Example sentences of "have been there a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Says she does n't know the engine-room well but has been there a couple of times . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | He 'd been there a week when violence flared around his squad of green and frightened youngsters . |
| 4 | He told me proudly how he 'd been there a few times in the past . |
| 5 | I 'd been there a few months when me and a girl called Sue and a girl called Monica started playing silly devils , throwing things out of the hatch . |
| 6 | After I 'd been there a few months I was asked if I wanted to help out in the kitchen , which I did . |
| 7 | And when I came ashore — I 'd been there a week — he gave me ten bob . |
| 8 | before I realized that all you had to do was put your hand through my letter box , reach up and you could take , open the Yale lock because I 'd been there a year I locked myself out and I thought the only thing I can do is try and get in by putting my hand through . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | No it was during the conversation he er he said that I hear that you went to flat and I said yes and he said er well you just missed me , I 'd been there a couple of days before . |
| 11 | One of our friends that we 'd met were there , they 'd been there a couple of weeks |
| 12 | Jakki had been there a week when , in true fairytale fashion , one of the regular disc jockeys upped and left . |
| 13 | After David had been there a couple of weeks , I used to go off doing odd bits of work in London , working as a journalist , although I was n't very keen on that side of my life at the time — there were other things that interested me more . |
| 14 | He had been there a few weeks , suffering most of the time from frostbite after thirty hours in a dinghy in the Atlantic . |
| 15 | Before I had been there a month my eyes began to suffer and I had to start wearing glasses for close work . |
| 16 | This water had been there a very long time , and smelled no better than it should . |
| 17 | When she had been there a couple of years and I asked her how she was , she said , ‘ Pretty mouldy . ’ |
| 18 | Nevertheless on arriving in Sydney I was brought into the Theosophical Centre , and before I had been there a week found myself a very interested enquirer . |
| 19 | By the time I had been there a year , I walked and neighed like the Houys . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Once I had been there a little while I really settled in and really enjoyed my primary school days . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She had been there a few times throughout the week but Busacher frequently forgot her . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 25 | Er you can hire sail boats and er it 's I I 've been there a couple of times . |
| 26 | Probably the only thing is obviously I 've been there a while now so any previous employment and the people that were there are n't there any longer . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ I 've been there a month and was hoping to get a City and Guilds qualification in joinery . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ I 've been there a month and was hoping to get a City and Guilds qualification in joinery . |
| 30 | 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 |