Example sentences of "[noun pl] had be with " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I mean , if this six weeks had been with U2 or Faith No More , we 'd obviously be doing better than we are . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His early connections had been with Henry de Lacy . |
| 7 | Since the end of March control of Moscow 's police had been with a new directorate headed by USSR First Deputy Interior Minster Ivan Shilov and responsible directly to the USSR Interior Ministry [ see p. 38080 ] . |
| 8 | I wished our teenage children had been with us , they would have revelled in all the water sports , in the bay . |
| 9 | If the children had been with us they 'd have been in the disco , fortunately soundproofed , every night . |
| 10 | In 1975 Sartre conceded that the only person who had even marginally influenced him intellectually had been Nizan.33 The previous year , in a conversation with Simone de Beauvoir , he confessed that throughout his life his only true friendships had been with a number of women and with Nizan . |