Example sentences of "[adv] be with [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She 's only been with me a week , and I think that a handicapped child 's need is greater than mine . ’ |
| 2 | She 's only been with me six weeks . |
| 3 | The ‘ Minister of the Crown ’ role was hung on little Colin Moynihan for a day or two while everyone tried not to laugh ; he was , after all , only just over five foot tall and Minister for Sport and he had , after all , not slept with Pamella , only been with her at the Winter Ball . |
| 4 | She 's only been with them three months , remember , and Daniel has n't been to see her since . |
| 5 | ‘ After all , I 've only been with them a few years . ’ |
| 6 | Actually , she 's only been with us for eleven months . |
| 7 | During the past four years , and it really has only been with us for that long , desktop publishing has managed to get itself a fairly bad name among the professional graphics community . |
| 8 | Like the poor themselves , the inner city has long been with us . |
| 9 | And the Substitute had better be with me — tell Bacci he can take my car down to Florence , I do n't really need him and the Substitute can take me back with him … |
| 10 | While his parents could only be with him during the occasional break in a hectic schedule , at least Diana knew that he was under the same skies . |
| 11 | Ma tries her hardest to divide herself fairly between my own and Pa 's needs , but sometimes she must find it difficult , and it hurts her that , as yet , she can only be with us for these brief visits , and always seems tired . |
| 12 | I mean my dear , I said to Paul , Paul yesterday was was babbling on about if Karen would take him back and I said Paul I shall be extremely displeased if you ever leave this house to go back to Karen , you know o after only being with me for something like three or four weeks , I said you 'll never come back again I said I 'm not going to be messed about like that ! |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | My dear mother , you at least will soon be with me and your sorrow not as those who have no hope . |
| 15 | However , it was now found and the licence would soon be with her . |
| 16 | The main season for preparing annual reports and accounts will soon be with us — the year end of 83 of the FTSE Top 100 companies falls between 31 December and 31 March — so now seems a good time for finance directors to assess whether their annual tome is user friendly . |
| 17 | It 's certainly exciting for us to think that you will soon be with us more permanently . |
| 18 | ‘ Is this because of Doreen — because she 'll soon be with you ? ’ |
| 19 | Enzo Ferrari may no longer be with us but the name and legend will live on . |
| 20 | cos their meeting could just be with you |
| 21 | The comfortable assumption that pupils would normally being with them to school the language which would be the medium of their education was , rather suddenly , no longer tenable . |
| 22 | Leonora felt better once she was in the taxi , particularly since Penry not only held her hand , but kept his arm round her for the entire journey , taking her mind very successfully off the evening ahead by the sheer joy of just being with him after a week apart . |
| 23 | just because we 're special type of thing , it 'll be OK cos he will be able to enjoy just being with us or not , as the case may be |
| 24 | ‘ Lady , the so-called strain of being a big star is nothing compared to the strain of just being with you , ’ he shot back . |
| 25 | With you I just wanted to savour the initial stages , step by step , to enjoy just being with you , whatever we were doing Besides , ’ he added very softly , his fingers stroking the back of her hand , ‘ you 're not frigid , my lovely . |
| 26 | I only wish the man who did it had still been with her . ’ |
| 27 | How strict Tata had always been with me as a child ; even taken the strap to me on a couple of occasions , once for pinching ‘ fress ’ , or buns as Mother called them , behind his back — he did n't mind how much I took from the shop as long as I asked — and once for saying ‘ Damn ’ when I cut my finger peeling an apple . |
| 28 | Promiscuity has always been with us . |
| 29 | Again by tradition , it 's the oldest profession , it 's always been with us , possibly always will . |
| 30 | Crime has always been with us and Halling was no exception and it has been estimated that Kent 's crime rate in the 13th century was higher than any other county , and a statement by Prof. James Given , of Michigan , says that the percentage of murders at 23 per 100,000 in Kent was higher than the U.S.A. average of today . |