Example sentences of "had [be] together for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Fiona & Paul had been together for six years before deciding to tie the knot . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They had been together for six months but fell out when he told her he wanted to see more of his friends . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | After all , they had been together for a couple of years and she did idolise him . |