Example sentences of "with [pers pn] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Italian , who was with me for two months , became really rather tiresome and disruptive , especially to the charming young German working hard for her exams . |
| 2 | They would be with me for four days in July . |
| 3 | Fine , can you bear with me for five seconds while I 'll just make a phone call ? |
| 4 | I tell you one thing I 'm slightly starting to regret inviting my girlfriend to come and stay with me for three weeks in France . |
| 5 | ‘ Because of that , the superstitious say I met the fairies and went to live with them for nine years . |
| 6 | Jon stayed with them for two years until he had enough money to own a bus of his own . |
| 7 | And told me of the fraternising between British and German troops on Christmas day in the trenches , and I could n't understand at first how you could shoot at someone all week , then make friends with them for one day , knowing you would try and kill each other again the next . |
| 8 | I speak with them for forty minutes and generally have my socks charmed from my feet , the spring put in my step and all semblance of a chill factor taken from this typical October evening . |
| 9 | They looked about ten , with long hair , both so brown and handsome I could have hugged them ; if I were a woman I would have made a date with them for ten years ' time . |
| 10 | He worked with them for ten years , initially on the Sydney harbour and Newcastle upon Tyne bridges , and then from 1931 on the design and construction of welded steel bridges , of which his Billingham bridge was the first all-welded bridge in Britain . |
| 11 | She stayed with them for three months and as well as looking after their daughter Alexandra she cleaned and cooked . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been miserable with you for five years , Dimitri . |
| 13 | about school er further education on , on the magazine and I felt that perhaps , bearing in mind what he 'd said earlier about I have n't had any contact with you for thirteen years , that might have been something that you could 've you know reinforced a bit well we 've now got financial advisers , the other thing or one of the other things we 're doing is , is this contact magazine which we 're sending out to policy holders and it , you know , it helps to bridge the gap as it were . |
| 14 | This is mainly the fault of the shop assistants , all of whom climb mountains and will stand discussing Munros with you for 45 minutes , which makes it impossible to leave without buying something . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | And now he was stuck with her for two months . |
| 17 | He waited with her for eight hours at the Northampton car park . |
| 18 | He waited with her for eight hours at the Northampton car park . |
| 19 | I lived with her for four years . |
| 20 | He 's lived with her for six years but can only describe her job vaguely , as ‘ something in administration ’ . |
| 21 | Corbett had been alone with her for five minutes when she died , but Mr Justice McKinnon told the jury ’ You simply could not be sure that in the short time Danielle was under his control he caused her death . |
| 22 | I 'd been with her for 12 hours at the delivery of her beautiful baby daughter . |
| 23 | He 's been with her for three days now . |
| 24 | They had lived with her for three months before they got this place , and it had been three months too long as far as he was concerned . |
| 25 | He said , ‘ I had been with her for three years , in love . |
| 26 | But he did n't tell me he 'd been going out with her for three weeks and he 's never . |
| 27 | Friend and photographer Howard Bingham has travelled with him for thirty years . |
| 28 | Walter is backed up by Graham Nicholson , who takes over in July after working with him for 18 months . |
| 29 | She lived with him for 11 years . |
| 30 | Dennis Hopper went to the meeting with Manson and sat face to face with him for two hours in a room on the eighth floor of the Hall of Justice . |