Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] there [prep] [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 | Well it does , I mean it 's it 's I mean I 've been there about just over three years , three and a half years . |
| 3 | She 'd been there for less than two weeks when her employers discovered she has leukaemia . |
| 4 | When she had been there for about six weeks she received the Medical Superintendent 's recommendation for her bravery . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They 'd been there for more than fifteen years . |
| 7 | It has been there for more than ten years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had been there for almost two weeks now , visiting Uncle Lionel . |
| 10 | He had been there at least a week , a stain of blood spreading out from his face across the bottom mattress , his shattered body preserved by the freezing February weather . |
| 11 | Yeah , it 's been there for quite a while . |