Example sentences of "had been there [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | An example I quote is of two particular members of staff who had been there a long time , and so , when I walked into the staff room , they were in the same seats . |
2 | I I ca n't comment on on comments that you are referencing , however I will say that in Maryland er we displaced an incumbent vendor who had been there a long time , er that vendor was a bit upset as you might imagine with being displaced as a vendor , and in Maryland we had a situation that kind of evolved into the same kind of political row you would expect when a company loses a long time business . |
3 | Once I had been there a little while I really settled in and really enjoyed my primary school days . |
4 | While they had been there the previous year there had been hardly any visitors . |
5 | The same number had been there the previous night as well . |