Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been there [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 'd been there four year , really , wipe shit from her arse every morning |
| 2 | The Manageress there erm I was there and she , I , after I 'd been there eighteen months , she had a heart attack and the girl took up her tea tray , one of the girls took up her , because she was n't on duty till about just quarter to six to do the money . |
| 3 | I had been there nine times previously , but I supposed it was the same as your time as a baby — you could not remember a thing about it . |
| 4 | After I had been there one term , however , my father took one of his almost yearly visits to Africa , this time for a rather longer period of about four months . |
| 5 | I was originally going to do between one and 12 weeks on it , but now I 've been there two and half years , ’ she said . |
| 6 | I 've been there two years now . |
| 7 | I 've been there six months now . |
| 8 | I deal with children all the time erm many of my I 've been there eight years now and so lots of children have passed through my hands who in particular have lots of educational problems and need special help , and I suppose somebody though erm that although the rage now is to have Governors who are working in industry , and that 's perfectly proper , that it would n't be a bad idea to have somebody who is supposed to have some knowledge and background of the way children behave and what children need , so erm although I do have some politics , you know , Bill , I erm largely keep them quiet in the governing body . |
| 9 | I 've been there four , and he was there a year before , so it 's five years . |
| 10 | I have been there three times , but each time they say I must go back to the Home Office and try to get my daughter a visa for longer than a six months ' stay in Britain ; otherwise she can not be admitted to school . |
| 11 | You 've been there quite a whi well yes you 'd been there seven years when you gave up had n't you ? |
| 12 | She 'd been there two days and was running out of money . |
| 13 | You 've been there nine years then . |
| 14 | But after she had been there three weeks , she was asked to make a house call . |
| 15 | Cos I say she 's been there thirty years so she must do alright , everybody knows |
| 16 | you just walk in and like , it was there and I would have said it was old when we arrived , and we 've been there nineteen perhaps twenty years . |
| 17 | Not really , not really , you just , we 've been there seven years now |
| 18 | Yeah , when I started in nineteen thirty one and in those days you got a rise every six months and I got a one and three rise after they 'd been there six months and at the year I was earning seventeen and six . |
| 19 | There were ten birthday cards on the mantelpiece , but they had been there two days and she took them down . |
| 20 | They had been there three weeks . |
| 21 | He has been there 19 days — God knows how he looked when he arrived . |
| 22 | He was really annoyed , he 'd been there twelve years |
| 23 | He said that he 'd been there three weeks . |
| 24 | She did all our garage round it , she 's said it worth it , well , it 's been there twelve months , she would n't put it on anywhere else . |
| 25 | It 's been there five , six days now . |
| 26 | no it 's been there two years |
| 27 | He 's been there five days now . |
| 28 | Well I do n't know , just er , I do n't know really , I do n't want to mind cos he 's been there five years , so if he does get made redundant he 's got a chance of getting a little bit of money , not a lot , but it would help . |
| 29 | And he 's been there twenty nine years . |