Example sentences of "[pron] have [been] there for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First of all I thought I 'd tell you who I was I 'm a G P in er in New Harlow , in Bush Fair , and I 've been there for nearly three years now . |
| 2 | She 'd been there for less than two weeks when her employers discovered she has leukaemia . |
| 3 | Exactly , unless they guarantee human rights er , you see , what 's really happening especially in the Baltic , that is er there , there is an anti Russian feeling you know , and er there is element in in the Baltic Republic who want to er , want to deport the Russian population who 've been there for maybe for the last forty five years . |
| 4 | When she had been there for about six weeks she received the Medical Superintendent 's recommendation for her bravery . |
| 5 | And sad things like children falling into fires and because in the mud huts you have the fire in the centre of the hut and it 's quite easy for the children to fall in and there was one little boy there who had been there for over a year and they kept trying to erm heal up all his skin wounds . |
| 6 | And er then we erm we , we , we went on the wards for about two or three hours a day and we just s sort of did what we were told , took out drinks and , and that sort of thing , and mouthwashes , and after er we 'd been there for about six or eight weeks we were allowed to wash patients , if , if they could n't wash themselves . |
| 7 | They 'd been there for more than fifteen years . |
| 8 | It has been there for more than ten years . |
| 9 | It 's rather like er I had a plant the other day , a marigold , and it had been there for about two weeks and it was a lovely plant , and er I noticed it beginning to droop and I thought , oh well it 's finished now , it 's in a pot . |
| 10 | He had been there for almost two weeks now , visiting Uncle Lionel . |
| 11 | Yeah , it 's been there for quite a while . |