Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [prep] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And , ’ Claire continued , confirming her misgivings , ‘ his heart is tied up with a woman , one who has been with him for many years now . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Hermanns has been with me for over twenty years ; he is the best recording engineer I know . |
| 4 | As in all things , you have a team which has been with you for many years ? |
| 5 | ‘ Miss Sowerby , ’ Reid explained , ‘ has been with us for several years . |
| 6 | Of course the phenomenological approach has been with us for a long time , and has been the primary source of evidence in the psychoanalytic tradition . |
| 7 | Well we all know from our own history books that fire has been with us for a long long time has n't it ? |
| 8 | It has been with us for the past 10 years . |
| 9 | I think erm there is some dispute as to erm what size the new settlement must be to become what 's termed an integrated and balanced community , and given the importance of this issue , and it has been with us for the last three years , ever since the new settlement was first proposed , erm I find it very surprising that North Yorkshire County Council have not undertaken any work of their own on this subject area , and have relied instead on a a residual approach to find the new settlement size , and I must say I find that very unsatisfactory , what North Yorkshire County Council are inviting you , erm , to accept is whatever size the residual for Greater York is , you know , has been in the past I should say , proposals from the public , from the private sector have come forward , an and the County Council have used those proposals as confirmation that the new settlement of that particular size was viable , it 's a sort of self fulfilling prophecy , now I think that 's unacceptable , what they have n't done is the second part of the technical exercise , which is to look at the thresholds of the various services and facilities required in the new settlement . |
| 10 | Mr Chairman , the traffic problem has been with us for many years as our village existed before the motor car . |
| 11 | We at Halpern and Woolf believe the recession has been with us for some months already ; the C B I takes the same view and they 're pressing for interest rate reductions now to restore business confidence . |
| 12 | He 's been with her for three days now . |
| 13 | His form 's been with you for ages . |
| 14 | She 's been at him for years . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , I have ; but when he confronts Richard he will be told that he could be taken to court ; he 's been at me for years . |
| 16 | Michael had a nice fiddle going , and he 's been at it for over a year now . |
| 17 | And you need n't have any feeling of compunction about him , for he 's been at it for years on the side , and you know it . |
| 18 | Course he 's been on it for six weeks . |
| 19 | Oh , Charlie , you 've done it now , because she 's been after you for years . |
| 20 | He 's been in it for five years ( only he and Jean Boht have been with the show from the beginning ) and he 's proud of that , he says . |
| 21 | Nobody 's been in it for ten years . |
| 22 | That , no it 's not Colin he 's been in it for ages now . |