Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] there for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jean has been teaching there for 24 years . |
| 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 | He 'd been waiting there for me , I concluded . |
| 4 | And yes , he 'd been working there for several days . |
| 5 | When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours . |
| 6 | And I wondered why there was n't and I 'd been sitting there for ages , twenty five past five is the appointment . |
| 7 | Nor did she mention the fact that she 'd been sitting there for nearly three hours . |
| 8 | As the porter said , the corpses might have been lying there for days , even weeks . |
| 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 | It was as if he had been waiting there for me all my life . |
| 11 | And er he said it had been standing there for quite a while . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Since the embers were cool , Tallis imagined that she had been sitting there for hours . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I 've been hiding there for ages . |
| 16 | You 've been sitting there for an hour watching the fire almost go out . |
| 17 | They 've been sitting there for over a week |
| 18 | ‘ They 've been waiting there for ages , ’ said Gurder . |
| 19 | Although we have been going there for 10 years the excitement of seeing all our friends will never ever die and I hope it is going to stay a good , clean Holiday site for many years . |
| 20 | erm , it 's actually sitting there on the Meridian er Business Park , it 's been sitting there for three years er overgrown with er grass and what have you and it 's there . |
| 21 | It 's been sitting there for about three months . |