Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [prep] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was disappointed at what happened , but I 'm not the only one who has been through something like that . |
| 2 | Instead , he was troubled at the start by a cold which has been with him since last week . |
| 3 | ‘ And , ’ Claire continued , confirming her misgivings , ‘ his heart is tied up with a woman , one who has been with him for many years now . ’ |
| 4 | As in all things , you have a team which has been with you for many years ? |
| 5 | Mr Chairman , the traffic problem has been with us for many years as our village existed before the motor car . |
| 6 | We at Halpern and Woolf believe the recession has been with us for some months already ; the C B I takes the same view and they 're pressing for interest rate reductions now to restore business confidence . |
| 7 | ‘ Miss Sowerby , ’ Reid explained , ‘ has been with us for several years . |
| 8 | She has been with us since 1988 and has played a significant role in the development of CCG 's in-house marketing strategies . |
| 9 | We 'd been discussing something else , and I said it out of the blue , but in my mind it was as if we 'd just been talking about Oliver , and the way she answered , as if she thought we 'd just been talking about Oliver too and there was n't any break in that conversation even though we 'd been through lots of different subjects in the meantime , made me feel very cheerful . |
| 10 | He 'd been with them for twenty seven years . |
| 11 | The watchmaker confirmed he 'd been with him at two . |
| 12 | I 'd been with her for 12 hours at the delivery of her beautiful baby daughter . |
| 13 | She had her difficulties , too , or she would have been with him by this ; but she was as much the prisoner of circumstances as he , and could not well take ship until she had established a firm and safe regime for her young son . |
| 14 | Again her mathematics O level was already a re-sit and again it might have been beyond her at that stage . |
| 15 | Funny thing was , he thought to himself , as he walked back to his own house , they might not have been after me at all . |
| 16 | Well daddy was to have been with us for this was n't he , for this meal ? |
| 17 | We had been at it for three months now . |
| 18 | He said , ‘ I had been with her for three years , in love . |
| 19 | Some had been with him on that night . |
| 20 | Ah , said Mr Healey , Enoch had been with him at that seminar in Florence he 'd mentioned . |
| 21 | To them he gave detailed care now as always : most had been with him for many years . |
| 22 | He had been with them for some time ; two or three years before , he had told her that he did n't know where he had been born , or who his parents were . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been to something like two dozen breweries in Belgium . |
| 24 | But I 've been at it for 15 years . |
| 25 | We 've been at it since six . ’ |
| 26 | Well I like my mum and dad here ( adoptive parents ) 'cause I 've been with them for some years , but there again , I like my own father as well ... we still think of him and would like to go and visit him . |
| 27 | And I said yes , I said you know what Sue can be like , you 've been with her for twelve months and you 're daft enough |
| 28 | ‘ Look , Dr. Briant , I 've been with you on this from the word go , you know I have . |
| 29 | ‘ Mark , ’ she began , ‘ you 've been with us for some time . ’ |
| 30 | Harry : ‘ I 'd have asked them , ‘ This opera , you 've been in it for long time — do you still like it then ? … |