Example sentences of "had be with us " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I remember to this day , though I was so small , that mother was very angry with me , for unclothing myself before the servant , who was a very nice girl who had been with us for a long time . |
| 2 | One evening , when Sorrel had been with us for about five years , Sally and I got ready to take her for her usual walk . |
| 3 | ‘ It is not very much , ’ concedes Anna Perry , ‘ which makes me wonder why so many of these porters had been with us for so long . |
| 4 | Leslie had a very good lot of men in his section , some of them had been with us for a long time . |
| 5 | I wished our teenage children had been with us , they would have revelled in all the water sports , in the bay . |
| 6 | If the children had been with us they 'd have been in the disco , fortunately soundproofed , every night . |
| 7 | After she had been with us a fortnight we told her , as gently as we could , that she was never going back … |
| 8 | When Shanti had been with us for a few days , a friend said to me , ‘ I saw Michael out with the baby in the pram , and I do n't think I 've seen a man look happier in my life . ’ |
| 9 | In April two students from this school stood back to let an elderly disabled woman enter the Post Office before them and in June another student , who I am glad to say had been with us only two weeks , was spotted by two seniors through the window of the tap room of the Throstle 's Nest , helping a blind woman across the road . |
| 10 | I intended to sub-contract it to one of my former students , a very , very skilful young man who had been with us on a fee-paying course for one year and then gone off and worked in a local workshop for another 18 months . |