Example sentences of "with [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would you like to come and sit out the back with me for a minute ? ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Those summer nights will stay with me for ever , with the moon illuminating the darkness and the birds calling to each other in the trees at sunset . |
| 4 | With her penetrating instinct she did not like him , and was so angry with me for , as she said , ‘ wasting myself upon such rubbish ’ , that in the end she turned me out of my room and I went to live in a tiny , freezing attic in a house in Morningside Crescent owned by a friend of hers , a white woman . |
| 5 | The kitchen window was still open and I climbed in after crushing another handful of lavender with the intention of taking it to bed with me for an invigorating sleep , if such a thing is possible . |
| 6 | Hermanns has been with me for over twenty years ; he is the best recording engineer I know . |
| 7 | If my Mam got mad with me for something I 'd done — or more often something I had n't done — she used to make moaning noises and stagger about the house as if she was dying . |
| 8 | It was not my instinct to go , but the group — including my wife who was with me for those two days — set the example and I grudgingly , guardedly accompanied them . |
| 9 | She came with me for no reason at all , whereas it would have taken quite a few other PCs to shift her . |
| 10 | Well , Her Ladyship was rather special because she was with me for many years and supported me by producing calves for market . |
| 11 | Those summer nights at Hury will stay with me for ever . |
| 12 | Dare I repeat a story I 've told before about a friend , an unscrupulous bloke , canvassing with me for a local election in Wandsworth ? |
| 13 | ‘ Pa would 've been livid with me for getting pregnant , and he would n't want his precious fiddle going to pay for anything to do with it . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I would you could remain with me for ever ! ’ |
| 16 | In his letter to the Colossians Paul describes Aristarchus , Mark and Justus , his companions in evangelism and church planting , as those who ‘ work with me for the Kingdom of God ’ ( Col. 4:11 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ He had three years with John Edwards , but we bought him back for 5,600gns a year last June and he will be with me for the rest of his days . ’ |
| 18 | Combined with my relief that a resting-place had finally been found was satisfaction that I 'd had him with me for those first few hours and that he had not been whisked from his bed by complete strangers and reappeared , repackaged , at the crematorium a week later . |
| 19 | They would be with me for four days in July . |
| 20 | ‘ And you see , if you tell him I had n't felt well , he 'd be so cross with me for not waking him up . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Do you think your mother would let you go out with me for a day in Newcastle ? ’ |
| 22 | In a review of the first edition of this book , Sara Mills took issue with me for pessimistically implying that linguistic reform is impossible ; she pointed out , and I think with some justice , that my analysis risks leaving women with no way to hit back when they are confronted with sexist language , at least until after the revolution . |
| 23 | But the band stuck by me , worked out a routine with me , and busked through it with me for the rest of the run . |
| 24 | She 'll stay with me for a long time . ’ |
| 25 | Thus it was that , as I was wheeled perspiring into the editor 's office , that the first words ever spoken to me by an NME bigwig will remain with me for the rest of my life . |
| 26 | But it 's the nasty business of disposing of stock , and having to fire men who 've been with me for years . |
| 27 | I shall be glad to have you working with me for a while . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ You 'd better come to the flat with me for a start , as soon as the warrant arrives . |
| 29 | Been with me for many years . |
| 30 | With me for many years . ’ |