Example sentences of "been [verb] there for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tower was demolished by lightning in 1821 and since the present Abbey clock tower was erected on the site in 1822 the papingo has been placed there for every contest . |
| 2 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
| 3 | And when she 's been confined there for days you sometimes have n't bothered with a towel . |
| 4 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 5 | He 'd been waiting there for me , I concluded . |
| 6 | It was as if he had been waiting there for me all my life . |
| 7 | ‘ They 've been waiting there for ages , ’ said Gurder . |
| 8 | Had he been waiting there for her to return ? |
| 9 | As the porter said , the corpses might have been lying there for days , even weeks . |
| 10 | When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours . |
| 11 | I checked behind the wall ‘ phone to see if any mail had been stuffed there for me but , as usual , there was nothing . |
| 12 | Christopher had obviously been going there for some years . |
| 13 | Although we have been going there for 10 years the excitement of seeing all our friends will never ever die and I hope it is going to stay a good , clean Holiday site for many years . |
| 14 | Jean has been teaching there for 24 years . |
| 15 | She 'd been summoned there for refusing to pay a poll tax surcharge of £14.52 . |
| 16 | I 've been hiding there for ages . |
| 17 | The English had been fishing there for over a century , and had been settled for over fifty years , so they had a strong position for making the French give up any claims to settle there . |
| 18 | An imitation Everest base camp had been pitched there for the benefit of press , potential sponsors and team members in need of some high-altitude practice . |
| 19 | Bars that had been put there for their protection when the room had been a nursery for the four girls : Daisy , Ethel , Lily , Amy , the little daughters of Alfred Greenwood , founder of a chain of grocery shops serving the clothing trade of Leeds , in the West Riding of Yorkshire . |
| 20 | For him the Dutch Texel is the original Texel ; it comes from the island of Texel and has been bred there for many generations . |
| 21 | And I wondered why there was n't and I 'd been sitting there for ages , twenty five past five is the appointment . |
| 22 | Nor did she mention the fact that she 'd been sitting there for nearly three hours . |
| 23 | Not until she had been sitting there for several minutes did Isabel realise that no sound at all had come from her torn and bleeding lips . |
| 24 | You 've been sitting there for an hour watching the fire almost go out . |
| 25 | Since the embers were cool , Tallis imagined that she had been sitting there for hours . |
| 26 | erm , it 's actually sitting there on the Meridian er Business Park , it 's been sitting there for three years er overgrown with er grass and what have you and it 's there . |
| 27 | It 's been sitting there for about three months . |
| 28 | They 've been sitting there for over a week |
| 29 | And er he said it had been standing there for quite a while . |
| 30 | How long you been standing there for ? |