Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [be] there for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 2 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 3 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 4 | Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time . |
| 5 | Those papers have been there for more than a century . |
| 6 | The Jordanians are doing a magnificent job , keeping , keeping the show going erm people in those camps in many cases have been there for 4,5 or 7 days . |