Example sentences of "[noun] had [be] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this card had been with either North or South the slam would have been a 75-per-cent chance . |
| 2 | The interviewer , who should have kept her mouth shut , interrupted to ask whether or not Hyacinth had been with him at the Young Conservatives ' Ball . |
| 3 | ‘ It is not very much , ’ concedes Anna Perry , ‘ which makes me wonder why so many of these porters had been with us for so long . |
| 4 | One evening , when Sorrel had been with us for about five years , Sally and I got ready to take her for her usual walk . |
| 5 | If Dana had been with me , they would never have dared . |
| 6 | Ah , said Mr Healey , Enoch had been with him at that seminar in Florence he 'd mentioned . |
| 7 | Hugh had been with NLS for some nine years but unfortunately developed a heart condition which left him unable to drive at work . |
| 8 | Strong , colourful midfield player or striker , Andy Gray had been with the Palace as a schoolboy during the Terry Venables era at Selhurst Park , but disappeared into non-league soccer so that it was actually from Dulwich Hamlet that Manager Steve Coppell initially signed him for The Eagles in November 1984 . |
| 9 | ‘ Your spy ? ’ she gibed , recalling that Cavell had been with her when another DJ had telephoned to ask her out to a street market that only operated at night . |
| 10 | In 1984 , the Court of Session in Edinburgh ( Hay/Briton against Central Regional Council ) refused a 53 year old grandmother custody or access to her six year old grandchild , though it was agreed that the ‘ most significant relationship ’ the child had was with this grandmother . |
| 11 | The closest that the prewar colonel had come to a political affiliation had been with progressive , Christian anti-fascists . |
| 12 | ‘ I mean , if this six weeks had been with U2 or Faith No More , we 'd obviously be doing better than we are . |
| 13 | Only 17 per cent of the older workers had been with the company for less than ten years ( only 5 per cent for less than five years ) , while 68 per cent had twenty years or more service . |
| 14 | George Wing had been with Hay ever since they met at 1660 Heavy Bomber Conversion Unit . |
| 15 | Mr Day had been with the club since the heady days of the Wembley play offs and he brought to the club new hope in the shape of player manager , Glenn Hoddle after the financial scandles which shook the County Ground . |
| 16 | Helen had been with Culley long enough to recognize a red light . |
| 17 | Whitaker had been with him from the very start , a solid , dependable man who knew his own limitations . |
| 18 | Several of the deals had been with Bill Coleby : ‘ Got 2/6 off Coleby for Yugoslav note worth 1s ’ was one which Peter did not remember . |
| 19 | When Jesus , when , while Jesus had been with them they had had the confidence . |
| 20 | All his dealings had been with himself and that larger self of family which had been thrown together by marriage or accident : he had never been able to go out from his shell of self . |
| 21 | Besides , Jessie had been with Marion for years , following her from production to production , doing sewing and little chores in between times when Marion was ‘ resting ’ . |
| 22 | She rubbed at herself inneffectually and he had an impulse to do it for her ; if Oliver had been with them , he would have dried them both , enjoying the feel of their lively , vigorous little bodies , but on her own , without Oliver , she seemed too grown-up , not a child any more . |
| 23 | J. had been with the now famous 617 Squadron for a time , and in talking about this he was able to furnish me with details of an incident which I had vaguely heard of while I was at Bourn . |
| 24 | A thick weekend , McLeish decided , trying to think how best to establish what Yeo 's relationship had been with the dead girl . |
| 25 | She wanted to know — as I suspect you do — what my relationship had been with her late sister . |
| 26 | Newspaper journalists came up with the information that the pachinko barons had been just as liberal with their cash as the Recruit corporation had been with political donations and cheap shares not long before . |
| 27 | The outcome showed both how near and how far Bohr had been with his improvising stab at reality . |
| 28 | He told the man that one woman had been with the nurse when she died , and had heard some secret from her . |
| 29 | She knew Una had been with Con Gallagher , not with friends as her father and half-brothers thought . |
| 30 | To the background of chugging washing-machines , Dustin discovered that Anne had been with the ballet company for three years , had married and divorced financier Winfried Schlote , and had a small three-month-old daughter , Karina . |