Example sentences of "had been there [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been there many times before . |
| 2 | As Rachel reached her flat and let herself in she found herself trying to remember whether David had been there that evening when her mother had sent for her . |
| 3 | Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background . |
| 4 | The extra pairs had been there all the time ; they had simply found nowhere to nest before . |
| 5 | But after that seemingly unpropitious start , Topaz settled into the routine at Yelton as if she had been there all her life . |
| 6 | But the question had been there all the time . |
| 7 | It had been there all the time hidden beneath the forced gaiety , the conversational duelling . |
| 8 | She was certain MacQuillan had not gone to the bar because she had been there all the time until then . |
| 9 | Because the signs had been there all the time if she 'd ever bothered to look further than his surface charm . |
| 10 | She simply tells me something , as if I had been there all the time . |
| 11 | By now we had been there several hours and things were n't looking very optimistic . |
| 12 | We had been there some time . |