Example sentences of "[been] with [det] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 How else would he have been with such a father ?
2 This is not , as it might have been with such a tale , the cuckolded merchant , but rather Margery , the stupid wife , who is particularly funny because she is so unthinkingly conventionally good and who effaces any real self she may be imagined to have within a cluster of clichés .
3 She thought how rough they had been with each other , how savage almost , sometimes in an odd way wanting to be done so that they could begin all over again .
4 ‘ The liaison has been with all of the functional groups within the computer centre : analysis and programming , operations , user services , communications and technical support and data preparation .
5 As many parents have discovered , the problem with disposable nappies up to now has been with that word ‘ disposable ’ .
6 I suppose you 've been with that awful Mug-govertski ? ’
7 Apart from the two social occasions when he had been with another girl , Liza had seen little of him , even though she had taken every opportunity to pass by the farmhouse where he was billeted .
8 At one year old he was the ideal age for breeding and although he 'd never been with another bird before , his first mate produced eggs within two months .
9 ‘ How long have you been with this company ? ’
10 I 've only been in the industry , I 've only been with this company for two and half years , and when I joined and had a look at what the industry was about , there were thirty express overnight carriers .
11 Passion had swept in then , and he had entered her , unable to help himself , clinging to her as she had earlier clung to him , and although he had been gentler than he had ever been with any other woman , she had cried out , and her face had twisted with pain , and Fergus had felt blood on his thighs .
12 R R Ricky er Richie er longer than she 'd been with any you know , boy that she got on with
13 If I could have departed then , never reentered the house , it would have been with some strength of mind .
14 We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity .
15 It must have been with some degree of cautiousness and a heightened sense of responsibility that Gould once more stocked up on shot , caps , and powder on his way back through Launceston for the journey home .
16 Wallace came on shortly before time and showed what could have been with some fast ground-oriented attacking .
  Next page