Example sentences of "been here " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Chinese and Western cuisines have very different styles , but since I 've been here , I 've realised that once chefs have the chance to exchange views and work together , it 's very easy to adapt to a new style of cooking . |
| 2 | She 's been here before . |
| 3 | She 's only been here two weekends , and none of us had worked for her in the past … |
| 4 | Yet this is twice they 've been here — first last Spring , and now for the New Year party . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Mind you , it 's the first time they 've been here , and if I 'm any judge it 'll be the last . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , she 's been here since the beginning of the year — she came over to start a new life after she 'd had problems back home . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been here before so I know a little bit . |
| 8 | A baby had been here , this close … |
| 9 | As long as she had money , she could pretend she had always been here , but the prospect of destitution tested her false history in a way which made her feel it was n't her fault . |
| 10 | Raskolnikov has been here three years . |
| 11 | We walked past a tanker where a huge man named Andy Matthews was pumping vinyl acetate into a 10,000-gallon vat , wreathed in its sweet , sickly smell : ‘ I 've been here two years , ’ he said . |
| 12 | A PAIR of tramps in the cellar of an abandoned hotel lengthily airing their psychological underwear until evicted by a ( superficially ) heartless boilerman : we seem to have been here before . |
| 13 | WE HAVE been here before . |
| 14 | The quarry has been here 200 years and is part of the landscape , rather than a blot on it . ’ |
| 15 | Despite having dispensed with sundry items deemed essential to sustain European stomachs on their World Cup visit in 1987 — doctor , diet sheets , microwave oven and Tesco-sponsored tuck-boxes all left them flushed , as it were , with lack of success — England have been here almost a week , practising every day in sauna-bath temperatures for their opening match against Sri Lanka on Sunday . |
| 16 | Has anyone ever spoken to you like this since you 've been here ? |
| 17 | ‘ Have you been here long ? ’ |
| 18 | Jean , surely , had been here at the time of the murder . |
| 19 | After all I had never been here before , there was no means of knowing . |
| 20 | The young lady doctor had said ten minutes , but they must have been here twenty . |
| 21 | I was supposed to be interested because the chap had sometimes been here doing electrical repairs . |
| 22 | The man had been here and had gone . |
| 23 | I think I been here with Marie . |
| 24 | I ca n't remember if I been here before or not — streets look all different at night from how they are in the day . |
| 25 | It 's like I never been here before . |
| 26 | I think I been here before , cos there 's the telly shop from last night . |
| 27 | We have been here five months and he has one month left to complete his sixty . |
| 28 | It was said that the poet Shelley had been here to sail paper boats . |
| 29 | A group of East German workers still in their blue overalls in West Berlin 's equivalent of Oxford Street , the Wilmersdorferstrasse , bought doughnuts and Western newspapers ‘ to prove we 've been here ’ . |
| 30 | He do n't know nothing — he 's only been here 10 years . ’ |