Example sentences of "have been there in " in BNC.

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1 I got a room in the inn , and despite the windiness of the house and the army of earwigs that people it , I was very snug : a friend who has been there in winter gives amusing particulars regarding the draughts that are vocal as well as felt in this palace of the winds ; he found it necessary to nail up his bed-room windows with many plies of blanket , and thus to allow day and night to glide unnoted past , for all was dark — yet were not the breathings of the winds hushed !
2 It has been there in one form or another since Anglo-Saxon times , probably the first building being of wood .
3 The simple fact of the matter is that we should never have been there in the first place .
4 I know , you would n't have been there in the first place .
5 I do n't know if it would have been there in Flaubert 's day .
6 Most may have been there in the pre-Norman period , although whether as fully developed villages or not will be discussed below .
7 Aye you 'd have been there in thirty nine .
8 My thoughts the leaf stem should never have been there in the first place it was a waste of money .
9 Of course , if I 'd really had any sense I would n't have been there in the first place .
10 Could n't possibly have been there in the old days .
11 Well it is three hundred and twenty thousand pound that they 're paying to this person that should not have been there in the first place , he walked on there , he built places there without planning permission and I think if the council had played their cards right , they could have got him off without paying out this three hundred twenty thousand pound .
12 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 .
13 The man behind Shoom — a club that is now so legendary that if all the people who claim to have been there in its formative months really had attended , it would have been held in Wembley Stadium not in a sweaty south-east London basement — he resolutely refused to cash in on the boom that became known as acid .
14 And , most of all , Trent would like to have known why the photograph he had taken from Don Roberto 's house had been there in the first place .
15 But it was only as a last resort in 1120 that the community committed itself to , and based its case upon , the expedient of introducing into existing documents the necessary phrases , which — if they had been there in the days of Lanfranc or Anselm — would have given their case a firm basis in papal documents .
16 ‘ The pits are so dramatic , and there 's so many of them , that we feel someone would have noticed if the whales had been there in such numbers in previous years . ’
17 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 .
18 He had been there in the palace at Tongjiang with her , and still he had not visited her bed .
19 Isabel 's personal integrity had been there in her clear gaze all the time , if he 'd been thinking with his head instead of with his emotions .
20 As in Wigston , few of the families that put down roots in the parish of Myddle during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries had been there in earlier times ; the turnover of names between the 1370s poll tax returns and the subsidies levied in the reign of Henry VIII was equally remarkable in both parishes .
21 Ibrahim rather doubted it had been there in the first place . ’
22 but erm yes the garden 's alright but then they 've been there in the garden all the winter as well
23 Mind you they have done a bit more to it since Wiggie 's been there in as much as she 's had a big curtain put across
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