Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [verb] there for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been sent there for contempt of court by Essex magistrates when she refused to answer questions about her personal finances in a poll tax case . |
| 2 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 3 | She 'd been summoned there for refusing to pay a poll tax surcharge of £14.52 . |
| 4 | He 'd been waiting there for me , I concluded . |
| 5 | And yes , he 'd been working there for several days . |
| 6 | When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours . |
| 7 | And I wondered why there was n't and I 'd been sitting there for ages , twenty five past five is the appointment . |
| 8 | Nor did she mention the fact that she 'd been sitting there for nearly three hours . |
| 9 | The English had been fishing there for over a century , and had been settled for over fifty years , so they had a strong position for making the French give up any claims to settle there . |
| 10 | In Ballymacarrett , there was less unemployment , traditional gender roles were more clearly differentiated , the population was resident in traditional streets of terraced houses , and for the most part it had been established there for generations . |
| 11 | It was as if he had been waiting there for me all my life . |
| 12 | I checked behind the wall ‘ phone to see if any mail had been stuffed there for me but , as usual , there was nothing . |
| 13 | And er he said it had been standing there for quite a while . |
| 14 | Not until she had been sitting there for several minutes did Isabel realise that no sound at all had come from her torn and bleeding lips . |
| 15 | Since the embers were cool , Tallis imagined that she had been sitting there for hours . |
| 16 | Bars that had been put there for their protection when the room had been a nursery for the four girls : Daisy , Ethel , Lily , Amy , the little daughters of Alfred Greenwood , founder of a chain of grocery shops serving the clothing trade of Leeds , in the West Riding of Yorkshire . |
| 17 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
| 18 | An imitation Everest base camp had been pitched there for the benefit of press , potential sponsors and team members in need of some high-altitude practice . |