Example sentences of "[vb past] to be with [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 He looked for art in reality , and that was how he came to be with her .
2 So we arranged the trip accordingly and came to be with you .
3 I can see how they came to be with you .
4 We had coffee , talked of the gardens and of plants difficult to grow in chalky soil — but nothing personal was said on either side , nor any thought of how she happened to be with me .
5 When he happened to be with me .
6 Even Frank Dick , the coach close enough to him to be the one he ultimately asked to be with him for his operation , did not have an inkling until the competition in France that Thompson had not high-jumped in training all year .
7 again there is no answer to that question , simply because the answer is so horrific , it does n't bear thinking about , but thank God all maybe safe , all will not be safe , but all maybe safe , God has provided a salvation that is available to all and if we are not safe it is because we choose to reject his s , his offers of mercy , so we thank God that all may be safe , but the solemn fact remains is that all will not be saved , well that leads us on to , to this third proposition , not only that the bible teach that all maybe saved , not only does it teach that all will not be saved , but it is quite clear that some will be saved whom we did not expect to be saved , we can be quite sure about that because judgment does n't rest with us , way back Abraham says perhaps one of the most important statements in his life when he said there in , in , in Genesis chapter eighteen and we actually sang the wo tho the quotation in the song we just sang a few moments ago where he says will not the judge of all the earth be right , judgement is not yours and mine , that 's God 's prerogative and the other song that we 've been , the song that we 've been singing , that song by faber there 's a wideness in God 's mercy lets be honest we are so narrow with our mercy , our gra , our expressions of grace is so limited , but there 's a wideness in God 's mercy and faber says it 's got the wideness of the sea , there 's a kindness in his justice , which is more than liberty , David knew all about that when he was given the option , he said oh I 'd rather fall into the hands of God than into the hands of men , I 'd rather that God dealt with me than that my fellow man dealt with me , because with him there 's mercy , with him there 's grace , with him there is , there is long suffering and there 's compa compassion and there 's love , and faber goes on with the love of God is broader than the measure of man 's mind and the heart of the eternal is most wonderfully kind , now that 's all very well for the song writer to say that in a hymn and it sounds nice and it 's , it sounds good but is there a scriptural authority for this , is it really true , or is it just a nice song that we sing with , it does us good because we feel it 's a nice , there nice thoughts , well , surely we have it in the passage we 've been reading that there is there is a mercy with God , there is a kindness with God in ver in verse thirty of that chapter behold some who are last will be first and some who are first will be last it 's quite clear that some will be saved that we did not expect to be saved , and you can find example after example of this , it was a tremendous surprise to the onlookers when a very sinful woman annoyed to the feed of Jesus , it was a tremendous surprise to the Pharisee who rejected God , although he was such a good man , to find that the , er sorry to be rejected by God although he was a good honest upright man , and to find that the sinner was accepted by God , it was a tremendous surprise to the people when Zacchaeus who named you to be a sinner , an open twist there an evil man was saved by the Lord Jesus , you could save salvation has come to this house , it was a tremendous surprise when the law breaker who was dying on the cross beside the law Jesus was saved and went to be with him , with the Lord in paradise , it was a tremendous surprise to the disciples when Jesus preached the gospel and revealed himself to a gentile woman , who was an adulterer seven times over but he did and she was saved , it was a tremendous surprise to Ananias when the Lord revealed himself
8 Nothing was as it appeared to be with him .
9 Anja left to be with him .
10 The men were going to stay the night in Llangollen , thirty miles from their destination , and hoped to be with us around ten the next morning .
11 Offers continued to roll in , some so tempting that I did not see how she could refuse them , but with four children now of whom none was over twelve , she was adamant that she wished to be with them , and this meant that we could move further afield .
12 And you had to be with them .
13 ‘ The answer to Mr Trimmler 's death had to be with you . ’
14 They only had to be with you .
15 ‘ He is my Uncle ; we 've shared the same house for twenty years and I wanted to be with him .
16 ‘ I wanted to be with him while he was touring .
17 He genuinely wanted to be with them .
18 That was how he liked life — chatting with people at work , going home to see mother ( and , of necessity , father , but he tried to avoid that when possible now ) and confining social contact to those he really wanted to be with , when he wanted to be with them .
19 ‘ You said … you said you wanted to be with me … to live with me …
20 He wanted to be with her so much that he could hardly breathe .
21 Not long married , he would race home from the office and inform Lady Fletcher that as the world was about to end , he wanted to be with her .
22 She clung to him , and his mouth found hers , and she tasted as fresh and as new as the morning , and desire had exploded within him , and he thought that after all he had been wrong : once would never be sufficient , he wanted her for always , he wanted to be with her , to share everything with her .
23 But even as she began to shake her head , she heard her own voice accepting the invitation , felt a ridiculous little spurt of pleasure that he even wanted to be with her .
24 She did n't want to be with him , any more than he wanted to be with her .
25 ‘ Miranda wanted to be with you today , but Dr Craig-Dunlop wants you to settle in quickly , with no excitement .
26 I just wanted to be with you . ’
27 He was a bore with his stupid family questions — especially when I wanted to be with you .
28 ‘ I wanted to be with you but , for love of you , had to go .
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