Example sentences of "[verb] been together for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Christian may be in a church which has been together for several hundred years , and so he knows there is a certain likelihood of it still being together next year ! |
| 2 | ‘ This outfit has been together for almost three years , everyone knows each other , we all get on and there 's no prima donnas etime . ’ |
| 3 | Sandra said : ‘ It has been a very worthwhile project from the health and safety aspect by a very successful QC team which has been together for almost three years . ’ |
| 4 | Operating as Shadowfax Restaurants , the partnership has been together for a number of years , and currently has two Pizza Express outlets in Barnet and Finchley , and part ownership of a pizza restaurant in the West End of London . |
| 5 | ‘ It was a crowd of boys who 'd been together for years — somebody was always up to something . |
| 6 | I told him about my uncle after we 'd been together for six months and , though he was outraged , I persuaded him not to confront Joe or tell anyone . |
| 7 | ‘ We 'd been together for — since I was 17 . |
| 8 | They 'd been together for eighteen months or more , and she had no one else . |
| 9 | Having been together for ten years , disbanding twice and then leaving prolific label 4AD , ME went to America to chance it lucky . |
| 10 | He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work . |
| 11 | Fiona & Paul had been together for six years before deciding to tie the knot . |
| 12 | And again when they had been together for two years and he was still seeing other women : ‘ They were my protection against these feelings I had for her , ’ he said . |
| 13 | They had been together for six months but fell out when he told her he wanted to see more of his friends . |
| 14 | Sinead had a hard time at school because she was a newcomer in a class which had been together for two years , and some of her fellow pupils knew her recent history . |
| 15 | He and my mother had been together for at least ten years when I was born , and we think now that I was her hostage to fortune , the factor that might persuade him to get a divorce and marry her . |
| 16 | Lindsey and Pete had started talking about having a baby when she was fourteen , and did so the following year : Pete and me had been together for eleven months and loved each other more than words could say . |
| 17 | High living standards had encouraged migration to these republics from other parts of the USSR , and this became one of the issues most central to the development of a powerful and widely supported nationalist movement in the late 1980s , particularly since the Baltic nations were relatively few in number and tended to have low birth and high divorce rates ( in Latvia , where golden and silver wedding anniversaries had formerly been celebrated , there were ceremonies in the 1980s for couples that had been together for just a few years ) . |
| 18 | The little that she 'd been able to piece together was that Pamela was a barrister , that the house did , as Lucy had suspected , belong to her , and that she and Josie had been together for at least five years and probably longer . |
| 19 | After all , they had been together for a couple of years and she did idolise him . |
| 20 | He loves you , he 's a good bloke , you 've been together for over a year . |
| 21 | They 've been together for fourteen years , they met at school . |
| 22 | There 's just one thing : what happens to band who 've been together for virtually a decade ? |
| 23 | We 've been together for 23 years . |
| 24 | They 've been together for the past six years — which she cites as one very good reason why she did n't fall for Craig McLachlan while playing his leading lady . |
| 25 | er just one after thought , Dennis mentioned teamwork , now we we 've been together for a few years basically , but you might say , we work as a team , everyone gets on , everyone helps each other out . |
| 26 | We 've been together for five years , Lexy and I — she practically holds that company together . |
| 27 | ‘ We 've been together for more than 18 months and we see one another when we can . |
| 28 | And , as I say , we 've been together for a long time and the appointment , the changeover of the appointments |
| 29 | If they have been together for a whole day or days in conference or retreat then there is a dynamic already present . |
| 30 | Or if members of a group are not familiar with each other , no mutual aid may occur until they have been together for some time . |