Example sentences of "they had been together " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of my former patients , whose ex-husband had spent their entire marriage telling her that she was ‘ stupid ’ or ‘ brainless ’ , told me that , although she knew perfectly well that this was not true , by the time she had heard it said every day for the twelve years they had been together she had begun to believe that there must be something in it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They had been together for six months but fell out when he told her he wanted to see more of his friends . |
| 4 | How happy they had been together , he and she and the little lad in the drowsy heat of the meadows . |
| 5 | A few days before Anthony 's death they had been together at the Lancaster Road Baths watching local semi-professional boxers . |
| 6 | They had been together all morning , but little had been said . |
| 7 | During the year they had been together , she had seen him time and again in the dark quiet hours when he believed himself to be unobserved . |
| 8 | Still , to look on the bright side : if they had been together all this time , by now they might already be a dull settled couple , instead of which the long separation had preserved the thrill of courtship in their marriage , with letters passing between them constantly . |
| 9 | And most of the time they had been together , he had had far too much control . |
| 10 | He made her laugh at those dinner parties and other gatherings where they had been together . |
| 11 | She imagined Georg happy and married to some nice girl , while she went on in this gulf of misery for the rest of her life , hanging around waiting for glimpses of Gesner , spending every night reliving every moment they had been together , all the wonderful things he had said to her , the magic of his hands when he touched her — she shivered . |
| 12 | Minutes they had been together and yet she felt that if he walked away out of her life now she would feel a loss that could n't be explained . |
| 13 | After all , they had been together for a couple of years and she did idolise him . |