Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] be there for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ca n't begin to say what I think about these people who stole the plaque and the names of the servicemen which had been there for forty-eight years . ’ |
| 2 | She has been there for two years . |
| 3 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 4 | There we dropped off one hunter and his labrador , and collected two others who had been there for several days , totally alone with their guns , their butane gas stove , the deer and the eternal forests surrounding them . |
| 5 | " Any more than I can explain why cholera should have always attacked those of our soldiers who had recently arrived in the Crimea in preference to those who had been there for some time … |
| 6 | No war correspondent , however , could have described the gloom that pervaded the air , or the look of hopelessness ingrained on the faces of anyone who had been there for more than a few days . |
| 7 | A Turk who 's been there for ten days and the club handyman . ’ |
| 8 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 9 | Then at the hotel , he was recognized and before we had been there for five minutes Radio Gibraltar was down to interview him . |
| 10 | We have been there for 20 years . |
| 11 | But they 've been there for twenty years on that spot . |
| 12 | See look at all those cross pieces , they look as they 've been there for some purpose , you know ? |
| 13 | They had been there for six months , the duration of their marriage . |
| 14 | The most difficult part of getting out a galvanised hot water tank is likely to be disconnecting the pipes leading to and from the boiler particularly if they have been there for some time . |
| 15 | It has been there for two weeks and can not be released because the 3,500 troops promised by the United Nations to secure food convoys and get them moving have not arrived . |
| 16 | ‘ People say the earth must be sour , but it has been there for eighteen years and still grows plants . |
| 17 | He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see . |
| 18 | He 'd been there for some time . |
| 19 | Keith Sutton , prosecuting on behalf of Sefton Council 's Public Protection Department , told the court there was sufficient oil in the insect to suggest it had been there for some time . |
| 20 | ‘ He had been there for two nights , sinking deeper and deeper , ’ but the troops , obsessed by their own suffering , passed by without so much as casting a glance at the wretched beast . |
| 21 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |
| 22 | Getting the old cistern out can sometimes be a problem — particularly if it 's been there for some time . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm not saying they won because of that , but … people are used to it , it 's been there for 20 years . ’ |
| 24 | We also have the Castle Court development , complete with massive subsidies from the British government , which was built on the backs of the Smithfield traders , some of whom had been there for fifty years and whose original conception of a shopping complex run by local people was hijacked . |
| 25 | Because then it was that she knew , with blinding clarity , what had been there for some time now . |