Example sentences of "have been there [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got a room in the inn , and despite the windiness of the house and the army of earwigs that people it , I was very snug : a friend who has been there in winter gives amusing particulars regarding the draughts that are vocal as well as felt in this palace of the winds ; he found it necessary to nail up his bed-room windows with many plies of blanket , and thus to allow day and night to glide unnoted past , for all was dark — yet were not the breathings of the winds hushed ! |
| 2 | Peaceful , mellow and noble , in the shade of a great sycamore , it is the sort of house that feels as though it has been there from time immemorial . |
| 3 | It must have been there since breakfast . |
| 4 | ‘ He 'll have been there since lunchtime like as not . |
| 5 | ‘ Kiwis are nocturnal birds — so that means you must have been there at night . |
| 6 | Dortmund 's less than a hundred miles , mostly by Autobahn , so you could have been there by midnight . |
| 7 | He had been there since lunchtime , and it had been while she 'd watched him that she had come to the decision that she must go . |
| 8 | The shop was often at its busiest on a Saturday , when the farmers came in , or the men who had a half day themselves were marched in by wives to have themselves fitted out by Mr Hogan , or Mike the old assistant , the tailor who had been there since time immemorial . |
| 9 | She had been there on sufferance for so long and yet she had never been quite brave enough to break free , to launch out by herself . |
| 10 | Whether he had been there by accident or whether he had spotted me arriving and slunk into position I shall never know , but from his point of view the result must have been eminently satisfactory because it was certainly the worst fright I have ever had . |
| 11 | You know his father had started the company and the men , the older men in the quarry had been there from day one with him , you know from when they were producing next to nothing to being quite a profitable concern , and he realized the value of these men , and that you could n't just say , oh because they disagree with you just well , down the road pal . |
| 12 | And I 've been there since Alpha and I every year I 've looked out and watched the form twos . |
| 13 | " Now , " he continued , not looking at them , " the two men standing on either side of the gate in front of us have been there since morning . |
| 14 | I have been there with Nurse Davis . |