing over her class — much to the sadness of her class members , some of whom have been with her for a larger number of those years . |
| 21 | Though these problems are a characteristic feature of modern life , they have been with us for a very long time . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ Almost everyone in the court was in tears — even the legal teams who have been with us for two years , ’ said Mary . |
| 24 | Over 19,000 people have worked for Delta for more than 10 years and over 11,300 people have been with us for over 20 years . |
| 25 | Defamation , blasphemy and sedition have been with us for centuries , but in recent years new rods have been fashioned and old ones polished for editorial backs : breach of confidence , contempt of court , official secrecy , " D " notices , incitement to disaffection , prevention of terrorism , copyright — the grounds for censorship are legion . |
| 26 | Yes , it 's always sad to say farewell to colleagues that have been with you for a number of years , but all things have to come to an end , we say farewell with sadness and er fond memories to those who 've been with us for so long , but we welcome all those who are joining us and we can promise them a thriving future . |
| 27 | The baskets measure an ample 15 inches by 13 inches , and 10 inches to the top of the handle , and are hand-made in Somerset by P H Coate and Son who have been at it for a century and a half . |
| 28 | Perry and me have been without it for five days before this only on methadone . |