Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the poor themselves , the inner city has long been with us . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Landscape painting is flourishing in Scotland today , artists resident , their subject matter possibly more valued than it has ever been with so much ‘ green ’ and wilderness awareness . |
| 4 | They say no Michael Green has ever been with them . |
| 5 | Promiscuity has always been with us . |
| 6 | Crime has always been with us and Halling was no exception and it has been estimated that Kent 's crime rate in the 13th century was higher than any other county , and a statement by Prof. James Given , of Michigan , says that the percentage of murders at 23 per 100,000 in Kent was higher than the U.S.A. average of today . |
| 7 | He has probably been with his company for 13 years and in his present job for four . |
| 8 | Pakistan is Chris 's first overseas post but Rupert has also been with LASMO Columbia . |
| 9 | Since the 1960s government 's major preoccupation has primarily been with the practices of investment appraisal adopted by its trading organizations , principally the nationalized industries . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He 'd tell me I was the nicest woman he 'd ever been with . |
| 12 | Easily the oldest woman he 'd ever been with . |
| 13 | And then the guitarist went from Davey to Bernie Watson , who 'd previously been with Screaming Lord Sutch 's band ; then from Bernie to Roger Dean ( yes , the one who does all that artwork on Yes albums ) and from Roger Dean to Eric , and then Eric to Greeny and then to Mick Taylor … ’ |
| 14 | At one year old he was the ideal age for breeding and although he 'd never been with another bird before , his first mate produced eggs within two months . |
| 15 | The England midfielder added : ‘ I 've only been with Leeds for a few days but that 's long enough to know I 've made the right decision coming here . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ After all , I 've only been with them a few years . ’ |
| 17 | I 've only been in the industry , I 've only been with this company for two and half years , and when I joined and had a look at what the industry was about , there were thirty express overnight carriers . |
| 18 | Now some of you , if you 've only been with the company a few months or whatever it was , may not have noticed too much of a change , er , but I 've noticed a bit of a ch , I 've noticed a tremendous change in two and half months , two and a half years , and there 's some people in the room who must have noticed tremendous changes . |
| 19 | Nancy Ball had only been with Hugo for a few months and it was much longer than that since Harriet had visited him at the office . |
| 20 | Both were initiated by Billy , a 16-year-old with a recently acquired impairment who had only been with the group for a year . |
| 21 | Oxford Pest Control 's newest technician John Rilby had only been with the company four days but had already made his mark . |
| 22 | And the Substitute had better be with me — tell Bacci he can take my car down to Florence , I do n't really need him and the Substitute can take me back with him … |
| 23 | His jotting pad was covered with hot-air balloons , intricately patterned and decorated ; part of his mind had obviously been with his private passion . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've just been with Michael Stein in Immigration . |
| 25 | Bet it 's all cos Nick is n't down there or something , no you 've just been with Nick . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Taking all these things together , I think they give ground for the suspicion expressed by Mr. Henderson and other Labour ministers that Mr. MacDonald had deliberately planned the scheme of a National government ; which would at the same time enable him to retain the position of Prime Minister and to associate with colleagues with whom he was more in sympathy than he had ever been with his Labour colleagues … |
| 28 | Passion had swept in then , and he had entered her , unable to help himself , clinging to her as she had earlier clung to him , and although he had been gentler than he had ever been with any other woman , she had cried out , and her face had twisted with pain , and Fergus had felt blood on his thighs . |
| 29 | It would be the first time she had ever been with John to a place that was part of her own particular world , unless one counted the Ash Wednesday lunchtime service at her uncle 's church . |
| 30 | Our friendship had brought us closer than I had ever been with anyone before . |