Example sentences of "be there for [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We 'd be there for hours , then wake up bog-eyed and fit for nothing next morning . |
| 2 | The idea is not just to be there for employees with minor complaints like headaches — the department is mainly concerned with much bigger issues like the general health of employees while on the Park Royal site . |
| 3 | Yes I know , you can get somebody else to do that , be there for months and they do n't turn up at once , that was erm , I did n't realize they had to turn up at once , so I was letting them throw whenever they wanted |
| 4 | If they can really get a hook into this Eismark , a member of the Secretariat and likely to be there for years , it 'll be quite a coup in its very quiet way . |
| 5 | ‘ All the child psychologists say that mummy and daddy have to be there for children to grow up well balanced . ’ |
| 6 | Football will be there for children wo n't it ? |
| 7 | For example the lift phobic may say , ‘ I do n't like lifts — I might get trapped — no one might notice — I 'll be stuck there for ages — I 'll begin to suffocate — I could be there for days — I 'll starve to death . ’ |
| 8 | Mhm cos they 've been there for ages have n't they Mary do n't you think ? |
| 9 | It 's been there for ages and ages and ages . |
| 10 | You have n't been there for ages . |
| 11 | Well I had n't been there for ages ! |
| 12 | How long Joe had been in the marsh she did not know , but it was a very lonely spot , and he could have been there for hours and hours — perhaps even all through the night , thought Cheryl . |
| 13 | His body was cold-I think he 'd been there for hours . ’ |
| 14 | Once at the hospital , Liz was taken to the delivery room immediately and Mark went off to find the waiting room , which was full of exhausted partners who 'd been there for hours . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Diamonds and rare jewels were strewn across the floor as if they had been there for millennia . |
| 17 | They are there ; they have been there for years . |
| 18 | Been there for years . |
| 19 | ‘ No one has been there for years , I would swear it . ’ |
| 20 | It , too , must have been there for years . |
| 21 | Rocks look more natural if you bed them into the gravel slightly , as if they have been there for years . |
| 22 | that have been there for years have n't they ? |
| 23 | No footings were laid — the walls were built directly on the patio paving stones ; they have been there for years and I thought there was little chance of them subsiding . |
| 24 | There 's a sign at the top of the road that 's been there for years , ever since they opened the new road , and it says ‘ Strome Ferry — no ferry ’ , and that just says it all . |
| 25 | It must have been there for years , abandoned to the plunderers , an illicit plaything for the local children , a welcome shelter for the occasional vagrant like the seventy-year-old alcoholic who had stumbled on the body . |
| 26 | ‘ It had been there for years — I played there myself as a child — but it was situated in the worst possible place . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They must have been there for years . ’ |
| 29 | I 'd been sexually abused and all of a sudden the poison that had been there for years started boiling to the surface . |
| 30 | He 's been there for weeks and I could have done the whole thing in a couple of days . |