Example sentences of "'ve be with [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 ‘ So you 've been with them ? ’
3 If you 're with a bank and you 've been with them a few years , they 'll give you all kinda loans .
4 And er I 've been with them ever since , just come up to two year period .
5 Erm you 've been with them since August .
6 And he said I 've been with them twenty nine years .
7 It 's the first day I 've been with them and I thought I do n't know .
8 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 .
9 But it 's the nasty business of disposing of stock , and having to fire men who 've been with me for years .
10 He says he 's had a win somewhere , but when I 've been with him he mostly loses .
11 ‘ Listen , I 've been with him for nearly three hours , Bern . ’
12 So she said simply , ‘ I 've been with him all of my life .
13 I 've been with him since you left .
14 I 've been with him fifty four years , look if you want .
15 So anyway , she said oh yeah , so I know what Sandra can be like and I 've been with her
16 And I said yes , I said you know what Sue can be like , you 've been with her for twelve months and you 're daft enough
17 ‘ Yes , sometimes you create this illusion for yourself , because you 've been with it a certain number of hours , but it can also go the other way : you might think something 's horrible and then come in the next day and realise it 's actually pretty good .
18 You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ?
19 ‘ Look , Dr. Briant , I 've been with you on this from the word go , you know I have .
20 She said , ‘ Oh , there 's happy I 've been with you two , there 's been life in this house , first time I 've known it ! ’
21 ‘ You 've been with us , now ,
22 ‘ Mark , ’ she began , ‘ you 've been with us for some time . ’
23 You 've been with us nearly a year now , and it 's thanks to your work that we 're well on the way to managing the volatility problem at high temperatures . ’
24 If they 've been with us for quite some time there are always ways we can enhance people 's skills are n't there ?
25 erm certainly numerically controlled machine tools , they 've been with us for a number of years now and there 's no doubt about it that micro-electronics is having an influence , or advances in micro-electronics are having a way in which they are implemented , but I feel applications of that type it requires quite a large amount of flexibility in being able to program it to set up one machine , program it differently to set up another machine , say , or to produce one component and another component and so on , so that I think there one is thinking and looking at a more sophisticated type of computer than , say , a simple microcomputer that we 've been talking about earlier .
26 We are , as you probably gathered if you 've been with us , talking about the , the Gulf conflict .
27 Yes , it 's always sad to say farewell to colleagues that have been with you for a number of years , but all things have to come to an end , we say farewell with sadness and er fond memories to those who 've been with us for so long , but we welcome all those who are joining us and we can promise them a thriving future .
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