Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] with [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The employee was married and had been with a savings bank in a small town for more than 26 years . |
2 | Before the war , Lewes had been President of the Oxford University Boat Club , and was quiet and studious , in contrast to most of the young officers who had been with the Commandos . |
3 | Certainly Churchill and Eden found that their dealings with Eisenhower and Dulles were no easier than they had been with the Democrats : in fact they often thought them worse . |
4 | I asked him how long he had been with the Republicans and he said , ‘ Three weeks — I 'm a sales manager and I 've been given leave of absence by my company just to produce last night 's rally . ’ |
5 | He had been with the police for 14 years and only recently transferred to Whickham police station near Gateshead . |