Example sentences of "they have been separate [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When they 'd been separated for ten years , ’ said Mr Brownlow , ‘ your father met another family . |
| 2 | They 'd been separated in the fracas which followed their parachute descent into northern France , and she feared that Jeanne had been killed in the fighting . |
| 3 | He , too , married a girl of his own milieu ; they 've been separated for many years . |
| 4 | They posed for photographers at the star-studded show , giving the lie to rumours they had been separated for several weeks . |
| 5 | She was well aware that it would seem thoroughly feeble — if not downright pathetic — to refuse to accompany him to New York simply because they had been separated for almost five years . |
| 6 | Instead they had been separated from their ‘ bosses ’ and relegated to word-processing pools to type for ‘ dictators ’ . |
| 7 | A The law allows any couple to seek a divorce on the grounds of the irretrievable breakdown of marriage once they have been separated for two years . |
| 8 | They have been separated in a pair of somatic cell hybrids ( TG3 and TK2 ; 22 ) , each of which carries one of the reciprocal translocation chromosomes . |