Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] there [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt as if I 'd been sitting there half the night . |
| 2 | Something had been waiting there all my life . |
| 3 | Barry Moxton had been lurking there all the time , just below the surface of his consciousness , waiting to spring out at him . |
| 4 | She had seen so many of the students set out from her door , awkward and anxious , and after a few weeks it was as if they had been studying there all their lives . |
| 5 | Perhaps , thought , they 're people who have been working there all their lives ? |