Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] [adj] other " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is wise to bear in mind that similar reasoning has been used by many others — so much so that much of our supposed ‘ knowledge ’ of the history of English phonology is filtered through this kind of reasoning . |
| 2 | I would n't have been bothered about any other cos you see it better on the , on the screen . |
| 3 | The case of each party is usually presented by a director , merchant banker or solicitor with their written cases having been submitted to each other beforehand . |
| 4 | In each case the siblings concerned had been separated from each other when they were babies . |
| 5 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 6 | Eventually , after she had been joined by two others whose grasp of the English language was as poor as hers , they booked in to two rooms . |
| 7 | At Philadelphia he had been joined by two others in what was obviously a preplanned meeting since the moment dinner was cleared away and a new round of gin and diet tonics ordered they began a miniature board meeting . |
| 8 | In 1907 Picasso and Braque had been living near each other in Montmartre for some time , and after 1908 began meeting daily to talk , visit the galleries and museums , and to examine each other 's work . |
| 9 | The two cousins had been writing to each other in secret for several weeks , and Cathy had used the milkman as a messenger . |
| 10 | Mr Campbell said that during the first incident , when Mr Friel and the two younger accused had been shouting at each other in the shopping centre , the lawyer had struck the 15-year-old on the face with the dog leash . |
| 11 | It took me a lot more years , and even more boyfriends , to cotton on , by which time most of the occupants of the back rows had been married to each other for years and were on their second spin dryer . |
| 12 | When he did not return for quite a while , she guessed they had been talking to each other about her . |
| 13 | We 've been writing to each other for eight years but had never met until this year . |
| 14 | These disciplines have been joined by many others from different fields , from Law to Business Studies , to Social Administration , to Gender Studies , to Forestry , Religious Studies and Natural Resources . |
| 15 | In the last week , both Protestants and Republicans have been vying with each other to grab the headlines by claiming the 3,000th victim . |
| 16 | The former personal systems and advanced systems divisions have been replaced by seven others , including a volume products division headed up by Tom Furlong , who hails from MIPS , a visual computing division , being run by Mike Ramsey of SGI , a client/server group and an OEM and business systems division . |
| 17 | One indication of that was that at the request of the British , both sides agreed to stop the radio propaganda campaigns they have been waging against each other . |
| 18 | After all , the Central Council of Physical Recreation — of which the Duke is president — and the Sports Council , the two most powerful bodies in British sport , have been sniping at each other for years . |
| 19 | Tories have been battling with each other in the Commons , on TV , in the newspapers and on the floor of the Tory Party conference with a ferocity never seen this century . |
| 20 | Some twenty per cent of all Oscar-winning actors , actresses and directors have been married to each other at one time or another . |