Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] been with " in BNC.
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| 1 | If her brothers even suspected that she had been with a boy , all hell would break loose . |
| 2 | None of them knew that she had been with the FBI for two years , where she had specialized in the use of firearms , before joining UNACO three years ago . |
| 3 | I was a virgin when we married , but I know that she had been with other men before me . |
| 4 | R R Ricky er Richie er longer than she 'd been with any you know , boy that she got on with |
| 5 | Certainly Churchill and Eden found that their dealings with Eisenhower and Dulles were no easier than they had been with the Democrats : in fact they often thought them worse . |
| 6 | It was all so much easier , somehow , than it had been with Christopher . |
| 7 | He came to me He had a problem , he and I were good friends and he said that erm that this one girl s erm Michelle , was his favourite wife and that he had been with her since erm she was twelve . |
| 8 | The man said that he had been with a woman . |
| 9 | I thought she was a vexing girl , and judged that Byron thought the same ; but he was a lot more patient with her than he had been with Polidori . |
| 10 | all of them so when her class came up , cos she 'd been with the class right from nursery and when she put into this you know , with the double third year , cos they go upstairs for third and fourth year and they really do classes below she did n't know anything in the class ! |
| 11 | If you 'd been with me , I might have stiffened myself and gone on with it . |
| 12 | As Philip Warner has said in The Special Air Service , the official history re-issued in an expanded edition in 1983 , the regiment ‘ has often been criticised for the high proportion of officers and N.C.O.s , as well as first-class men , which it absorbed , and the answer must invariably be that used in this way they caused far more damage to the enemy than they would have done if they had been with other units . |
| 13 | I am sure that if he had been with one of the stronger or more glamorous clubs at the time , his name would now be held in respect by a far wider clientele than those relatively few of us who were privileged to see him play his heart out for Crystal Palace . |
| 14 | Indeed , because I had been with giants for so long , I had forgotten that my countrymen were as small as me . |
| 15 | ‘ I knew my mum because she 'd been with me at the hospital and I remembered my grandad because of his bald head . |
| 16 | Rory knew because he 'd been with mum once when they 'd met Lachy and a woman in the street in Lochgilphead . |
| 17 | In a postscript Dr. Yeats reported that he had subsequently seen both Dr. Thackeray and Mr. Leech who had been together since he had been with them on the previous day . |
| 18 | After she had been with us a fortnight we told her , as gently as we could , that she was never going back … |
| 19 | Unlike Pete he smelled nice — Sally thought it was Old Spice — and when he pressed his hips against hers she was excited by the sensations it aroused , not revolted as she had been with the Teddy Boy at the youth club dance . |
| 20 | I had a son , and my mother was delighted , as she had been with her own son . |
| 21 | So she would tell herself when she was sick and retching and dizzy , in a week or two , as she 'd been with Liam . |
| 22 | The magic was every bit as exciting the second time around as it had been with William . |
| 23 | When , a year later , with paintings such as Man with Violin , Braque 's Cubism reached a second climax of complexity and became also highly difficult to read or interpret , one senses that it was not owing to the excitement of working with a new , more abstract technique as it had been with Picasso , but because his interest in elaborately breaking up the picture surface so as to analyse the relationships between the objects and the space surrounding them , slowly and inevitably led him to this kind of painting . |
| 24 | Archbishop Aethelberht is said not to have spared evil kings , and there must be a possibility that he was soon as disenchanted with Aethelred 's faction as he had been with Alhred 's . |
| 25 | Ken was n't as happy with this one as he had been with its predecessor . |
| 26 | She hoped so , hoped he was being as scathing with him as he 'd been with herself . |
| 27 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
| 28 | Edward Carrington much preferred his new companion , taken though he had been with Suzanne 's tired , tired eyes . |