Example sentences of "[pron] had be here for " in BNC.

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1 The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it .
2 She had been here for twenty minutes , during which time Alida Thorne had backtracked and made difficulties , pretended not to understand .
3 Whatever the precise date , she knew she had been here for the best part of a month , confined in this tumbledown shepherd 's dwelling among the mountains .
4 If no one had been here for years , why did she fancy she could smell cigarette smoke ?
5 Now that we had been here for nearly seven weeks , we were beginning to wonder if the final climax would ever take place at all .
6 There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time .
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