Example sentences of "been [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | The chemistry had been between them from the start , waiting only for a wayward spark to ignite it . |
2 | He 'd never been through it since the time Barry had locked him in . |
3 | The England that Pound mourns the loss of is , as it had been for him from the first , an integral province of western Europe , sharing a common culture with France and always reaching out , through France , to the shores of the Mediterranean . |
4 | The ‘ Minister of the Crown ’ role was hung on little Colin Moynihan for a day or two while everyone tried not to laugh ; he was , after all , only just over five foot tall and Minister for Sport and he had , after all , not slept with Pamella , only been with her at the Winter Ball . |
5 | The old man had been with her in the shop that morning , the same as ever , gossiping about the business , about the vagaries of their customers , the oddities of town councillors and the perverseness of families — all with a humour that was wickedly spiced . |
6 | ‘ I knew my mum because she 'd been with me at the hospital and I remembered my grandad because of his bald head . |
7 | Today , too ; how I wished you had been with me at the concert . |
8 | I think that had you not been with me on the black nights I would have died . |
9 | In early January 1988 about a dozen friends and colleagues , the same people who had been with me on the day John was kidnapped , met at my flat . |
10 | I went out and found in the court two corpses interlocked ; they were the bodies of the two young men who had before been with me in the room ... |
11 | Prince , he said , ‘ has been with me from the commencement of my various works . |
12 | Macmillan then flew back to Treviso to drop off the various Eighth Army officers who had been with him at the conference , had " a short chat " with Gen McCreery , and returned with Philip Broad to Caserta . |
13 | The interviewer , who should have kept her mouth shut , interrupted to ask whether or not Hyacinth had been with him at the Young Conservatives ' Ball . |
14 | Atkins and the other man who had been with him during the doorstep confrontation on Boxing Night were waiting . |
15 | They had climbed all over him in Tatton Park , looked at Granada TV studio sets with him , been with him to the Industrial and Air Museums . |
16 | Burton wrote , with typical flaring generosity ( like his fellow Welshman , Henry VII , he never forgot those who had been with him around the campfire when the crown was hardly even a dream in unreal England ) : |
17 | Prized most of all was the collection of classical poetry — from John Donne to Robert Browning — which enhanced the Hebraic and Yiddish verse that had been with him from the first . |
18 | In Tolkien , by huge contrast , he met a man whose style had been with him from the beginning . |
19 | But his fascination with motion , the ‘ gate of natural philosophy ’ , had probably been with him from the beginning of that decade . |
20 | Whitaker had been with him from the very start , a solid , dependable man who knew his own limitations . |
21 | During cross examination Bobu , Dinca and Postelnicu at times wept openly , Bobu in particular confessing to " contemptible " conduct as the most senior member of the RCP leadership after Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu ( he had been with them during the first stage of their attempted escape on Dec. 22 , by helicopter from the central committee building in Bucharest , as had Manescu , who was a former Vice-President and Nicolae Ceausescu 's brother-in-law ) . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | It has been with us for the past 10 years . |
24 | I think erm there is some dispute as to erm what size the new settlement must be to become what 's termed an integrated and balanced community , and given the importance of this issue , and it has been with us for the last three years , ever since the new settlement was first proposed , erm I find it very surprising that North Yorkshire County Council have not undertaken any work of their own on this subject area , and have relied instead on a a residual approach to find the new settlement size , and I must say I find that very unsatisfactory , what North Yorkshire County Council are inviting you , erm , to accept is whatever size the residual for Greater York is , you know , has been in the past I should say , proposals from the public , from the private sector have come forward , an and the County Council have used those proposals as confirmation that the new settlement of that particular size was viable , it 's a sort of self fulfilling prophecy , now I think that 's unacceptable , what they have n't done is the second part of the technical exercise , which is to look at the thresholds of the various services and facilities required in the new settlement . |
25 | CFCs — the main problem — have been with us since the 1930s , a valued invention because they are non-toxic , non-flammable and cheaper to make than any known substitute . |
26 | … atmospheric pollution has been with us since the creation ; it became much worse … with the Garden of Eden and infinitely worse following the mechanical ingenuity of James Watt . |
27 | Apples have been with us since the dawn of time , in countless varieties of colour , shape and size . |
28 | I suspect that tensions concerning rights , freedoms and responsibilities have been with us since the earliest days of humanity . |
29 | ‘ I further assert that these spores have been with us since the birth of mankind . |
30 | I have been with you since the start of the magazine in 1978 and have every issue published , as well as the two Year Books . |