Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] with [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been with them for twenty seven years . |
| 2 | The watchmaker confirmed he 'd been with him at two . |
| 3 | I 'd been with her for 12 hours at the delivery of her beautiful baby daughter . |
| 4 | ‘ I knew my mum because she 'd been with me at the hospital and I remembered my grandad because of his bald head . |
| 5 | She 'd been with us for a year when we went for a day 's walk in the country . |
| 6 | She named the same two hand-maids who had been with me on my first visit . |
| 7 | In early January 1988 about a dozen friends and colleagues , the same people who had been with me on the day John was kidnapped , met at my flat . |
| 8 | Today , too ; how I wished you had been with me at the concert . |
| 9 | He said , ‘ I had been with her for three years , in love . |
| 10 | Rose Mundy told me of her continual battle with overweight thighs , a problem that had been with her for as long as she could remember . |
| 11 | Lord Archer and Lord Healey , both in Santa Claus outfits , had been with her at an event in honour of Headway , the National Head Injuries Association . |
| 12 | The old man had been with her in the shop that morning , the same as ever , gossiping about the business , about the vagaries of their customers , the oddities of town councillors and the perverseness of families — all with a humour that was wickedly spiced . |
| 13 | Joan was ushered into the king 's private chamber by a manservant who had been with him since infancy . |
| 14 | The same woman who had been with him on Saturday . |
| 15 | Some had been with him on that night . |
| 16 | Ah , said Mr Healey , Enoch had been with him at that seminar in Florence he 'd mentioned . |
| 17 | Macmillan then flew back to Treviso to drop off the various Eighth Army officers who had been with him at the conference , had " a short chat " with Gen McCreery , and returned with Philip Broad to Caserta . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | To them he gave detailed care now as always : most had been with him for many years . |
| 21 | She was almost the same age as Julius , and had been with him for over ten years . |
| 22 | Atkins and the other man who had been with him during the doorstep confrontation on Boxing Night were waiting . |
| 23 | Burton wrote , with typical flaring generosity ( like his fellow Welshman , Henry VII , he never forgot those who had been with him around the campfire when the crown was hardly even a dream in unreal England ) : |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In Tolkien , by huge contrast , he met a man whose style had been with him from the beginning . |
| 26 | Whitaker had been with him from the very start , a solid , dependable man who knew his own limitations . |
| 27 | In the end of American officers were rescued by the intervention of one of Khomeini closest associates , Ibrahim Yazdi , who had been with him in exile and who became foreign minister . |
| 28 | In a postscript Dr. Yeats reported that he had subsequently seen both Dr. Thackeray and Mr. Leech who had been together since he had been with them on the previous day . |
| 29 | During cross examination Bobu , Dinca and Postelnicu at times wept openly , Bobu in particular confessing to " contemptible " conduct as the most senior member of the RCP leadership after Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu ( he had been with them during the first stage of their attempted escape on Dec. 22 , by helicopter from the central committee building in Bucharest , as had Manescu , who was a former Vice-President and Nicolae Ceausescu 's brother-in-law ) . |
| 30 | Vaguely she wondered why the daily woman who had been with them for years had not put in an appearance before now , and listened in vain for the cheerful clatter of tea-cups in the passage outside . |