Example sentences of "had been there [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But , unfortunately , Neil was not even safely ensconced in the house , as he should have been , so Ewen Mackay was free to resume whatever his business had been there on Wednesday night . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Ven had been there on Monday , of course . |
| 6 | But he had been there with Montaine and he could n't bear to see the place again — not then . |
| 7 | Ken wanted to go to Tangier — ‘ He had been there with Orton and all that jazz and I was n't interested . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It had been there for years — I played there myself as a child — but it was situated in the worst possible place . |
| 9 | Her new life at Usher started appropriately on January 1st One day in the office , and she understood the situation better than some of the staff who had been there for years . |
| 10 | I 'd been sexually abused and all of a sudden the poison that had been there for years started boiling to the surface . |
| 11 | There was no sign that anyone had been there for months . |
| 12 | She had n't known Mark very well , but she had been there for Robyn when he had died , seen the agony that her friend had gone through . |
| 13 | Diamonds and rare jewels were strewn across the floor as if they had been there for millennia . |
| 14 | Some refugees in the embassy gardens said they had been there for days , but had not boarded the sealed refugee trains travelling through East Germany to Bavaria . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |