Example sentences of "[been] there [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That unease had already been there over their previous BBC project , Christabel . |
| 2 | Your chances of coming down to London and finding someone who may have been there over a decade ago are not just slim , they 're non-existent . |
| 3 | They have been there over years and many of the established patterns of reaction are demanding to be looked at . |
| 4 | As Carolyn Bartholomew , who has been instrumental in convincing Diana to seek medical help , observes : ‘ It 's been there through her royal career , without a doubt . |
| 5 | They told us they had been there since the outbreak of the war — approximately 34 hours previously . |
| 6 | He was first on with his presentation , and had been there since six-thirty to make sure there were no slip-ups with his slide presentation . |
| 7 | Two long-serving ministers , Dr Brian Mawhinney , who has been there since 1986 , and Mr Richard Needham , since 1985 , both return to senior posts in mainland ministries . |
| 8 | You got half an hour plus ten minutes relief for your refreshments and that would happen at ten in the morning and you 'd been there since seven . |
| 9 | ‘ He 'll have been there since lunchtime like as not . |
| 10 | The shop was often at its busiest on a Saturday , when the farmers came in , or the men who had a half day themselves were marched in by wives to have themselves fitted out by Mr Hogan , or Mike the old assistant , the tailor who had been there since time immemorial . |
| 11 | They have been there since last week . |
| 12 | It must have been there since breakfast . |
| 13 | Aerospatiale and Socata have been there since 1911 and will probably be there for the next 80 years , whether they buy Piper or not . |
| 14 | " Now , " he continued , not looking at them , " the two men standing on either side of the gate in front of us have been there since morning . |
| 15 | He had been there since his early morning session with Tolonen , unaware of how his fate had hung in the balance in the interim , but Li Yuan did not summon him at once . |
| 16 | ‘ Matthew notified us Monday morning and her car was reported in Exeter station car-park on Thursday — been there since Monday morning at least . |
| 17 | Then they were in the flat , the first time she had been there since leaving Oliver typing his letter the previous morning . |
| 18 | I have not been there since yesterday morning . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Ought n't you to be fetching Lisa — she 's been there since 3 and if they 're having a party tonight they 'd probably like to get her off their hands . ’ |
| 20 | We spent most of that first day walking around the town looking at the historical buildings some of which had been there since the mid-sixteenth century . |
| 21 | He had been there since lunchtime , and it had been while she 'd watched him that she had come to the decision that she must go . |
| 22 | The 28 year old has been there since for 13 months . |
| 23 | The wood has been there since the days of King John . |
| 24 | People 's lives were Digital oriented : many had been there since finishing second level school or university … life outside Digital was unthinkable . |
| 25 | I mean , there could I mean I think the House of Commons is now some way past in in my life in the sense I have n't been there since er June . |
| 26 | And I 've been there since Alpha and I every year I 've looked out and watched the form twos . |
| 27 | I can keep it , it 's been there since |
| 28 | Broadstone Estate Agents , they 've been there since last . |
| 29 | I 'm gon na get some and take some down to grandma 's grave so I fe , I feel really guilty we 've not been there since Christmas eve ! |
| 30 | He 's actually been there to . |