Example sentences of "with [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And before Leith could say a word to lessen his agitation , ‘ Heaven alone knows what chance I 've got with Rosemary now , but she 'd finish with me for sure , I know she would , if anyone else knew about us ! ’ |
| 2 | I felt he was vying with me for proprietary rights over Jean-Claude . |
| 3 | There was no way I could have refused even if I had wanted to , so a few days later I found myself shaking in the BBC 's hospitality suite , very glad to have Mary and Chris with me for moral support . |
| 4 | ‘ So if you do n't want anyone thinking you might be with me for personal reasons , why bother ? ’ |
| 5 | Now at that time the Scottish National Party was the only other party in Scotland advocating what we were advocating ( though obviously going much further ) and it seemed to me crazy to be competing with them for devolutionary votes . |
| 6 | And he said , I do apologize , he said , for the mucking about , he said we want to work with our sub-contractors very , very , closely and have a good er relationship with them for ongoing work and stuff like that . |
| 7 | Well , she 's stayed with him for like weekends , or weeks . |
| 8 | He was angry with it for existing , and terrified by the reminder that one day he might catch it himself . |
| 9 | Provided that the other House now passes the Bill in the same form , it will have finished with it for good . |
| 10 | The fire service will use Alpha House and the 2.4 acres of ground that come with it for practical and theoretical training courses . |
| 11 | This may result in its greater toleration in the spouse ; but if the tolerance does not exist , the increasing ease of separation and divorce mean that the need to live with it for social or economic reasons is reduced . |
| 12 | Although our hatch was raised above the worktop , you may prefer one that 's level with it for full , easy reach of the area behind , then you 'll have no need for a shelf to stand things on . |
| 13 | Christian Barman , who had written of Britain 's country stations ‘ No country in the world has a collection of minor stations that can begin to compare with ours for sheer quality ’ , prepared for the Great Western Railway just after the war a detailed prospectus for the modernization and transformation of the company 's image , operations , and buildings after the lifting of wartime restrictions . |