Example sentences of "been here [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , they 've been here about a few years now . |
| 2 | It 's alright us starting to go along the road of closures , but some of us have been here through it a lot , little bit longer than others and I think we have got to watch what we 're doing . |
| 3 | We have been here under many governments since 1971 and will continue to be here under many more , ’ the Salomon spokesman said . |
| 4 | I think I been here with Marie . |
| 5 | She could have been here with Gran . ’ |
| 6 | Her last thought was to wonder what life would have been like had she been here with her father instead of in England with her mother . |
| 7 | There were so many more than when she had been here with Morthen . |
| 8 | You should have been here with me tonight . ’ |
| 9 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |
| 10 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 11 | ‘ I would think it 's been here for several days , sir . |
| 12 | She had been here for twenty minutes , during which time Alida Thorne had backtracked and made difficulties , pretended not to understand . |
| 13 | I 've been here for some time . |
| 14 | ‘ Since you had not been here for a fortnight , ’ he said , ‘ I assumed that you had completed your enquiries . ’ |
| 15 | She wished he could have been here for Christmas . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's been here for too long . ’ |
| 17 | I 've been here for about a week now . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ He 's married a Welsh girl , has two Welsh kids and has been here for five years . |
| 19 | I 've been here for years and this is the first conversation I 've had with a human for simply ages . |
| 20 | God Almighty , Nan , I 've been here for the past two hours without knowing hair nor hide of you . ’ |
| 21 | Then she said , quietly , ‘ Yes , although I have n't been here for a long time . |
| 22 | ‘ The Arbuthnots have been here for generations . |
| 23 | ‘ But we 've been here for thousands of years ! |
| 24 | She said , ‘ I 've been here for three weeks , I have n't seen one movie star until now , ’ and she came over and got my autograph . |
| 25 | ‘ He has n't been here for some time , ’ Hari answered . |
| 26 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 27 | If the adventurers ask about the Oracle himself , he will give only the barest of details ; that he is a seer into the future , a servant to his master ( Drachenfels ) , and he has been here for — he ca n't remember how long . |
| 28 | I have been here for decades untold in this court , never leaving it except in my mind , ranging to far stars yet never truly experiencing those elsewheres . |
| 29 | I should have been here for you a long time ago . |
| 30 | On the one hand , ethnic minorities currently settled in Britain have been here for a relatively short period of time , and it seems that circumstances of migration and initial settlement are conditions under which support between siblings assumes greater significance than it might otherwise do — a point illustrated by the patterns of chain migration and of joint households which I discussed earlier in this chapter . |