Example sentences of "been here for " in BNC.
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| 31 | Whatever the precise date , she knew she had been here for the best part of a month , confined in this tumbledown shepherd 's dwelling among the mountains . |
| 32 | ‘ We have been here for five years . |
| 33 | ‘ If it were obvious , we would n't have been here for five years trying to find it , and Paula would still be … . |
| 34 | He 'd been here for forty-odd years , so he was the chap behind me , if you like . |
| 35 | Although I 've been here for a long time , I 've got my house , got my family here , I 've got comfortable living , although not er luxurious but er normal standard , better standard than I could have in India . |
| 36 | No it was been here for six weeks and I was just expecting to leave |
| 37 | Aye , cos about six month ago there was a job come up in our office for like a trainee assistant manager type , well an assistant to an assistant manager kind of thing so I applied for it and another woman in the office applied for it cos she 's been here for like sixteen years or whatever . |
| 38 | All the time yes , apart from say about six weeks , used to come in in the winter to repair the do maintenance on the dredger and then the old harbourmaster would say right , we should have been here for six weeks , he come after a month , he 'd say , paint the cover the rust up he said and bugger off out again . |
| 39 | No one 's been here for years . ’ |
| 40 | If no one had been here for years , why did she fancy she could smell cigarette smoke ? |
| 41 | She and Tom must have been here for quite a long time , then . |
| 42 | I seem to have been here for ages . ’ |
| 43 | There can be reasons why people make a claim for asylum after they have been here for some time and we consider all cases properly . |
| 44 | There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time . |
| 45 | If the hon. and learned Member for Burton ( Mr. Lawrence ) had been here for the speech of my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) |
| 46 | The hon. Gentleman must forgive me : I want to be fair to other hon. Members who have been here for a long time . |
| 47 | Masklin said we 've been here for thousands of years . |
| 48 | I 've been here for nearly a year now . ’ |
| 49 | His father has n't been here for years . |
| 50 | Now please tell me if I 'm keeping you , I know I 've been here for a very long time |
| 51 | Can I just clarify one other point with the County Council and for the benefit of those who 've not been here for the last however many days . |
| 52 | but it cuts across , no there there comes a point where the of this world say oh am I allowed to do this , am I allowed to do that if you 've been here for more than three years right and it 's particularly prevalent in Scotland , oh are we allowed to do that , oh I did n't know and that 's old that is. old to a certain extent you know , she 's been around longer than has and been around but influenced by who 's been around a long time you see that 's where we get it , you see we do n't get the initiative coming in that area we get we get the oh Christ , bloody hell let's shove that one out the way that 's a national account . |
| 53 | Because when all said and done if at the end of two days you do n't feel that you 're any better at making a presentation then when you started then why have you been here for two days . |
| 54 | ‘ … she 's been here for the best part of a week and you 're no further forward . ’ |
| 55 | The man who 's been here for the past three weekends , always at the same table , always alone and always gazing at you with those incredible dark eyes of his . ’ |
| 56 | ‘ But some of them have been here for ages , ’ she remonstrated . |
| 57 | Some of the staff have been here for twenty years . |
| 58 | ‘ I 've been here for six months . ’ |
| 59 | ‘ So you 've been here for two years , ’ teased Tony as she looked for her key and opened the door , ‘ and still no boyfriend ? ’ |
| 60 | ‘ He 's been here for hours , though . |