Example sentences of "have been with [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As many parents have discovered , the problem with disposable nappies up to now has been with that word ‘ disposable ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ The liaison has been with all of the functional groups within the computer centre : analysis and programming , operations , user services , communications and technical support and data preparation . |
| 3 | R R Ricky er Richie er longer than she 'd been with any you know , boy that she got on with |
| 4 | How else would he have been with such a father ? |
| 5 | This is not , as it might have been with such a tale , the cuckolded merchant , but rather Margery , the stupid wife , who is particularly funny because she is so unthinkingly conventionally good and who effaces any real self she may be imagined to have within a cluster of clichés . |
| 6 | If I could have departed then , never reentered the house , it would have been with some strength of mind . |
| 7 | It must have been with some degree of cautiousness and a heightened sense of responsibility that Gould once more stocked up on shot , caps , and powder on his way back through Launceston for the journey home . |
| 8 | Wallace came on shortly before time and showed what could have been with some fast ground-oriented attacking . |
| 9 | She thought how rough they had been with each other , how savage almost , sometimes in an odd way wanting to be done so that they could begin all over again . |
| 10 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
| 11 | Apart from the two social occasions when he had been with another girl , Liza had seen little of him , even though she had taken every opportunity to pass by the farmhouse where he was billeted . |
| 12 | I suppose you 've been with that awful Mug-govertski ? ’ |