Example sentences of "been here for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I would think it 's been here for several days , sir . |
| 3 | She had been here for twenty minutes , during which time Alida Thorne had backtracked and made difficulties , pretended not to understand . |
| 4 | I 've been here for some time . |
| 5 | ‘ Since you had not been here for a fortnight , ’ he said , ‘ I assumed that you had completed your enquiries . ’ |
| 6 | She wished he could have been here for Christmas . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's been here for too long . ’ |
| 8 | I 've been here for about a week now . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ He 's married a Welsh girl , has two Welsh kids and has been here for five years . |
| 10 | I 've been here for years and this is the first conversation I 've had with a human for simply ages . |
| 11 | God Almighty , Nan , I 've been here for the past two hours without knowing hair nor hide of you . ’ |
| 12 | Then she said , quietly , ‘ Yes , although I have n't been here for a long time . |
| 13 | ‘ The Arbuthnots have been here for generations . |
| 14 | ‘ But we 've been here for thousands of years ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ He has n't been here for some time , ’ Hari answered . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I should have been here for you a long time ago . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They were a striking couple — tall , slim and very , very pale against old hands who 'd been here for days or even weeks . |
| 23 | Pulling off the sticky brambles that clung to their jeans , Carrie 's children said , ‘ No one 's been here for hundreds of years … ’ |
| 24 | We 've been here for six months . |
| 25 | Now that we had been here for nearly seven weeks , we were beginning to wonder if the final climax would ever take place at all . |
| 26 | I have n't been here for years , although the land belongs to me . |
| 27 | ‘ You have n't been here for weeks — all the time I was ill . |
| 28 | Well , Jim , I 've been here for three years , and no real food from that day to this . |
| 29 | You know a lot of the erm shops that have been here for many years |
| 30 | ‘ I have n't been here for very long . |