Example sentences of "be [prep] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then your feelings for me are as mine for you ? ’ he asked softly . |
| 2 | I 've been after them for a long time and I 'll get them for this . ’ |
| 3 | I remember at the time Wilko saying how he though Kerslake was an excellent buy , and how he 'd been after him for a long time . |
| 4 | Oh , Charlie , you 've done it now , because she 's been after you for years . |
| 5 | We 're for it for patriotic reasons . |
| 6 | They 're in it for the love of the game . |
| 7 | He has n't been near me for three years . ’ |
| 8 | One mate had been into it for a while 'cos he used to go away to sea . |
| 9 | He said , ‘ I had been with her for three years , in love . |
| 10 | Rose Mundy told me of her continual battle with overweight thighs , a problem that had been with her for as long as she could remember . |
| 11 | I 'd been with her for 12 hours at the delivery of her beautiful baby daughter . |
| 12 | He 's been with her for three days now . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Hermanns has been with me for over twenty years ; he is the best recording engineer I know . |
| 17 | But it 's the nasty business of disposing of stock , and having to fire men who 've been with me for years . |
| 18 | Been with me for many years . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | He had a house in Gloucestershire and another at Kensington Palace , and staff who had been with him for years , accustomed to his simple and masculine lifestyle and accustomed to ruling it . |
| 21 | To them he gave detailed care now as always : most had been with him for many years . |
| 22 | She was almost the same age as Julius , and had been with him for over ten years . |
| 23 | ‘ And , ’ Claire continued , confirming her misgivings , ‘ his heart is tied up with a woman , one who has been with him for many years now . ’ |
| 24 | He let his house in Chelsea furnished for the year , with the usual proviso that his own staff should remain to run it — he has a housekeeper who has been with him for years , and one daily maid . |
| 25 | ‘ Listen , I 've been with him for nearly three hours , Bern . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Vaguely she wondered why the daily woman who had been with them for years had not put in an appearance before now , and listened in vain for the cheerful clatter of tea-cups in the passage outside . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He 'd been with them for twenty seven years . |
| 30 | And I remember to this day , though I was so small , that mother was very angry with me , for unclothing myself before the servant , who was a very nice girl who had been with us for a long time . |