Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] been there [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd walked into the boathouse and tried to pick up an envelope and the floor had given way beneath him and a piece of beam was missing , and if I had n't been there with him he would certainly have drowned in the dock , impaled on something lurking beneath the surface . |
| 2 | I had n't been there for more than a minute when the skipper bellowed : ‘ This is melanoma country , mate . |
| 3 | Well I had n't been there for ages ! |
| 4 | I had n't been there from the age of seven without learning what went down in Roundhay . |
| 5 | I had n't been there by daylight before and my bibliophile heart had lifted at the sight of those tall glass cabinets , shelf over shelf of finely bound volumes , each of them a door on the possible . |
| 6 | A clergyman who was in Manchester Cathedral when the second device went off said : ‘ I had only been there for a matter of seconds when I heard an almighty crump . |