Example sentences of "have 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 ? |