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Example sentences of "with [pers pn] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ Not with me as a person .
2	How strict Tata had always been with me as a child ; even taken the strap to me on a couple of occasions , once for pinching ‘ fress ’ , or buns as Mother called them , behind his back — he did n't mind how much I took from the shop as long as I asked — and once for saying ‘ Damn ’ when I cut my finger peeling an apple .
3	‘ You were n't particularly impressed either with racing or with me as a driver , were you ? ’
4	Nevil just walked with me about a foot off the floor until I hit the table with my stomach .
5	I took the comfortable two person tent with me on a number of solo trips as its packed size is small and the weight is good at 7lb 2oz , 3.25kg .
6	The question really was , did being alone with me on a boat seem like a good idea or not ? "
7	Would you like to come and sit out the back with me for a minute ? ’
8	‘ Will you stay with me for a minute ?
9	‘ Just come with me for a minute , please , ’ he said .
10	You have to quite carefully , be extra carefully with me for a minute cos I ca n't quite
11	Erm , and actually formalize the assignment , so people will see what you 've got to do , if the others will bear with me for a minute or two .
12	You promised to take the oath and divide your winnings with me for a secret ! ’
13	Other times , though , if it was a student who stuck with me for a couple of years , eventually they would get interested in reading in some form .
14	She stayed with me for a couple of days before going on to Spain to my sister .
15	I shall be glad to have you working with me for a while . ’
16	Be impure with me for a while .
17	" Will you come and stay with me for a while ? " she asked gently .
18	" Go to sleep with me for a while , " he said , and he took her gently into his arms .
19	‘ Do you think your mother would let you go out with me for a day in Newcastle ? ’
20	I was so glad that the ‘ family ’ came to stay with me for a change .
21	‘ How about forgetting our professional differences and coming with me for a look round the antiques ? ’
22	What I could do is play a record but er I ca n't remember so bear with me for a moment .
23	Bear with me for a moment more as I come towards it , while I read you yet more lines from another moment of the portrait , and keep in mind , if you will , from a moment ago , Stephen 's contemptuous review of the holders of wealth and power in Ireland .
24	They did a crafty one — one came out and a woman came in , very nice , telling him he had to face up to his responsibilities , she said she 'd help us , they 'd get him a job , they 'd pay his rent and he had to move in with me for a month 's trial .
25	‘ You 'd better come to the flat with me for a start , as soon as the warrant arrives .
26	‘ Down to the police station with me for a start , and then to visit that lady while we clear this whole mess up .
27	Even now , gin with ice cold tonic is the spirit I 'd probably choose to take with me to a desert island just so long as there were plenty of lemon groves to hand on my castaway paradise .
28	And she ended up spending , it was the best part of the day with me and she came with me to a couple of meetings I went to .
29	Then she walked with me to a bus stop — I had to take one step every two minutes , and that in slow motion — waited with me , put me on the right bus and reminded the conductor where to let me out .
30	By the time my father could sit down with me in a pub , slightly drunk , tell me and my friends about Real Life , crack a joke about a Pakistani that silenced a whole table once , and talk about the farm labourer 's — his grandfather 's — journey up from Eye in Suffolk working on the building of the Great North Western Railway to Rawtenstall on the Lancashire-Yorkshire border , I was doing history at Sussex , and knew more than he did about the date and timing of journeys like that .