Example sentences of "had be with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , Jessie had been with Marion for years , following her from production to production , doing sewing and little chores in between times when Marion was ‘ resting ’ . |
| 2 | Prized most of all was the collection of classical poetry — from John Donne to Robert Browning — which enhanced the Hebraic and Yiddish verse that had been with him from the first . |
| 3 | If this card had been with either North or South the slam would have been a 75-per-cent chance . |
| 4 | Newspaper journalists came up with the information that the pachinko barons had been just as liberal with their cash as the Recruit corporation had been with political donations and cheap shares not long before . |
| 5 | Ah , said Mr Healey , Enoch had been with him at that seminar in Florence he 'd mentioned . |
| 6 | All his dealings had been with himself and that larger self of family which had been thrown together by marriage or accident : he had never been able to go out from his shell of self . |
| 7 | First her sister had forgotten to inform Nora , then this policeman said Nora had been with her and Jerome in the Jaguar . |
| 8 | In Tolkien , by huge contrast , he met a man whose style had been with him from the beginning . |
| 9 | He had a house in Gloucestershire and another at Kensington Palace , and staff who had been with him for years , accustomed to his simple and masculine lifestyle and accustomed to ruling it . |
| 10 | Some of them were loyal and trusted men who had been with the Prince for years and , as well as relying heavily upon them , he liked them . |
| 11 | The magic was every bit as exciting the second time around as it had been with William . |
| 12 | A thick weekend , McLeish decided , trying to think how best to establish what Yeo 's relationship had been with the dead girl . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | My baptism of fire had been with Leon Brittan who was Chief Secretary until the 1983 general election . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If Dana had been with me , they would never have dared . |
| 17 | One evening , when Sorrel had been with us for about five years , Sally and I got ready to take her for her usual walk . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Three days before the battle , James had been with his army . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Leslie had a very good lot of men in his section , some of them had been with us for a long time . |
| 25 | As Philip Warner has said in The Special Air Service , the official history re-issued in an expanded edition in 1983 , the regiment ‘ has often been criticised for the high proportion of officers and N.C.O.s , as well as first-class men , which it absorbed , and the answer must invariably be that used in this way they caused far more damage to the enemy than they would have done if they had been with other units . |
| 26 | I wished our teenage children had been with us , they would have revelled in all the water sports , in the bay . |
| 27 | If the children had been with us they 'd have been in the disco , fortunately soundproofed , every night . |
| 28 | Two of these Mrs Rose could trace but the third had been with Crabb when they said goodbye and was not amongst his personal possessions returned to Crabb 's mother by ‘ Smith ’ . |
| 29 | It had been with him a long time , long before McLuhanism had arrived to make a lot of people cry into their beer at El Vino 's and go haring after every tin-pot producer in the business . |
| 30 | He said , ‘ I had been with her for three years , in love . |