Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] be [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We at Halpern and Woolf believe the recession has been with us for some months already ; the C B I takes the same view and they 're pressing for interest rate reductions now to restore business confidence . |
| 2 | He fled from persecution in Japan , where a gargantuan madness industry has been after him . |
| 3 | Hermanns has been with me for over twenty years ; he is the best recording engineer I know . |
| 4 | What was read aid preached was to me airy nothing . |
| 5 | No one could tell she and Nevil had been in it . |
| 6 | The interviewer , who should have kept her mouth shut , interrupted to ask whether or not Hyacinth had been with him at the Young Conservatives ' Ball . |
| 7 | He had been as anonymous to Aldhelm as Aldhelm had been to him . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | One evening , when Sorrel had been with us for about five years , Sally and I got ready to take her for her usual walk . |
| 10 | If Dana had been with me , they would never have dared . |
| 11 | His hand was hard , the skin warm , the pressure firm , as forceful against her own palm as his mouth had been against hers . |
| 12 | Now , if any of your other readers have been with you that length of time then , like me , they will have seen many changes in the magazine in terms of staff , reviews , layout and style . |
| 13 | ‘ I further assert that these spores have been with us since the birth of mankind . |
| 14 | Electric cars have been with us as milk floats for many years . |
| 15 | ‘ Eh-up , Cupid 's been at it again , ’ Ben Bradshaw said in a lousy Yorkshire accent . |
| 16 | Now Molly 's been with her since she first got married , you know . |
| 17 | Since the final Munro has been with you all the way along , it 's only here that you feel you are now finally making your way towards it and the conclusion of the walk . |
| 18 | But Mr Bond has been through it all before . |
| 19 | The Shah , according to Afshar , replied that the British and American ambassadors had been against it ; they thought it was better to have a quiet man like Azhari who could discuss problems with mullahs leading the revolutionary ferment . |
| 20 | Ah , said Mr Healey , Enoch had been with him at that seminar in Florence he 'd mentioned . |
| 21 | Cuddling Alex , Mary Demetriou said her £10,000 , two-year legal battle had been worth it . |
| 22 | The rats had been at it , the body is already half-gnawed . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Your spy ? ’ she gibed , recalling that Cavell had been with her when another DJ had telephoned to ask her out to a street market that only operated at night . |
| 24 | As though the mice had been at it . |
| 25 | Now he was sharp and alert and as curt and direct as Sandison had been to him the day before . |
| 26 | Cos my feet have been in them now , can you put these like that ? |
| 27 | Laura 's parents have been with her since she was flown to the US on May 30 . |
| 28 | Fashion and make-up have been with us for a very long time indeed — there are make-up palettes surviving from ancient Egypt — and although men in certain times and cultures may devote a lot of effort to their appearance , it has remained chiefly a feminine domain . |
| 29 | Erm , Jane 's been with us now for eight months , and this is her , how many ? the sixth outfit she 's worked in . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's amazing what a help Olivia has been to me . ’ |