Example sentences of "have been there at " in BNC.
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| 1 | That truck has been there at least three days . ’ |
| 2 | I mean , you were n't even sure she 'd been there at all . ’ |
| 3 | She 'd been there at the time he 'd wanted a woman . |
| 4 | They 'd been there at the wedding , when the wine , that water had been turned into wine . |
| 5 | Once I got in well hungover at four in the afternoon when I should have been there at 11 . |
| 6 | Pumpido had to make two saves while neither of the Italians need have been there at all . |
| 7 | At the very genesis of all feeling and awareness one thought held sway which should not really have been there at all : that to be grown-up , to be a man , meant losing a great part of me . |
| 8 | The first thing that strikes me is that my aunt — an almost complete stranger as far as I was concerned — should have been there at all , within the family circle where no friend or neighbour was allowed , and thus in a privileged position to make personal remarks of the type which would not have been tolerated from any other quarter . |
| 9 | But you had to remember the circumstances they were there under — they should never have been there at all . |
| 10 | ‘ Kiwis are nocturnal birds — so that means you must have been there at night . |
| 11 | This was like quarter to twelve , he should have been there at eleven o'clock . |
| 12 | He 's supposed to have been there at half past nine ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He had been there at least a week , a stain of blood spreading out from his face across the bottom mattress , his shattered body preserved by the freezing February weather . |
| 15 | But he had been there at the right time , he had acted swiftly and effectively and she was alive . |
| 16 | For when he had been there at the end of the war it was very much the preserve of the officer class . |
| 17 | ‘ Back home in Australia , you can play for my university there , Queensland , for ever , so long as you 've been there at some time . |
| 18 | Done quite a wee bit and I 've been there at a few of their , quite a few of their meetings and erm a good friend of quite a few of the councils . |
| 19 | I bet nobody 's been there at all . |