Example sentences of "[verb] [be] there [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two long-serving ministers , Dr Brian Mawhinney , who has been there since 1986 , and Mr Richard Needham , since 1985 , both return to senior posts in mainland ministries . |
| 2 | The 28 year old has been there since for 13 months . |
| 3 | The wood has been there since the days of King John . |
| 4 | Clearly , Petasites has been there for a very long time . |
| 5 | The carpet has been there for three years and is still in good condition — the only signs of wear are the marks left by ‘ wee Lachie ’ , the Stewarts ' three-year-old son . |
| 6 | She has been there for the past 10 years . |
| 7 | It has been there for more than ten years . |
| 8 | ‘ People say the earth must be sour , but it has been there for eighteen years and still grows plants . |
| 9 | ‘ No one has been there for years , I would swear it . ’ |
| 10 | It has been there for two weeks and can not be released because the 3,500 troops promised by the United Nations to secure food convoys and get them moving have not arrived . |
| 11 | And when the hole has been there for a couple of days , they can dig another if necessary . |
| 12 | She has been there for two years . |
| 13 | The social dimension of the Community has been there for a long time . |
| 14 | I mean you do get parishes where the parish priest has been there for the last thirty years or something like that . |
| 15 | The cricket pitch has been there for thirty five years . |
| 16 | That truck has been there at least three days . ’ |
| 17 | The Hercules has been there with the RAF and got on with the job . |
| 18 | So the more you invest in curious methods of murder — your melting ice-dagger , your piano-key trigger — the more you increase the risk that some ingenious author has been there before you . |
| 19 | I got a room in the inn , and despite the windiness of the house and the army of earwigs that people it , I was very snug : a friend who has been there in winter gives amusing particulars regarding the draughts that are vocal as well as felt in this palace of the winds ; he found it necessary to nail up his bed-room windows with many plies of blanket , and thus to allow day and night to glide unnoted past , for all was dark — yet were not the breathings of the winds hushed ! |
| 20 | It has been there in one form or another since Anglo-Saxon times , probably the first building being of wood . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Some powerful hints of what was to come were there to be seen in December 1980 . |
| 23 | I 'd been there for Harry and the arrow had by-passed my heart . |
| 24 | ‘ You 'd been there for your holidays as a little boy ? |
| 25 | He 'd been there for some time . |
| 26 | They demanded that everybody get out of their way so they could launch their boat , while people who 'd been there for the best of the tide were already bringing their craft out . |
| 27 | His body was cold-I think he 'd been there for hours . ’ |
| 28 | Once at the hospital , Liz was taken to the delivery room immediately and Mark went off to find the waiting room , which was full of exhausted partners who 'd been there for hours . |
| 29 | And er then we erm we , we , we went on the wards for about two or three hours a day and we just s sort of did what we were told , took out drinks and , and that sort of thing , and mouthwashes , and after er we 'd been there for about six or eight weeks we were allowed to wash patients , if , if they could n't wash themselves . |
| 30 | He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see . |