Example sentences of "[been] with " in BNC.
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| 31 | The report has been with the department 's accountants for more than three weeks as they check its factual accuracy . |
| 32 | ‘ The prospects at the moment look pretty good , ’ said Simmons , a bright and optimistic 28-year-old who has been with the AA seven years . |
| 33 | CFCs — the main problem — have been with us since the 1930s , a valued invention because they are non-toxic , non-flammable and cheaper to make than any known substitute . |
| 34 | ‘ She 's been with me in Cambridge all day — I told her she could have Sunday off . ’ |
| 35 | A thick weekend , McLeish decided , trying to think how best to establish what Yeo 's relationship had been with the dead girl . |
| 36 | The most complex and prolonged human/dolphin associations have been with bottlenose dolphins , but Doak thinks that they are by no means limited to this species . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | But his fascination with motion , the ‘ gate of natural philosophy ’ , had probably been with him from the beginning of that decade . |
| 39 | ‘ He 'd tell me I was the nicest woman he 'd ever been with . |
| 40 | The photographer is Howard Bingham , Ali 's closest friend ; he 's been with the Champ from the start , in the face of much abuse from the Black Muslims . |
| 41 | My baptism of fire had been with Leon Brittan who was Chief Secretary until the 1983 general election . |
| 42 | He was more frightened than he had been in all the time he had been with them , and he could tell that the girl was frightened too , by her quick , shallow breathing . |
| 43 | If Dana had been with me , they would never have dared . |
| 44 | ‘ Do you mean to say that Mrs Ross 's daughter never left you and her children ? — that she has been with you all the time and is still your wife ? ’ |
| 45 | The one person who should have been with her was absent , having ( as Aunt Nessy had told me some years before in bewilderment , and with a valiantly suppressed trembling of the lip ) written to say that she never wanted to see her again . |
| 46 | God has been with his people throughout . |
| 47 | ‘ I 've been with Tumbleweed . ’ |
| 48 | Sam 's been with me ever since , ’ Peter said . |
| 49 | One evening , when Sorrel had been with us for about five years , Sally and I got ready to take her for her usual walk . |
| 50 | She 'd been with us for a year when we went for a day 's walk in the country . |
| 51 | John Innes and peat have been with us ever since . |
| 52 | I asked him how long he had been with the Republicans and he said , ‘ Three weeks — I 'm a sales manager and I 've been given leave of absence by my company just to produce last night 's rally . ’ |
| 53 | My first leader was Schwalbé , who had been with the Suisse Romande under Ansermet , and now they have Spierer , who is a good musician and totally reliable . |
| 54 | As in all things , you have a team which has been with you for many years ? |
| 55 | Hermanns has been with me for over twenty years ; he is the best recording engineer I know . |
| 56 | ‘ If John had n't been with him to help … ’ |
| 57 | Three days before the battle , James had been with his army . |
| 58 | Instead , he was troubled at the start by a cold which has been with him since last week . |
| 59 | ‘ 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 . |
| 60 | He has not been helped by this shyness ( he had been with Essex for three years when Keith Fletcher asked if anyone had heard the young Gooch speak ) and it has led to misrepresentation . |