Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been there for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been there for Harry and the arrow had by-passed my heart . |
| 2 | By the beginning of 1942 rapid expansion had taken place , so that by the end of that year there were some 3,293 staff of all grades , of whom 1,566 were service personnel and 1,727 civilian , and by the time that I had been there for a year there were over 5,000 in all . |
| 3 | First of all I thought I 'd tell you who I was I 'm a G P in er in New Harlow , in Bush Fair , and I 've been there for nearly three years now . |
| 4 | She has been there for the past 10 years . |
| 5 | She has been there for two years . |
| 6 | ‘ You 'd been there for your holidays as a little boy ? |
| 7 | She 'd been there for less than two weeks when her employers discovered she has leukaemia . |
| 8 | You 've been there for over a month . ’ |
| 9 | which is when you 've been there for a for genuinely over an hour and a half . |
| 10 | When she had been there for about six weeks she received the Medical Superintendent 's recommendation for her bravery . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She 's been there for months — it 's a long-term project … |
| 13 | She 's been there for — oh , it must be twenty years . |
| 14 | She 's been there for the last month . |
| 15 | And er then we erm we , we , we went on the wards for about two or three hours a day and we just s sort of did what we were told , took out drinks and , and that sort of thing , and mouthwashes , and after er we 'd been there for about six or eight weeks we were allowed to wash patients , if , if they could n't wash themselves . |
| 16 | Then at the hotel , he was recognized and before we had been there for five minutes Radio Gibraltar was down to interview him . |
| 17 | We have been there for 20 years . |
| 18 | They 'd been there for more than fifteen years . |
| 19 | Mhm cos they 've been there for ages have n't they Mary do n't you think ? |
| 20 | But they 've been there for twenty years on that spot . |
| 21 | See look at all those cross pieces , they look as they 've been there for some purpose , you know ? |
| 22 | I mean these have n't just been put here , they 've been there for a long time ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They had been there for six months , the duration of their marriage . |
| 25 | Although he did n't know them , he could have sworn they had been there for the past hour . |
| 26 | Diamonds and rare jewels were strewn across the floor as if they had been there for millennia . |
| 27 | They are there ; they have been there for years . |
| 28 | Rocks look more natural if you bed them into the gravel slightly , as if they have been there for years . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The most difficult part of getting out a galvanised hot water tank is likely to be disconnecting the pipes leading to and from the boiler particularly if they have been there for some time . |