Example sentences of "[noun] have been there for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean you do get parishes where the parish priest has been there for the last thirty years or something like that . |
| 2 | Clearly , Petasites has been there for a very long time . |
| 3 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 4 | Sixty-two per cent of those in old people 's homes had been there for a year or more compared with 47 per cent of those in nursing homes , but this difference might have occurred by chance . |
| 5 | Eve had been there for as long as she remembered to help her fight her battles . |
| 6 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 7 | " Signs of a coming plateau have been there for a long time and are now getting better and better " , according to independent consultant Richard Kimberlin . |
| 8 | The social dimension of the Community has been there for a long time . |
| 9 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 10 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 11 | You think of the people , I mean , these people have been there for all those years |
| 12 | And when the hole has been there for a couple of days , they can dig another if necessary . |
| 13 | Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time . |
| 14 | Like Doreen had always been putting the food on the table , like the old dog Oswald had been there for as long as they could recall . |
| 15 | You know , I mean it it 's bloody outrageous that the police can dictate you know , something F A Cup 's been there for |
| 16 | Moreover , there is a coincidence between centres of dispersal and enclaves of diversity among Amazonian languages and the plant and animal ‘ refugia ’ , but humans have been there for perhaps only 6000 years . |
| 17 | She said her husband had made regular visits to the field , but a vet believed some of the dead sheep had been there for at least two weeks . |
| 18 | Those papers have been there for more than a century . |
| 19 | Brooke Alexander , of course , and Josh Baer , Ronald Feldman , Pat Hearn and Feature have been there for some time . |
| 20 | The Jordanians are doing a magnificent job , keeping , keeping the show going erm people in those camps in many cases have been there for 4,5 or 7 days . |
| 21 | The cricket pitch has been there for thirty five years . |
| 22 | The carpet has been there for three years and is still in good condition — the only signs of wear are the marks left by ‘ wee Lachie ’ , the Stewarts ' three-year-old son . |
| 23 | If the groom had been there for over two years , he must have had plenty of opportunity for revenge on Tamar , if that had been his motive . |
| 24 | But the man whom he promised to come back and visit had been there for twenty years , the oldest inhabitant , as the turnkey would tell newcomers ; he could play the piano and speak fluent French and Italian . |
| 25 | A Whalby and his son had been there for as long as anyone could remember and Dadda used sometimes to boast on his good days that Alfred Osborn Tace had himself been a customer and that Whalbys had re-covered the seats of the Hepplewhite chairs at Chesney Hall . |