Example sentences of "be [verb] here [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in that case why had he been invited here in the first place ? |
| 2 | Royston Lambert captured this mood in a seventeen-year-old boy talking about his family and school : ‘ They have been coming here since the seventeenth century , I think , although what they did before that I ca n't imagine , had Tutors I suppose . |
| 3 | A party from the Ordnance Survey left after having been stationed here for the last six months . |
| 4 | Slate has been quarried here since the fourteenth century , and continuously since at least Tudor times ; in those days there were many separate quarries extracting the valuable material for use as roofing , flooring , field walls and so on . |
| 5 | Hence the keen interest in this result and the fierceness of the battle which has been fought here over the last few weeks . |
| 6 | His descendants were to live here for the next 120 years . |
| 7 | ‘ She was buried here in the first century BC . ’ |
| 8 | This man was buried here in the fourth century . |
| 9 | This man was buried here in the fourth century . |
| 10 | Casting was practised here from the 13th to perhaps the mid-16th century AD , though terracotta sculpture was practised earlier . |