Example sentences of "[vb past] been [v-ing] there " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hector was behind the door , as if he 'd been hiding there , painfully thin , still unshaven , a stained rag over his eyes . |
| 2 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 3 | He 'd been waiting there for me , I concluded . |
| 4 | I had no idea how long he 'd been standing there . |
| 5 | For a second Donna thought he 'd been standing there looking at her , this man in the leather jacket and trousers which were too short . |
| 6 | And yes , he 'd been working there for several days . |
| 7 | He looked as if he 'd been Lying there on his stomach for quite a while . |
| 8 | She did n't know how long she 'd been lying there . |
| 9 | When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours . |
| 10 | It was a freezing cold day and I 'd been sitting there in nothing but these dungarees that I 'd been working on the roof in . |
| 11 | I 'm sure she 'd been sitting there , but she was hardly wearing anything ! |
| 12 | I felt as if I 'd been sitting there half the night . |
| 13 | And I wondered why there was n't and I 'd been sitting there for ages , twenty five past five is the appointment . |
| 14 | Nor did she mention the fact that she 'd been sitting there for nearly three hours . |
| 15 | Isabel wondered how long he 'd been sitting there — intent , watchful , waiting . |
| 16 | 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 … |
| 17 | Just imagine if he 'd been sitting there with his legs dangling outside . |
| 18 | Corbett had been snooping there and seized a juicy morsel , first visiting his old friend at St Bartholomew 's and then the poisoner in Faltour 's Lane . |
| 19 | It must have felt lonely when a respected customer ( whose name was not exposed even to me ) dropped from under her coat the bag of flour she had been concealing there . |
| 20 | Somebody had been picnicking there do you see , in the warren and left some bottles there . |
| 21 | It had been hanging there since before she joined the ATS but , though old , she knew it suited her . |
| 22 | The English had been fishing there for over a century , and had been settled for over fifty years , so they had a strong position for making the French give up any claims to settle there . |
| 23 | ‘ Because he had been living there . ’ |
| 24 | In the brief walk from No. 22 to his own flat he had pulled from the back of his mind a conviction that had been forming there without much conscious thought on his part , just something he knew . |
| 25 | It was as if he had been waiting there for me all my life . |
| 26 | Something had been waiting there all my life . |
| 27 | And then , as though it had been waiting there to be born , a plan had begun to come to life in her mind . |
| 28 | He had been waiting there since hearing from Bartocci , less than an hour earlier , that the kidnappers had been in touch and that the car would be leaving as soon as it got dark . |
| 29 | They 'd tasted like shit but they 'd sure done the stuff ; everybody else had been whining about the story while Pete had been lying there with his tongue hanging out . |
| 30 | And there was one just next to the door that must have come in while I had been lying there , unable to move . |