Example sentences of "have been there [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when the hole has been there for a couple of days , they can dig another if necessary . |
| 2 | They 'd been there at the wedding , when the wine , that water had been turned into wine . |
| 3 | She 'd been there at the time he 'd wanted a woman . |
| 4 | He 'd been there from the beginning , that 's we know |
| 5 | Your chances of coming down to London and finding someone who may have been there over a decade ago are not just slim , they 're non-existent . |
| 6 | They 'd have been there about a couple of weeks . |
| 7 | And , personally , I mean , I know , having been there in the evening in that hall , it 's , it 's not very easy to hire it out , but it 's freezing still . |
| 8 | They told us they had been there since the outbreak of the war — approximately 34 hours previously . |
| 9 | There were none of the crowds that had been there during the day and we could really pray . |
| 10 | The sun was setting , making the dogs pink , like the pink wine that had been there on the table . |
| 11 | For when he had been there at the end of the war it was very much the preserve of the officer class . |
| 12 | Perhaps , she thought it was because Mark had been there at the planning stage — Mark Bristow , the dynamic young advertising executive she had met and fallen in love with when she had been chasing jobs in the heart of Somerset ; Mark who , in spite of being English , had lived long enough in the States to absorb — and give off — some of the typically American blend of enthusiasm and energy . |
| 13 | Sixty-two per cent of those in old people 's homes had been there for a year or more compared with 47 per cent of those in nursing homes , but this difference might have occurred by chance . |
| 14 | By the beginning of 1942 rapid expansion had taken place , so that by the end of that year there were some 3,293 staff of all grades , of whom 1,566 were service personnel and 1,727 civilian , and by the time that I had been there for a year there were over 5,000 in all . |
| 15 | The team , including John Hall from Scottish Nuclear , had been there for a year before I arrived and had done much in identifying the work required . |
| 16 | Is she aware that when my hon. Friend the Member for Workington ( Mr. Campbell-Savours ) and I visited Moscow last week and questioned Russian officials about food aid , we found stacked away in a third-floor warehouse what we were told was the whole British contribution of beef to Moscow , which had been there for a month ? |
| 17 | He had been there for an hour and a half . |
| 18 | He was too young to remember when it had been a school , though his mother could , she had been there as a pupil . |
| 19 | He had been there in the palace at Tongjiang with her , and still he had not visited her bed . |
| 20 | Going back along the ditch and down beside the house , she tried to convince herself that no one would have heard her love-shriek , but she was already frightened that they had , and when she tiptoed into the scullery and crossed to her straw pallet in the corner , her fear increased tenfold , for she was immediately certain that the blanket had been moved and that someone had been there in the scullery only minutes before . |
| 21 | Wallington flourished under a headmaster who had been there before the War , who grew roses under the class-room windows , and trees around the playing-field . |
| 22 | Only two of the masters had been there before the war . |
| 23 | The invisible writing , the lineaments of me , which had been there beneath the surface all the time , became manifest . |
| 24 | but erm yes the garden 's alright but then they 've been there in the garden all the winter as well |
| 25 | Cos this is quite strong stuff I 'm gon na give you because that 's , once that 's been there for a week or two it 's hard to get it shifted . |