Example sentences of "had [been] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr John Hill , who had been with the International Brigade in Spain , Dr Neil Leitch from Queensland , Australia , Dr Fytiaras from Greece . |
| 2 | The rush was over by then , so I had time to listen to him telling me how bored he had been with the monotonous life in Parma . |
| 3 | Mr Smith , an experienced instructor , had been with the flying college of five years . |
| 4 | A thick weekend , McLeish decided , trying to think how best to establish what Yeo 's relationship had been with the dead girl . |
| 5 | Josef Mauer had been with the Austrian police for eighteen years , the last eleven as a sergeant stationed in Linz , but despite numerous attempts by his superior to change his mind he had never been interested in promotion , preferring the everyday excitement that came with riding the streets in a police car to struggling with a mound of paperwork in some closeted office . |
| 6 | As they approached , she recognised the leader of the group as being one who had been with the previous rafting party . |
| 7 | He had been with the British troops at the liberation of Belsen . |