Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [verb] together [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish you and I had been tied together for ever ! ’ |
| 2 | His wife , Shirley , believed we 'd been brought together for a reason and , after a while , she reckoned my sight would be healed . |
| 3 | Hell 's teeth , baby — we 've been living together for the last two years or more . ’ |
| 4 | We 've been going together for ages . |
| 5 | We had been snorkelling together in the shallow reefs when we found the most beautiful octopus , barely a hand 's breadth in size , which rhythmically glowed with vivid blue circles . |
| 6 | We had been hillwalking together for several years , and by this time were well aware of the strengths and weaknesses of each other 's paces . |
| 7 | ‘ We had been working together with the county council for some months and the failure of this appeal was extremely disappointing . |
| 8 | ‘ I feel that we have been working together for much longer , ’ says Sandra , ‘ because even when we had our own businesses we would ring each other up for advice . |
| 9 | We have been working together for the past three days . |
| 10 | They 'd been living together for many years . |
| 11 | They feel comfortable in bed together — they 've been sleeping together for years after all , and the new-found passion is lovely and exciting . |
| 12 | That is a reference back to the events of chapter 16 , and strange though it is , it is no more extraordinary than their wish in Exodus 16 that they had been killed together with the Egyptians at the time of the Passover . |
| 13 | They had been living together across the colour bar for the best part of 30 years . |
| 14 | ‘ She said she had known for some time that she and Fabien could not remain at La Tour Monchauzet after their marriage — that they had been talking together about moving away — of going , perhaps , as far as Australia or California and starting a totally new life . |
| 15 | One afternoon , after they had been travelling together for several days , Cleo ordered Dauntless to pull Contralto to a halt . |
| 16 | Had she been asked the same question in different surroundings her amazement might have been tempered with doubt that Nahum Morey was in his right mind , but in this confined space she began to share his conviction that they had been drawn together by their various needs . |
| 17 | Previously they had been grouped together in one modern frame . |
| 18 | Covertly , leaning far back in his chair , he watched McQuaid from under hooded eyelids : in all the years they had been coming together on Monaghan Day McQuaid had always spent the night in the house . |
| 19 | They had been sitting together at the top of their organisations throughout the years of cut-backs . |
| 20 | They had been brought together in St Petersburg two months ago . |
| 21 | Although they have been living together for years they have had no idea how the other really felt . |
| 22 | ( a ) Spouses living together There is no charge to capital gains tax on a transfer of assets between husband and wife provided that they have been living together in the year of assessment in which the transfer takes place ( Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 ) ( " TCGA 1992 " ) , s58 . |
| 23 | The employees ' contracts should clearly state the length of the assignment for which they have been engaged together with details of procedures for termination of employment — both on behalf of the employer and the employee . |
| 24 | This may mean they have been going together for as little time as a few weeks , and a relationship of more than a month or two may be regarded as serious . |
| 25 | They have been loaned together with objects from the treasury and crypt at York and three panels from part of a biblical narrative from Lincoln Cathedral . |
| 26 | It has been put together by a group of younger supporters , and the first issue comes complete with a free disabled driver sticker which should make parking at away games much easier . |
| 27 | Fascinating because it has been brought together by one of Britain 's leading painters ( although Hodgkin denies that the bright colours and strong forms employed by the Mughal period artists have influenced his art ) it is also an important entity in its own right . |
| 28 | Pamela and he had been living together for a while and , until recently , Jimmy had been close to a happiness previously denied him ; both as lover and as surrogate father . |
| 29 | Three of them have been grouped together under the protection of a united association of breeders : the blond Bénais , the chestnut Aure et Saint-Girons in Auroise and the white Lourdais milking breed . |