Example sentences of "been there [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They told us they had been there since the outbreak of the war — approximately 34 hours previously . |
| 2 | The sun was setting , making the dogs pink , like the pink wine that had been there on the table . |
| 3 | ‘ How about something really radical on the dangers of sunbathing without blocker ? ’ said Helena , who had just found a mole on her arm which had definitely not been there at the beginning of the summer . |
| 4 | The way in which some of the subsidies work is ludicrous , but had we been there at the beginning , we might have been able to reform it so that it could work to our advantage . |
| 5 | How long have you been there at the nursing home ? |
| 6 | They 'd been there at the wedding , when the wine , that water had been turned into wine . |
| 7 | Looking down I saw they were in a puddle of water that had n't been there at the start and seemed to be oozing out of the ground . |
| 8 | She 'd been there at the time he 'd wanted a woman . |
| 9 | If Deaconess Tilley had n't been there at the time , she might have found an excuse to say no . |
| 10 | Perhaps , she thought it was because Mark had been there at the planning stage — Mark Bristow , the dynamic young advertising executive she had met and fallen in love with when she had been chasing jobs in the heart of Somerset ; Mark who , in spite of being English , had lived long enough in the States to absorb — and give off — some of the typically American blend of enthusiasm and energy . |
| 11 | Probably had I been there at the point of commissioning I would not have chosen that story . |
| 12 | For when he had been there at the end of the war it was very much the preserve of the officer class . |
| 13 | Addressed ‘ Charles Paris ’ , he was sure it had n't been there at the interval . |
| 14 | He was sure it had been there every night since , and Mrs Masters turned out to be equally confident that it had also been there during the day . |
| 15 | There were none of the crowds that had been there during the day and we could really pray . |
| 16 | On Jan. 28 Goulding said that " one of the conditions which has always been there for the deployment of the UN force in Yugoslavia , namely a stable ceasefire , has now been fulfilled " , although there were still violations of the ceasefire , albeit " comparatively minor " ones . |
| 17 | The late arrival by 13 minutes of three of their key players left Peterlee with too much work to do at Consett where they went down in a first division game by 91 points to 58 as they were left wondering what effect Ivor James , Gord Laing and Allen Quarmby might have had had they been there for the start . |
| 18 | The invisible writing , the lineaments of me , which had been there beneath the surface all the time , became manifest . |
| 19 | And the gap which had to some extent been there from the beginning in popular consciousness between ‘ Hitler 's war ’ for racial empire and territorial aggrandisement , and the patriotic defence of the ‘ Fatherland ’ was widening . |
| 20 | He 'd been there from the beginning , that 's we know |
| 21 | I had n't been there from the age of seven without learning what went down in Roundhay . |
| 22 | Wallington flourished under a headmaster who had been there before the War , who grew roses under the class-room windows , and trees around the playing-field . |
| 23 | Only two of the masters had been there before the war . |
| 24 | And , personally , I mean , I know , having been there in the evening in that hall , it 's , it 's not very easy to hire it out , but it 's freezing still . |
| 25 | He had been there in the palace at Tongjiang with her , and still he had not visited her bed . |
| 26 | but erm yes the garden 's alright but then they 've been there in the garden all the winter as well |
| 27 | Going back along the ditch and down beside the house , she tried to convince herself that no one would have heard her love-shriek , but she was already frightened that they had , and when she tiptoed into the scullery and crossed to her straw pallet in the corner , her fear increased tenfold , for she was immediately certain that the blanket had been moved and that someone had been there in the scullery only minutes before . |