Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] there [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been there for Harry and the arrow had by-passed my heart . |
| 2 | And I 've been there since Alpha and I every year I 've looked out and watched the form twos . |
| 3 | I have been there with Nurse Davis . |
| 4 | She had n't known Mark very well , but she had been there for Robyn when he had died , seen the agony that her friend had gone through . |
| 5 | She had been there on sufferance for so long and yet she had never been quite brave enough to break free , to launch out by herself . |
| 6 | She 's been there for months — it 's a long-term project … |
| 7 | Mhm cos they 've been there for ages have n't they Mary do n't you think ? |
| 8 | Some refugees in the embassy gardens said they had been there for days , but had not boarded the sealed refugee trains travelling through East Germany to Bavaria . |
| 9 | Diamonds and rare jewels were strewn across the floor as if they had been there for millennia . |
| 10 | They are there ; they have been there for years . |
| 11 | Rocks look more natural if you bed them into the gravel slightly , as if they have been there for years . |
| 12 | No footings were laid — the walls were built directly on the patio paving stones ; they have been there for years and I thought there was little chance of them subsiding . |
| 13 | They have been there over years and many of the established patterns of reaction are demanding to be looked at . |
| 14 | Peaceful , mellow and noble , in the shade of a great sycamore , it is the sort of house that feels as though it has been there from time immemorial . |
| 15 | His body was cold-I think he 'd been there for hours . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It had been there for years — I played there myself as a child — but it was situated in the worst possible place . |
| 17 | But he had been there with Montaine and he could n't bear to see the place again — not then . |
| 18 | Ken wanted to go to Tangier — ‘ He had been there with Orton and all that jazz and I was n't interested . ’ |
| 19 | He had been there since lunchtime , and it had been while she 'd watched him that she had come to the decision that she must go . |
| 20 | Whether he had been there by accident or whether he had spotted me arriving and slunk into position I shall never know , but from his point of view the result must have been eminently satisfactory because it was certainly the worst fright I have ever had . |
| 21 | It 's been there for ages and ages and ages . |
| 22 | We broke that , or that was broke er , but we 'll blame the carrier now and look at it , then our security guy goes out and they know it 's been sitting around someone 's you know , it 's been there for months ! |
| 23 | He 's been there for weeks and I could have done the whole thing in a couple of days . |
| 24 | " Now , " he continued , not looking at them , " the two men standing on either side of the gate in front of us have been there since morning . |