Example sentences of "had been here for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 2 | She had been here for twenty minutes , during which time Alida Thorne had backtracked and made difficulties , pretended not to understand . |
| 3 | Now that we had been here for nearly seven weeks , we were beginning to wonder if the final climax would ever take place at all . |
| 4 | Whatever the precise date , she knew she had been here for the best part of a month , confined in this tumbledown shepherd 's dwelling among the mountains . |
| 5 | If no one had been here for years , why did she fancy she could smell cigarette smoke ? |
| 6 | There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time . |
| 7 | If the hon. and learned Member for Burton ( Mr. Lawrence ) had been here for the speech of my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) |