Example sentences of "[pron] have [been] there [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | I bet nobody 's been there at all . |
2 | I mean , you were n't even sure she 'd been there at all . ’ |
3 | ‘ Back home in Australia , you can play for my university there , Queensland , for ever , so long as you 've been there at some time . |
4 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
5 | There we dropped off one hunter and his labrador , and collected two others who had been there for several days , totally alone with their guns , their butane gas stove , the deer and the eternal forests surrounding them . |
6 | " Any more than I can explain why cholera should have always attacked those of our soldiers who had recently arrived in the Crimea in preference to those who had been there for some time … |
7 | No war correspondent , however , could have described the gloom that pervaded the air , or the look of hopelessness ingrained on the faces of anyone who had been there for more than a few days . |
8 | See look at all those cross pieces , they look as they 've been there for some purpose , you know ? |
9 | The most difficult part of getting out a galvanised hot water tank is likely to be disconnecting the pipes leading to and from the boiler particularly if they have been there for some time . |
10 | He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see . |
11 | He 'd been there for some time . |
12 | Keith Sutton , prosecuting on behalf of Sefton Council 's Public Protection Department , told the court there was sufficient oil in the insect to suggest it had been there for some time . |
13 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |
14 | Getting the old cistern out can sometimes be a problem — particularly if it 's been there for some time . |
15 | Because then it was that she knew , with blinding clarity , what had been there for some time now . |