Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been there for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been there for Harry and the arrow had by-passed my heart . |
| 2 | She had n't known Mark very well , but she had been there for Robyn when he had died , seen the agony that her friend had gone through . |
| 3 | She 's been there for months — it 's a long-term project … |
| 4 | Mhm cos they 've been there for ages have n't they Mary do n't you think ? |
| 5 | Some refugees in the embassy gardens said they had been there for days , but had not boarded the sealed refugee trains travelling through East Germany to Bavaria . |
| 6 | Diamonds and rare jewels were strewn across the floor as if they had been there for millennia . |
| 7 | They are there ; they have been there for years . |
| 8 | Rocks look more natural if you bed them into the gravel slightly , as if they have been there for years . |
| 9 | No footings were laid — the walls were built directly on the patio paving stones ; they have been there for years and I thought there was little chance of them subsiding . |
| 10 | His body was cold-I think he 'd been there for hours . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It had been there for years — I played there myself as a child — but it was situated in the worst possible place . |
| 12 | It 's been there for ages and ages and ages . |
| 13 | We broke that , or that was broke er , but we 'll blame the carrier now and look at it , then our security guy goes out and they know it 's been sitting around someone 's you know , it 's been there for months ! |
| 14 | He 's been there for weeks and I could have done the whole thing in a couple of days . |