Example sentences of "have been there for " in BNC.
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| 31 | Yet the county council admits the waste could have been there for anything up to 20 years . |
| 32 | It 's their intention to leave the boat station there , but as a boat hiring station only , and to let rent that to somebody , not to have boat building enterprises , not to have a car park , not to have a chandlery and so on which was put there by the person whose who used to own it , and we will recoup all of that money from renting that boat station so it can be run as a boat hiring station again , and from three or four of the moorings that are will have been there for a long time , with proper permission . |
| 33 | Standing on the draining board was an old , chipped saucer containing a slab of soap which was yellow as cheese and rock hard , its surface covered in deep cracks and giving the appearance of having been there for ever . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time . |
| 36 | Sixty-two per cent of those in old people 's homes had been there for a year or more compared with 47 per cent of those in nursing homes , but this difference might have occurred by chance . |
| 37 | By the beginning of 1942 rapid expansion had taken place , so that by the end of that year there were some 3,293 staff of all grades , of whom 1,566 were service personnel and 1,727 civilian , and by the time that I had been there for a year there were over 5,000 in all . |
| 38 | He had been there for an hour and a half . |
| 39 | When she had been there for about six weeks she received the Medical Superintendent 's recommendation for her bravery . |
| 40 | But the man whom he promised to come back and visit had been there for twenty years , the oldest inhabitant , as the turnkey would tell newcomers ; he could play the piano and speak fluent French and Italian . |
| 41 | If the groom had been there for over two years , he must have had plenty of opportunity for revenge on Tamar , if that had been his motive . |
| 42 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |
| 43 | There we dropped off one hunter and his labrador , and collected two others who had been there for several days , totally alone with their guns , their butane gas stove , the deer and the eternal forests surrounding them . |
| 44 | Eve had been there for as long as she remembered to help her fight her battles . |
| 45 | Like Doreen had always been putting the food on the table , like the old dog Oswald had been there for as long as they could recall . |
| 46 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 47 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 48 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 49 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 50 | They had been there for six months , the duration of their marriage . |
| 51 | Although he did n't know them , he could have sworn they had been there for the past hour . |
| 52 | We also have the Castle Court development , complete with massive subsidies from the British government , which was built on the backs of the Smithfield traders , some of whom had been there for fifty years and whose original conception of a shopping complex run by local people was hijacked . |
| 53 | " Any more than I can explain why cholera should have always attacked those of our soldiers who had recently arrived in the Crimea in preference to those who had been there for some time … |
| 54 | He had been there for almost two weeks now , visiting Uncle Lionel . |
| 55 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 56 | A Whalby and his son had been there for as long as anyone could remember and Dadda used sometimes to boast on his good days that Alfred Osborn Tace had himself been a customer and that Whalbys had re-covered the seats of the Hepplewhite chairs at Chesney Hall . |
| 57 | And sad things like children falling into fires and because in the mud huts you have the fire in the centre of the hut and it 's quite easy for the children to fall in and there was one little boy there who had been there for over a year and they kept trying to erm heal up all his skin wounds . |
| 58 | ‘ It had been there for years — I played there myself as a child — but it was situated in the worst possible place . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | The team , including John Hall from Scottish Nuclear , had been there for a year before I arrived and had done much in identifying the work required . |