Example sentences of "been there " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if it had ever been there . |
| 2 | When it is done , he wrote , it should look as though it had always been there . |
| 3 | Something which had not been there three years ago now existed . |
| 4 | ‘ At least Arthur would have been there , ’ said her husband . |
| 5 | ‘ If you 'd ever been there you 'd know why . ’ |
| 6 | To an extent , this has always been there , but it 's important to raise the issue here because the most unfashionable person to help is often the person who is dying on your own doorstep . |
| 7 | The word had not been there when she left that morning . |
| 8 | ‘ But why , you 've never been there either . ’ |
| 9 | After seeing the picture of Scafell Massif taken in evening sunshine from the summit of Yewbarrow , I could n't help wishing I 'd been there . |
| 10 | Some refugees in the embassy gardens said they had been there for days , but had not boarded the sealed refugee trains travelling through East Germany to Bavaria . |
| 11 | The BBC cameras should have been there , with the high priest Chris Rea and his acolyte Nigel Starmer-Smith in attendance . |
| 12 | Panama 's President Francisco Rodriguez should have been there , too ( it is a Group of Eight meeting , after all ) , but his country is in the doghouse because of the controversial behaviour of his boss , General Manuel Noriega . |
| 13 | ‘ Does that mean other police officers might have been there ? , he was asked . |
| 14 | Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time . |
| 15 | How long she had been there , we could not be sure , for if she sat with head and tail aligned along the wall , she was invisible from below , and only when she turned sideways did she come into view . |
| 16 | Even Scouse 's latrine had disappeared as if it had never been there . |
| 17 | As in Kursk , so in Tambov the potential had been there . |
| 18 | He thought he 'd been there once but had no idea now . |
| 19 | They have always been there . |
| 20 | Looking down I saw they were in a puddle of water that had n't been there at the start and seemed to be oozing out of the ground . |
| 21 | Once I got in well hungover at four in the afternoon when I should have been there at 11 . |
| 22 | The last time I 'd been there I nearly got caught bunking my fare . |
| 23 | They had all been there when Moran read out the telegram . |
| 24 | I have never been there . |
| 25 | She had been there about a week when I learnt of her arrival through a friend and went to visit her . |
| 26 | I have been there three times , but each time they say I must go back to the Home Office and try to get my daughter a visa for longer than a six months ' stay in Britain ; otherwise she can not be admitted to school . |
| 27 | I been there before . |
| 28 | He 's been there for weeks and I could have done the whole thing in a couple of days . |
| 29 | ‘ Just between ourselves , I have been there ! ’ |
| 30 | But Patsy and Tim wanted a few simple cupboards painted white , made to look as if they 'd always been there . |