Example sentences of "be [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as though they had returned to the relationship there had been between them on Ridgery Butts when he had taught her to use the bow , and encouraged her with gentle praise . |
| 2 | And he was right , it had always been between them . |
| 3 | The recollection was faintly depressing , making her realise how little useful or productive communication there had been between them . |
| 4 | It was something he had been wanting to do for over ten years , but , now that he had done it , he had destroy something that had been between them — a mysterious , almost exquisite , promise of delight . |
| 5 | But it was the thought of how things should have been between them . |
| 6 | Or had it been between them , or only in her own highly tuned emotions ? |
| 7 | The chemistry had been between them from the start , waiting only for a wayward spark to ignite it . |
| 8 | A shadow crossed his face ; evidently , thought Karelius , what there had been between him and Louise Müller was not yet dead , and perhaps never would be . |
| 9 | Her threat to leave the job had been an idle one , and whatever ill feeling there had been between her and Jenny must have been papered over . |
| 10 | ‘ That 's all there 's ever been between us ! |
| 11 | ‘ Admit that this has been between us since we first saw each other . |
| 12 | We 've been through ours , we 've been through ours a couple of times . |
| 13 | We 've been through ours , we 've been through ours a couple of times . |
| 14 | We have been through them before . |
| 15 | Scores of people have been through them and their marginal jottings and exclamations are reminders of those who searched and those who found . |
| 16 | I 've been , I 've been through them all and er there 's only one or two that I 've not actually had any contact with actually one way or another . |
| 17 | We have been through them . |
| 18 | And the reasons er for that , it is not necessary to go into them again , we have been through them erm on the erm erm er previous days . |
| 19 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 20 | He talks about his ileostomy ( a permanent colostomy ) with the lack of embarrassment that only someone who has been through it can . |
| 21 | I 've been through it all . |
| 22 | You ca n't forget if you 've been through it , you ca n't . ’ |
| 23 | But Mr Bond has been through it all before . |
| 24 | He 'd never been through it since the time Barry had locked him in . |
| 25 | Then , stretching a point , he declared : ‘ Now I 've been through it all , I have to admit I had a ball . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Cropper will have been through it with a toothcomb . ’ |
| 27 | Having just returned from Scotland 's weekend squad sessions at St. Andrews , two tough dollops of over three hours each , he was feeling the effects , but clearly revels in his involvement : ‘ National sessions are at a higher intensity than those at club and district level in that you are working with very good and experienced players but it is just so enjoyable setting hard challenges whilst you are learning so much from players who have been through it all so often before ’ . |
| 28 | She has been through it all with such tremendous courage and coolness . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been through it and I do n't want them to have to go through it because it can be stopped . |
| 30 | He has been through it , seen it and done it all before . ’ |