Example sentences of "had be with [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He had been with UNACO now for three years and although he still suffered from bouts of homesickness he never allowed those feelings to interfere with his work .
2 Hugh had been with NLS for some nine years but unfortunately developed a heart condition which left him unable to drive at work .
3 He has not been helped by this shyness ( he had been with Essex for three years when Keith Fletcher asked if anyone had heard the young Gooch speak ) and it has led to misrepresentation .
4 He has not been helped by this shyness ( he had been with Essex for three years when Keith Fletcher asked if anyone had heard the young Gooch speak ) and it has led to misrepresentation .
5 I found this strange as apart from 3 years at Leeds , he had been with Sheffield United for 5 years .
6 Hugh was 62 years ' old and had been with Douglas Reyburn for 28 years .
7 For three years he had been with Jesus and heard his teaching — that he was bound to suffer , to die and to be raised from the dead .
8 Mrs MacIllarry and her two children , aged 2 and 4 , had been with Mrs Smith when she was shot .
9 He had been with Sandford since he was a boy and spoke adequate English .
10 They had been followed into the hall by the young man who had been with Dom João on the quay , and Sara felt that other eyes were watching from half-open doors .
11 Terry had been with Fontaine in Beirut .
12 And the change had been with Pamela , not with him .
13 Several of the deals had been with Bill Coleby : ‘ Got 2/6 off Coleby for Yugoslav note worth 1s ’ was one which Peter did not remember .
14 He had been with Gene Amdahl 's Andor America Inc .
15 Fields had spent some months , and a modest amount of money , examining the feasibility of a new transatlantic airline ; he had approached several key figures who had been with Laker Airways and solicited their interest ; he had begun to make enquiries about purchasing an aircraft .
16 Even as the company got bigger , the familial atmosphere on which Virgin had been built in the early Seventies stayed strong , a flame that was kept alight by those who had been with Virgin since the earliest days , until it became a myth , self-perpetuating and strong enough to touch any newcomer to the organisation , strong enough to have even Richard Branson in its grip .
17 I thought she was a vexing girl , and judged that Byron thought the same ; but he was a lot more patient with her than he had been with Polidori .
18 Two of these Mrs Rose could trace but the third had been with Crabb when they said goodbye and was not amongst his personal possessions returned to Crabb 's mother by ‘ Smith ’ .
19 It was all so much easier , somehow , than it had been with Christopher .
20 The magic was every bit as exciting the second time around as it had been with William .
21 He had been with Liddie through the various pre-natal classes , lying on the floor with her and learning the breathing exercises .
22 Indeed , because I had been with giants for so long , I had forgotten that my countrymen were as small as me .
23 George Wing had been with Hay ever since they met at 1660 Heavy Bomber Conversion Unit .
24 He had been with UNACO for two years and , despite his maverick tendencies , he was widely regarded by his peers as the best field operative in the organization .
25 His early connections had been with Henry de Lacy .
26 But at least he had been with Grimma .
27 Another departure was that of Ted Trimmer , half-brother of Deborah Kerr , one more ex-Bristol journalist who had been with TWW more or less since the start .
28 It had been a slip on Doreen 's part , Lucy recalled as she found herself wondering what the situation had been with Clive .
29 Helen had been with Culley long enough to recognize a red light .
30 She knew Una had been with Con Gallagher , not with friends as her father and half-brothers thought .
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