Example sentences of "been [verb] there [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cloth could have been placed there half an hour or so later . ’ |
| 2 | Barry Moxton had been lurking there all the time , just below the surface of his consciousness , waiting to spring out at him . |
| 3 | He 's been sat there all day like a stuffed dummy , then he suddenly comes to life , grabs the dinner and runs off with it trailing between his legs , tripping and stumbling over it in his anxiety to have it all to himself . |
| 4 | I 've been sat there all evening nobody 's eaten it so I thought I might as well get on and eat it |
| 5 | The Luna Café on Soviet Boulevard faces the gardens and the old Liberation monument that had been built there several régimes back and — so it is said — was something of a milestone in municipal graft . |
| 6 | Many people say that near Frankenhausen in Thuringia is a mountain in which Frederick Barbarossa may be found … he has been seen there many times . |
| 7 | Something had been waiting there all my life . |
| 8 | She had seen so many of the students set out from her door , awkward and anxious , and after a few weeks it was as if they had been studying there all their lives . |
| 9 | I felt as if I 'd been sitting there half the night . |
| 10 | The flat , known in 1978 as a Red Brigades hideout , had been extensively searched at the time by all the security services , and it was suggested that the letters might have been planted there more recently to embarrass the government , particularly Andreotti ( now Prime Minister again ) and Cossiga ( Interior Minister in 1978 ) , who had held out against negotiating with the Red Brigades . |
| 11 | The , the idea have been planted there any way . |
| 12 | Perhaps , thought , they 're people who have been working there all their lives ? |