Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [be] there [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 2 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 3 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 4 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 5 | You think of the people , I mean , these people have been there for all those years |
| 6 | Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time . |
| 7 | ‘ The pits are so dramatic , and there 's so many of them , that we feel someone would have noticed if the whales had been there in such numbers in previous years . ’ |
| 8 | Those papers have been there for more than a century . |
| 9 | Brooke Alexander , of course , and Josh Baer , Ronald Feldman , Pat Hearn and Feature have been there for some time . |