Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] be [v-ing] there for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 2 | And I wondered why there was n't and I 'd been sitting there for ages , twenty five past five is the appointment . |
| 3 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
| 4 | Nor did she mention the fact that she 'd been sitting there for nearly three hours . |
| 5 | When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours . |
| 6 | Not until she had been sitting there for several minutes did Isabel realise that no sound at all had come from her torn and bleeding lips . |
| 7 | Since the embers were cool , Tallis imagined that she had been sitting there for hours . |
| 8 | He 'd been waiting there for me , I concluded . |
| 9 | And yes , he 'd been working there for several days . |
| 10 | And er he said it had been standing there for quite a while . |
| 11 | It was as if he had been waiting there for me all my life . |