Example sentences of "been there [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Well he 's been there a long while .
2 ‘ Even as a new MP , she has got a much better grounding in the way that the Treasury and Number 10 work than most MPs who 've been there a long time . ’
3 The eaves , most of which are round the Mull of Oa and the northeast corner of the island , have been there a long time but are almost unexplored and very little s known about them , There is evidence that those at Port a Chotain , near Bholsa , had been occupied in the 17th or early 18th century .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 And wheeling them to the ship you know , then after you 'd been there a long time , well my father was a down below and I went to his shop then you see .
7 The other people that have been there a long time know it all and what they , what you say can you help me .
8 It shows how well we are conducting the service , in what is an old bedding factory , after all , and if you 've been to Winchester lately , you will have seen a six million pound record office , with with modern architecture in a prominent position in Winchester , er , which I 'm sure they 're conducting a service , but I 'll bet you that pound for pound we 're giving a far better service in Wiltshire , with our dedicated staff , who 've been there a long time .
9 Erm , er I 'll I 'll close it at two , but perhaps I could ask the the applicants erm , I mean I appreciate that obviously erm it er it economy in in in obviously in what you 're doing , but I think it it it would be fairly obviously to , I mean it 's been stated that that that that residents nearby would prefer either two bungalows or a house and a bungalow , and I think er that certainly erm new developments adjacent to where you are proposing these are in fact all bungalows , er with the exception of the mill , which of course has been there a long time , er all those on that side of the road , both those two built and those two proposed are a bungalow or a semi bungalow , er and so erm you can see that obviously it is that the height of these buildings , it is erm causing the offence , largely , erm I I think , I mean obviously you will want to main you know , optimize your er development , but whether er a scheme with two bungalows that they would n't be four bedroomed bungalows , because there would n't be room for two of the four two four bedroomed bungalows , erm
10 Well it 's been there a long time .
11 You always find wherever you are that the people who 've been there a long time get sort of erm a bit uppity , they think that they 're
12 Good god that 's been there a long time .
13 not been there a long time
14 Once I had been there a little while I really settled in and really enjoyed my primary school days .
15 when he 's been there a little while perhaps he can come with all the authority of a Euro MP and tell us the answer to his own question er , the honourable member for Ashfield er referred back to the positioning of the European parliament er where it should meet , there are three sites .
16 While they had been there the previous year there had been hardly any visitors .
17 The same number had been there the previous night as well .
18 She almost asked whether he had not been there the previous Friday but stopped , unsure whether he had forgotten or was deliberately misleading her .
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