Example sentences of "been [prep] war with " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Elector of Hanover George I had been at war with Charles XII of Sweden , one of the outstanding soldiers of his time , since October 1715 and England now became involved due to the frequent presence of an English fleet in the Baltic , which the Swedes were inclined to regard , as the English did the Channel , as a private sea of their own . |
| 2 | The Khmer Rouge has been at war with the official Government since 1979 . |
| 3 | All over the Western world an intelligentsia had recently been at war with itself : the screaming-point being reached and passed in 1935–6 , with Mussolini 's violent seizure of Ethiopia and the outbreak of civil war in Spain . |
| 4 | Britain by then had been at war with Germany for two years , but the Soviet Union was only drawn into the conflict in June by a sudden German invasion , whilst the US entered the war in December after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor . |
| 5 | ‘ The biggest gang we 've got has been at war with its rival for eleven years , ’ Hart explained . |
| 6 | They 've been at war with us for three years , you see . ’ |
| 7 | if we , if there was no nuclear weapons I reckon we would of , probably would of been at war with Russia now |
| 8 | did , did have and I 'll still say the only reason we have n't been at war with them is because of the army , arm |
| 9 | It , it 's only part of , of the pattern , but it 's obviously er a good sign because er Iran has reason to know er what Saddam Hussein is like , having been at war with him for eight years — totally un , unpredictable man and a completely ruthless man . |