Example sentences of "been there [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They told us they had been there since the outbreak of the war — approximately 34 hours previously . |
| 2 | We spent most of that first day walking around the town looking at the historical buildings some of which had been there since the mid-sixteenth century . |
| 3 | The wood has been there since the days of King John . |
| 4 | The Hercules has been there with the RAF and got on with the job . |
| 5 | The sun was setting , making the dogs pink , like the pink wine that had been there on the table . |
| 6 | Looking down I saw they were in a puddle of water that had n't been there at the start and seemed to be oozing out of the ground . |
| 7 | Perhaps , she thought it was because Mark had been there at the planning stage — Mark Bristow , the dynamic young advertising executive she had met and fallen in love with when she had been chasing jobs in the heart of Somerset ; Mark who , in spite of being English , had lived long enough in the States to absorb — and give off — some of the typically American blend of enthusiasm and energy . |
| 8 | And though I have not been there at the right season for many years , for all I know they live there still — a small , brown , undemonstrative little butterfly , not immediately noticed by an untrained eye . |
| 9 | Probably had I been there at the point of commissioning I would not have chosen that story . |
| 10 | But he had been there at the right time , he had acted swiftly and effectively and she was alive . |
| 11 | ‘ How about something really radical on the dangers of sunbathing without blocker ? ’ said Helena , who had just found a mole on her arm which had definitely not been there at the beginning of the summer . |
| 12 | Addressed ‘ Charles Paris ’ , he was sure it had n't been there at the interval . |
| 13 | She 'd been there at the time he 'd wanted a woman . |
| 14 | If Deaconess Tilley had n't been there at the time , she might have found an excuse to say no . |
| 15 | The way in which some of the subsidies work is ludicrous , but had we been there at the beginning , we might have been able to reform it so that it could work to our advantage . |
| 16 | How long have you been there at the nursing home ? |
| 17 | For when he had been there at the end of the war it was very much the preserve of the officer class . |
| 18 | They 'd been there at the wedding , when the wine , that water had been turned into wine . |
| 19 | He was sure it had been there every night since , and Mrs Masters turned out to be equally confident that it had also been there during the day . |
| 20 | There were none of the crowds that had been there during the day and we could really pray . |
| 21 | Williams had not been there during the vital moments when the kidnapping had taken place . |
| 22 | She has been there for the past 10 years . |
| 23 | The flesh itself ranges from the blood red of the arriviste joint to the dull browny-purple bloom of those that have been there for the full three weeks . |
| 24 | Although he did n't know them , he could have sworn they had been there for the past hour . |
| 25 | They demanded that everybody get out of their way so they could launch their boat , while people who 'd been there for the best of the tide were already bringing their craft out . |
| 26 | On Jan. 28 Goulding said that " one of the conditions which has always been there for the deployment of the UN force in Yugoslavia , namely a stable ceasefire , has now been fulfilled " , although there were still violations of the ceasefire , albeit " comparatively minor " ones . |
| 27 | I mean you do get parishes where the parish priest has been there for the last thirty years or something like that . |
| 28 | Thus , the squatter lost — and would have lost even had he been there for the twelve years . |
| 29 | The late arrival by 13 minutes of three of their key players left Peterlee with too much work to do at Consett where they went down in a first division game by 91 points to 58 as they were left wondering what effect Ivor James , Gord Laing and Allen Quarmby might have had had they been there for the start . |
| 30 | The residents themselves recognised the move for some of the older , frailer people would be more difficult and those who had been there for the least time had agreed to go , he said . |