Example sentences of "they [verb] been with " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been out and er I do n't know who they 'd been with like but he must of had a bit to drink . |
| 2 | I 've been having discussions too , only in my case they 've been with the Hughes family who run Cheshire Restaurants . |
| 3 | Twice they 've been with a cart , and Miss Theda let them take it all without a word said ! ’ |
| 4 | If they 've been with us for quite some time there are always ways we can enhance people 's skills are n't there ? |
| 5 | erm certainly numerically controlled machine tools , they 've been with us for a number of years now and there 's no doubt about it that micro-electronics is having an influence , or advances in micro-electronics are having a way in which they are implemented , but I feel applications of that type it requires quite a large amount of flexibility in being able to program it to set up one machine , program it differently to set up another machine , say , or to produce one component and another component and so on , so that I think there one is thinking and looking at a more sophisticated type of computer than , say , a simple microcomputer that we 've been talking about earlier . |
| 6 | As Philip Warner has said in The Special Air Service , the official history re-issued in an expanded edition in 1983 , the regiment ‘ has often been criticised for the high proportion of officers and N.C.O.s , as well as first-class men , which it absorbed , and the answer must invariably be that used in this way they caused far more damage to the enemy than they would have done if they had been with other units . |
| 7 | All of the sample of Rowdies were able to plot very accurately where they had stood on the terraces over the last few years , who they had been with , and where they expected to be in the future . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Certainly Churchill and Eden found that their dealings with Eisenhower and Dulles were no easier than they had been with the Democrats : in fact they often thought them worse . |
| 10 | Though these problems are a characteristic feature of modern life , they have been with us for a very long time . |
| 11 | Another approach to the competence question has been to ask clients , retrospectively , how satisfied they have been with the service they have had ( Rosenthal 1974 ) . |
| 12 | Most do not qualify for redundancy pay , pensions , sick pay or national-insurance benefits until they have been with a firm for two years . |
| 13 | The majority of the contracts have been awarded to Northern Ireland institutions and where they have been with other institutions it has been the policy of the Panel to encourage the employment of junior Northern Ireland based researchers on the projects . |