Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] be 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 You 'd been there for your holidays as a little boy ?
4 She 'd been there for less than two weeks when her employers discovered she has leukaemia .
5 When she had been there for about six weeks she received the Medical Superintendent 's recommendation for her bravery .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Then at the hotel , he was recognized and before we had been there for five minutes Radio Gibraltar was down to interview him .
9 They 'd been there for more than fifteen years .
10 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 .
11 They had been there for six months , the duration of their marriage .
12 Although he did n't know them , he could have sworn they had been there for the past hour .
13 Diamonds and rare jewels were strewn across the floor as if they had been there for millennia .
14 He 'd been there for some time .
15 His body was cold-I think he 'd been there for hours . ’
16 He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see .
17 She was coldly angry now that he should so calmly assume that what he desired was there for him to take .
18 It had been there for years — I played there myself as a child — but it was situated in the worst possible place .
19 It 's rather like er I had a plant the other day , a marigold , and it had been there for about two weeks and it was a lovely plant , and er I noticed it beginning to droop and I thought , oh well it 's finished now , it 's in a pot .
20 It had been there for about a fortnight , and was in the right age range .
21 Keith Sutton , prosecuting on behalf of Sefton Council 's Public Protection Department , told the court there was sufficient oil in the insect to suggest it had been there for some time .
22 He had been there for an hour and a half .
23 He told me he had been there for a long time dying .
24 He had been there for almost two weeks now , visiting Uncle Lionel .
25 He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards .
26 He had been there for two nights , sinking deeper and deeper , ’ but the troops , obsessed by their own suffering , passed by without so much as casting a glance at the wretched beast .
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