Example sentences of "[pron] have [been] there [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been there for Harry and the arrow had by-passed my heart . |
| 2 | And I 'd been there from six in the morning till quarter to nine . |
| 3 | By the beginning of 1942 rapid expansion had taken place , so that by the end of that year there were some 3,293 staff of all grades , of whom 1,566 were service personnel and 1,727 civilian , and by the time that I had been there for a year there were over 5,000 in all . |
| 4 | First of all I thought I 'd tell you who I was I 'm a G P in er in New Harlow , in Bush Fair , and I 've been there for nearly three years now . |
| 5 | Done quite a wee bit and I 've been there at a few of their , quite a few of their meetings and erm a good friend of quite a few of the councils . |
| 6 | Well it does , I mean it 's it 's I mean I 've been there about just over three years , three and a half years . |
| 7 | And I 've been there since Alpha and I every year I 've looked out and watched the form twos . |
| 8 | Going back along the ditch and down beside the house , she tried to convince herself that no one would have heard her love-shriek , but she was already frightened that they had , and when she tiptoed into the scullery and crossed to her straw pallet in the corner , her fear increased tenfold , for she was immediately certain that the blanket had been moved and that someone had been there in the scullery only minutes before . |
| 9 | I have been there with Nurse Davis . |
| 10 | Is she aware that when my hon. Friend the Member for Workington ( Mr. Campbell-Savours ) and I visited Moscow last week and questioned Russian officials about food aid , we found stacked away in a third-floor warehouse what we were told was the whole British contribution of beef to Moscow , which had been there for a month ? |
| 11 | ‘ I ca n't begin to say what I think about these people who stole the plaque and the names of the servicemen which had been there for forty-eight years . ’ |
| 12 | We spent most of that first day walking around the town looking at the historical buildings some of which had been there since the mid-sixteenth century . |
| 13 | The invisible writing , the lineaments of me , which had been there beneath the surface all the time , became manifest . |
| 14 | I bet nobody 's been there at all . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ! |
| 17 | She has been there for the past 10 years . |
| 18 | She has been there for two years . |
| 19 | ‘ You 'd been there for your holidays as a little boy ? |
| 20 | You got half an hour plus ten minutes relief for your refreshments and that would happen at ten in the morning and you 'd been there since seven . |
| 21 | I mean , you were n't even sure she 'd been there at all . ’ |
| 22 | She 'd been there at the time he 'd wanted a woman . |
| 23 | She 'd been there for less than two weeks when her employers discovered she has leukaemia . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Exactly , unless they guarantee human rights er , you see , what 's really happening especially in the Baltic , that is er there , there is an anti Russian feeling you know , and er there is element in in the Baltic Republic who want to er , want to deport the Russian population who 've been there for maybe for the last forty five years . |
| 27 | You 've been there for over a month . ’ |
| 28 | which is when you 've been there for a for genuinely over an hour and a half . |
| 29 | ‘ Back home in Australia , you can play for my university there , Queensland , for ever , so long as you 've been there at some time . |
| 30 | He was too young to remember when it had been a school , though his mother could , she had been there as a pupil . |