Example sentences of "[verb] been here [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Parts of the old Norman church still remain , ’ Esme explains , ‘ so would have been here in Cadfael 's day The church features in Sanctuary Sparrow and again in Eye Witness , where the blind old Welshman , Rhodri Fychan , begs by the west door . |
| 32 | Harry could already have been here in the porch . |
| 33 | He has taught in schools and universities in Ireland and in France , and is now Reader in French in this university , having been here since nineteen sixty six . |
| 34 | What w what was it like when you you first w w went over there , I mean having been here in in and then all of sudden finding yourself in France ? |
| 35 | ‘ And you 're fingering Billy to have been here on Sunday on some sort of animal liberation commando raid ? ’ |
| 36 | I seem to have been here for ages . ’ |
| 37 | Jean , surely , had been here at the time of the murder . |
| 38 | There were so many more than when she had been here with Morthen . |
| 39 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 40 | She had been here for twenty minutes , during which time Alida Thorne had backtracked and made difficulties , pretended not to understand . |
| 41 | Now that we had been here for nearly seven weeks , we were beginning to wonder if the final climax would ever take place at all . |
| 42 | Whatever the precise date , she knew she had been here for the best part of a month , confined in this tumbledown shepherd 's dwelling among the mountains . |
| 43 | If no one had been here for years , why did she fancy she could smell cigarette smoke ? |
| 44 | There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time . |
| 45 | If the hon. and learned Member for Burton ( Mr. Lawrence ) had been here for the speech of my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) |
| 46 | Someone else had been here before him , tearing open the bags of perishables in search of anything worthy of rescue . |
| 47 | No er I th I thought Mr had been here before now , but he 's a very busy man you know , he 'll be coming . |
| 48 | Cassie shivered as she contemplated the knowledge that she had been here in this kitchen once before … or as near as made no difference . |
| 49 | When Lorton had been here in the summer , the car park was nearly full . |
| 50 | I 've been here for some time . |
| 51 | I 've been here for about a week now . ’ |
| 52 | I 've been here for years and this is the first conversation I 've had with a human for simply ages . |
| 53 | God Almighty , Nan , I 've been here for the past two hours without knowing hair nor hide of you . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ But we 've been here for thousands of years ! |
| 55 | She said , ‘ I 've been here for three weeks , I have n't seen one movie star until now , ’ and she came over and got my autograph . |
| 56 | We 've been here for six months . |
| 57 | Well , Jim , I 've been here for three years , and no real food from that day to this . |
| 58 | Although I 've been here for a long time , I 've got my house , got my family here , I 've got comfortable living , although not er luxurious but er normal standard , better standard than I could have in India . |
| 59 | Masklin said we 've been here for thousands of years . |
| 60 | I 've been here for nearly a year now . ’ |