Example sentences of "have [adv] been there [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Old Mr Fiddle has not been there for some time , Rose , ’ said Dagmar from the door .
2 He just disappeared , as if he 'd never been there at all .
3 She had let her overwhelming desire feed her imagination ; had read something into his words , his looks , his actions , which had not been there at all .
4 Perhaps she had not been there at all , in the street , but a phantom instead had taken her place , looking like her , feeling like her inside too , but not her , for she , Rosa , had been in her bed , dreaming .
5 References in the work of Constantine Porphyrogenitus , written in the tenth century , indicate that they were settled in Dalmatia in his time and had probably been there for two hundred years .
6 It had probably been there for some time !
7 The doctor , who had now been there for some time , and was looking at his watch , had been explaining .
8 I had n't been there for more than a minute when the skipper bellowed : ‘ This is melanoma country , mate .
9 The couple next door said she had n't been there for several days .
10 You bozos do n't seem to realise it but if we had n't been there at that Florence Conference , would not be in the leading position it currently holds with the commission to guarantee further funds and to create a positive role for Britain in Europe with the commission to wuk look at the issues that are gon na come up in 1993 .
11 have n't been there for many years
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