Example sentences of "[verb] [be] there a [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He told me proudly how he 'd been there a few times in the past .
2 I 'd been there a few months when me and a girl called Sue and a girl called Monica started playing silly devils , throwing things out of the hatch .
3 After I 'd been there a few months I was asked if I wanted to help out in the kitchen , which I did .
4 She had been there a few times throughout the week but Busacher frequently forgot her .
5 He had been there a few weeks , suffering most of the time from frostbite after thirty hours in a dinghy in the Atlantic .
6 Well no , er I 've been there a few times .
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