Example sentences of "have been there [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And your sister 's ten years older than you so they must 've been there ten years plus , must n't they ? |
| 2 | you , you must 've been there ten years plus . |
| 3 | They went to : Doreen Bethwaite of High Road , Kells , who works in the preparation department and has been there 45 years . |
| 4 | He has been there 19 days — God knows how he looked when he arrived . |
| 5 | He was really annoyed , he 'd been there twelve years |
| 6 | She 'd been there two days and was running out of money . |
| 7 | Yeah , when I started in nineteen thirty one and in those days you got a rise every six months and I got a one and three rise after they 'd been there six months and at the year I was earning seventeen and six . |
| 8 | The Manageress there erm I was there and she , I , after I 'd been there eighteen months , she had a heart attack and the girl took up her tea tray , one of the girls took up her , because she was n't on duty till about just quarter to six to do the money . |
| 9 | You 've been there quite a whi well yes you 'd been there seven years when you gave up had n't you ? |
| 10 | He said that he 'd been there three weeks . |
| 11 | ‘ I should like that very much , but you must have been there many times before . ’ |
| 12 | It 's just a little shop , she 's been there years , she must have been there thirty years at least . |
| 13 | The money should have been there four-and-a-half years ago when we needed it most . |
| 14 | But they had a new headmaster oh he 's just retired , he 's been there been there since Lynn was there when since she was since the er she 's twice that age so I mean he must have been there eighteen years but when he went there he 's er totally the school from the word go |
| 15 | He had been there many times before . |
| 16 | I had been there nine times previously , but I supposed it was the same as your time as a baby — you could not remember a thing about it . |
| 17 | When one prisoner who had been there six months found his wife was about to have a baby , he was taken by the turnkey to the room of a shabby man dressed in a torn and darned rough-weather sea jacket who had once been a surgeon on a passenger ship but was now ‘ a ghastly medical scarecrow ’ , Dr Haggage . |
| 18 | The Manager of Managers had been there thirty years . |
| 19 | There were ten birthday cards on the mantelpiece , but they had been there two days and she took them down . |
| 20 | By now we had been there several hours and things were n't looking very optimistic . |
| 21 | They had been there three weeks . |
| 22 | But after she had been there three weeks , she was asked to make a house call . |
| 23 | No fewer than 75 of the 99 households recorded in 1861 had been there ten years earlier . |
| 24 | When Juliet asked about staff who had been there twenty years ago , she went into a long rigmarole about the different jobs she 'd had , and her family problems , then digressed to the present staff . |
| 25 | I deal with children all the time erm many of my I 've been there eight years now and so lots of children have passed through my hands who in particular have lots of educational problems and need special help , and I suppose somebody though erm that although the rage now is to have Governors who are working in industry , and that 's perfectly proper , that it would n't be a bad idea to have somebody who is supposed to have some knowledge and background of the way children behave and what children need , so erm although I do have some politics , you know , Bill , I erm largely keep them quiet in the governing body . |
| 26 | If I was on the streets of Ireland now , and I 've been there many occasions and someone said to me , look at that Welsh get there , I would just have to take it . |
| 27 | I 've been there six months now . |
| 28 | I 've been there two years now . |
| 29 | You 've been there nine years then . |
| 30 | Not really , not really , you just , we 've been there seven years now |