Example sentences of "[adv] [been] with [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ Minister of the Crown ’ role was hung on little Colin Moynihan for a day or two while everyone tried not to laugh ; he was , after all , only just over five foot tall and Minister for Sport and he had , after all , not slept with Pamella , only been with her at the Winter Ball . |
| 2 | Actually , she 's only been with us for eleven months . |
| 3 | During the past four years , and it really has only been with us for that long , desktop publishing has managed to get itself a fairly bad name among the professional graphics community . |
| 4 | I think that had you not been with me on the black nights I would have died . |
| 5 | And she 'd already been with me for several years before we met , so you felt that perhaps she knew me better than you did , and you hated that . ’ |
| 6 | How strict Tata had always been with me as a child ; even taken the strap to me on a couple of occasions , once for pinching ‘ fress ’ , or buns as Mother called them , behind his back — he did n't mind how much I took from the shop as long as I asked — and once for saying ‘ Damn ’ when I cut my finger peeling an apple . |
| 7 | But his fascination with motion , the ‘ gate of natural philosophy ’ , had probably been with him from the beginning of that decade . |
| 8 | There is somebody in that company , who 's probably been with it for nine months , who knows it backwards and who 's capable of playing the role . |
| 9 | I went out and found in the court two corpses interlocked ; they were the bodies of the two young men who had before been with me in the room ... |