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Example sentences of "been there [conj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	. There has n't been one game we 've been there that he has n't or both of them have n't .
2	That 's what I 'd have been doing if I had been there so you 're not so different from me Peter , so you might have , you might be different in other ways John , but I 've got that weakness as well .
3	‘ I would have loved to have been there but I just can not get around now .
4	The late Lorna Bloxam , 11 at the time , is also known to have been there but sadly her detailed memories are not recorded .
5	‘ You must go , ’ he said , as if nobody had ever been there but him .
6	It had been there but he had not seen it .
7	I 'd never been there but there would have been a terrible fuss if I 'd taken off to Roundhay Park or Woodhouse Moor or somewhere .
8	And as I say as I say I do n't ken how long it had been there but that see that likely about the same time as the as the mill was heightened and er the kiln would 've been putting on .
9	I 've never had a contract of employment in the six years that I 've been there but erm less than forty eight hours after all this happened every employee was issued with a contract of employment .
10	A fire brigade spokesman said : ‘ We do n't know how long he had been there but he was shivering and shaking .
11	I think if the Liberal Club was only like First World War it was n't there it has n't always been there but the Conservative Club was there as long as I can remember .
12	that ducks do have eggs it 's possible they could of been there but they were n't .
13	Benstede had been there before Alexander died and Corbett , so Wishart 's spies told him , was not sent by the King but the Chancellor of England , that wily old fox , Robert Burnell .
14	Poachers could have been there before you and creamed off some of the rabbits , or there may have been a more innocent intrusion by a courting couple on the site .
15	There were bulletholes in the ceiling — which might have been there before the ‘ pomps checked in and the queensize bed was a tangle of ugly tie-died sheets and surplus clothing .
16	I ask you , hundreds of miles from bloody anywhere and the Coke reps have been there before you and shat on the landscape .
17	Perhaps the car had not actually been there since Angela Morgan disappeared , but that seemed unlikely .
18	Been there since the house was built , generation after generation — never get rid of them . ’
19	This had obviously been there since manufacture and had caused the blockages I had blamed on sand .
20	In addition to this the men who were passing through the camp after the first year often had a different view of the war from those who had been there since before the fall of France .
21	Over in the corner behind a gigantic desk sat this old bird who looked as though she had been there since Marie Stopes was pre-pubescent .
22	Eventually he owned a greengrocery business which he then mortgaged to buy spoil heaps across the road from the gold mines , which had been there since mining began .
23	‘ I 've been there since I arrived .
24	The bed has been there since Father Collins 's time , in the war .
25	He had been there since ever .
26	He had been there since he left the Pit a year earlier and Tom had spent a week or so with him back in February .
27	I 've been there since it opened .
28	It looked as if no one had been there since she left in the afternoon to go to Nick .
29	It was a single , narrow affair with a wafer-thin mattress that sagged in the middle and was covered by a brown woollen blanket that had probably been there since the hotel was built .
30	Her stepfather , who had been there since he left home , drinking coffee and mineral water and reading the papers , turned his chair slightly , so that she would not be able to see his face , supposing that one adult male back would look much like another to those of Camille 's generation : his wife , he thought , would have recognized him from any angle .