Example sentences of "with [pron] for some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's always pissed off with me for some reason ! |
| 2 | I was too upset to eat or drink , but she sat with me for some time , talking gently to me , wiping away my tears , and helping me to recover . |
| 3 | He had been with them for some time ; two or three years before , he had told her that he did n't know where he had been born , or who his parents were . |
| 4 | what we 're dealing with is a small group of MP s who thought there were some advantages in the Paignton amendment I 've discussed it very thoroughly with them for some time , and they agree that there were real difficulties about the Paignton amendment which I 've now addressed |
| 5 | she kept in touch with them for some time but er , I 've not seen her for a year so , I would n't know . |
| 6 | Well I like my mum and dad here ( adoptive parents ) 'cause I 've been with them for some years , but there again , I like my own father as well ... we still think of him and would like to go and visit him . |
| 7 | Mr McQueen , who would be with them for some weeks , was accompanied by one of the Macleods of Raasay to pilot them , Malcolm Macleod , aged sixty-two . |
| 8 | No you say that I once got off with someone for some cigarettes , I never felt so awful . |
| 9 | If you have not been contact with someone for some time and do not have a directory which is updated frequently , a quick phone call tell you whether your contact is still there or has moved on . |
| 10 | Craig had been staying with her for some weeks now and she had grown used to seeing him there in her kitchen . |
| 11 | In October , Hopper married Michelle Phillips who had been living with him for some months . |
| 12 | I think the Algerians have been angry with him for some time and are prepared to let Polisario have a free hand . ’ |
| 13 | Or — and this more horrible idea had been very obscurely with him for some time — how had he dared to entertain it ? — perhaps Marcus — Marcus had spoken of evil yearnings , of a crime , perhaps committed already , perhaps in a dream — No , that was unthinkable , impossible . |
| 14 | Oh yeah , I mean I had a horrible time with him for some time and it just , just |
| 15 | But when we have got such a satisfactory outcome , unless subsequent events show that we have got it wrong , or that we have wrongly read the environment or some other major change , we would aim to stick with it for some years . |
| 16 | DESPITE the advent of cassettes and CDs the analogue record is likely to be with us for some time yet , and in every amplifier used for playing them is an equaliser to modify the signal derived from the pick-up cartridge . |
| 17 | Granny had been living with us for some time . |
| 18 | ‘ Mark , ’ she began , ‘ you 've been with us for some time . ’ |
| 19 | Underground work is going to be with us for some time . |
| 20 | Most of these newer techniques of systems analysis and design have in fact been with us for some time , but were not brought together until the publication of the above texts . |
| 21 | 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 . |