Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] there [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And I wondered why there was n't and I 'd been sitting there for ages , twenty five past five is the appointment . |
2 | Here she was , imagining that the last half-hour had been a sort of truce — telling Marc all those things about her life on the stage , all those silly , funny , self-mocking stories of disaster and mayhem that were part of the business , and he 'd been sitting there in judgement all that time , working out how much Peter might or might not have paid her for playing the part of his fiancée … |
3 | As the porter said , the corpses might have been lying there for days , even weeks . |
4 | Michael Codron had been going there as part of the Kenneth Williams set since the time he worked for the Jack Hylton organization . |
5 | Since the embers were cool , Tallis imagined that she had been sitting there for hours . |
6 | I 've been hiding there for ages . |
7 | ‘ They 've been waiting there for ages , ’ said Gurder . |