Example sentences of "had been together " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work . |
| 2 | Fiona & Paul had been together for six years before deciding to tie the knot . |
| 3 | One of my former patients , whose ex-husband had spent their entire marriage telling her that she was ‘ stupid ’ or ‘ brainless ’ , told me that , although she knew perfectly well that this was not true , by the time she had heard it said every day for the twelve years they had been together she had begun to believe that there must be something in it . |
| 4 | And again when they had been together for two years and he was still seeing other women : ‘ They were my protection against these feelings I had for her , ’ he said . |
| 5 | They had been together for six months but fell out when he told her he wanted to see more of his friends . |
| 6 | How happy they had been together , he and she and the little lad in the drowsy heat of the meadows . |
| 7 | Sinead had a hard time at school because she was a newcomer in a class which had been together for two years , and some of her fellow pupils knew her recent history . |
| 8 | Nigel and I had been together , as the saying goes , for ten or more years , and as he was approaching sixty — at which age he proposed to retire , we had , for more than a year , spent many weekends searching the British Isles for a dwelling with water-power which , with Nigel 's expertise , would supply all our heating and lighting needs and , in Nigel 's words , ‘ free us from the vagaries of Scargill and the Oil Sheiks ’ . |
| 9 | The odd couple had been together — privately and professionally — for more than 12 years . |
| 10 | In a postscript Dr. Yeats reported that he had subsequently seen both Dr. Thackeray and Mr. Leech who had been together since he had been with them on the previous day . |
| 11 | A few days before Anthony 's death they had been together at the Lancaster Road Baths watching local semi-professional boxers . |
| 12 | He and my mother had been together for at least ten years when I was born , and we think now that I was her hostage to fortune , the factor that might persuade him to get a divorce and marry her . |
| 13 | Indeed , the paralysis he had suffered as a result of her suicide had given way to an energetic creative vitality since he and I had been together . |
| 14 | They had been together all morning , but little had been said . |
| 15 | During the year they had been together , she had seen him time and again in the dark quiet hours when he believed himself to be unobserved . |
| 16 | Still , to look on the bright side : if they had been together all this time , by now they might already be a dull settled couple , instead of which the long separation had preserved the thrill of courtship in their marriage , with letters passing between them constantly . |
| 17 | Lindsey and Pete had started talking about having a baby when she was fourteen , and did so the following year : Pete and me had been together for eleven months and loved each other more than words could say . |
| 18 | High living standards had encouraged migration to these republics from other parts of the USSR , and this became one of the issues most central to the development of a powerful and widely supported nationalist movement in the late 1980s , particularly since the Baltic nations were relatively few in number and tended to have low birth and high divorce rates ( in Latvia , where golden and silver wedding anniversaries had formerly been celebrated , there were ceremonies in the 1980s for couples that had been together for just a few years ) . |
| 19 | When the three of them had been together in the kitchen , the infant Camille crawling round with jam on her face and fingers , he had sat in a state of sullenness bordering on rage or had conspicuously moved about preparing food for himself , knowing quite well that his dinner was cooking in the oven . |
| 20 | I love him like nothing else in my life , but Paula and I had been together when we were all planning Project Eden , before I even met Sam , and I loved her too , and somehow I just could n't stop seeing her … . ’ |
| 21 | The little that she 'd been able to piece together was that Pamela was a barrister , that the house did , as Lucy had suspected , belong to her , and that she and Josie had been together for at least five years and probably longer . |
| 22 | Dermot and I had been together at Eton but then Dermot was one of the Lower boys who came when I shouted " Boy " . |
| 23 | No one , indeed , could have been more easy-going ; but we never got on close terms or found much in common during the four months we had been together since leaving England . |
| 24 | And most of the time they had been together , he had had far too much control . |
| 25 | Now I think I told you last time that er the whole time me and Anne had been together , we 're not drinkers . |
| 26 | She and John had been together again , as they had in their very first year . |
| 27 | He made her laugh at those dinner parties and other gatherings where they had been together . |
| 28 | She imagined Georg happy and married to some nice girl , while she went on in this gulf of misery for the rest of her life , hanging around waiting for glimpses of Gesner , spending every night reliving every moment they had been together , all the wonderful things he had said to her , the magic of his hands when he touched her — she shivered . |
| 29 | Yes sir he told me that er would know because they ha had been together in prison and that he also had information that they had been planning armed robberies together . |
| 30 | Minutes they had been together and yet she felt that if he walked away out of her life now she would feel a loss that could n't be explained . |