Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] been there [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it is three hundred and twenty thousand pound that they 're paying to this person that should not have been there in the first place , he walked on there , he built places there without planning permission and I think if the council had played their cards right , they could have got him off without paying out this three hundred twenty thousand pound . |
| 2 | Could n't possibly have been there in the old days . |
| 3 | At the very genesis of all feeling and awareness one thought held sway which should not really have been there at all : that to be grown-up , to be a man , meant losing a great part of me . |
| 4 | I know , you would n't have been there in the first place . |
| 5 | Of course , if I 'd really had any sense I would n't have been there in the first place . |
| 6 | But you had to remember the circumstances they were there under — they should never have been there at all . |
| 7 | The simple fact of the matter is that we should never have been there in the first place . |
| 8 | My thoughts the leaf stem should never have been there in the first place it was a waste of money . |