Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It should 've been with the batch of papers given . |
| 2 | There must 've been with erm in forty seven was it the encirclement campaign where they allowed the nationalists to sort of drive through the , I do n't know the defences , they must 've been fairly certain of their support in certain areas by then . |
| 3 | Think I should 've been with you . |
| 4 | In organizing the session , the initiative will almost certainly have been with the commissioning radio producer who will have approached the record company or manager . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And you must believe me when I tell you I 'd rather have been with you than in any of those exotic places . ’ |
| 7 | He should have been with the girl from the petrol station half an hour ago , but he was too eaten up with jealousy that his dear amigo , Luke , had taken that white-haired she-devil out for a drink . |
| 8 | And this is where Derek comes in ( think how useful his fax would have been with the more timid cross dresser ) . |
| 9 | You must have been with someone else . ’ |
| 10 | If only he could have been with Dinah at this hour , playing while she sang ! |
| 11 | Will Douglas should have been with them , for he was Sheriff of Teviotdale . |
| 12 | Previously , my close relationships would have been with people where we would perhaps be living together or just lovers , but they would have been quite explicit that they would have been non-monogamous . |
| 13 | I must have been with the vet for an hour but the driver was still waiting to take me home . |
| 14 | The Liverpool manager should have been with his goal-starved squad when they flew to Cyprus for an important cup match tonight . |
| 15 | I only wish I could have been with Mr Grant when he researched the feature . |
| 16 | If I could have departed then , never reentered the house , it would have been with some strength of mind . |
| 17 | How else would he have been with such a father ? |
| 18 | Katharin McMILLAN wife of DUNCAN McKENZIE should have been with them but by that time was dead . |
| 19 | Would the secretary know if Mr Johnston had a wife who might have been with him ? |
| 20 | ‘ Your mother would have been with us , ’ said one of the waylayers with a touch of reproach , presumably sensing Helen 's lack of commitment . |
| 21 | He must have been with them all the time from Corry , to Raasay , to Kingsburgh , to Dunvegan : ‘ a fellow quite like a savage ’ — and they were followed , ‘ as colts follow passengers upon a road ’ , by local lads , barefoot , ragged , lazy and not wholly unmenacing . |
| 22 | A marriage between foreign nationals from different countries and of different religions would have been difficult enough in settled times , but it was rendered much more complicated now by the fact that whatever my family 's record might have been with regard to the Fascist party , my mother , my father and I were enemy aliens who had just lost a war . |
| 23 | Mrs. Bidwell , the cleaner , should have been with them twenty minutes ago . |
| 24 | Also aware that I was happier with the evasion that I would have been with a wrong answer … |
| 25 | Since the marks on Mary 's body were not necessarily inconsistent with Thornton 's claim that she had consented to sexual intercourse , and since the times on the morning in question when Thornton was seen walking home to Bromwich suggested he could not have been with her when she met her death , the jury found him not guilty . |
| 26 | It may well have been with mixed feelings that Hamilton gave up Painshill and its burdens after some thirty-five years . |
| 27 | He should have been with you last Friday . " |
| 28 | " You do n't want me , " Edward repeated , " if you did , you 'd have been with me all this time . |
| 29 | Despite the volume of sheer hard physical slog there must have been with no vacuum cleaners , washing machines , electric mixers or all the other electronic gadgetry which have eased the burden of housework considerably Eva has no recollection of her mother getting uptight or tense . |
| 30 | For example Alec Hume 's memoirs were described them as this little book about fishing , a beautiful evocation of a countryman in Downing Street who would always rather have been with his fly on the river Tweed on the Scottish Borders . |