Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] been there [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 'd been there four year , really , wipe shit from her arse every morning |
| 2 | Cos I 'd been there that morning |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She simply tells me something , as if I had been there all the time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This time next week it 'll be as though you 'd been there all your life . |
| 8 | What can you mind what was the first sort of action on Hoy that impressed you cos Well you 'd been there all your life you would have really seen the whole process happening . |
| 9 | You 've been there quite a whi well yes you 'd been there seven years when you gave up had n't you ? |
| 10 | She 'd been there two days and was running out of money . |
| 11 | The first thing , he decided , was to check out Riverstown in case she had been there first . |
| 12 | But after that seemingly unpropitious start , Topaz settled into the routine at Yelton as if she had been there all her life . |
| 13 | She was certain MacQuillan had not gone to the bar because she had been there all the time until then . |
| 14 | But after she had been there three weeks , she was asked to make a house call . |
| 15 | We had been there some time . |
| 16 | By now we had been there several hours and things were n't looking very optimistic . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There were ten birthday cards on the mantelpiece , but they had been there two days and she took them down . |
| 19 | They had been there three weeks . |
| 20 | He 'd been there all night sleeping on a bench . |
| 21 | He 'd been there first , waiting , and I 'd walked up to the carefully prominent bait and presented him with a perfect target , a broad back in a scarlet sweater , an absolute cinch . |
| 22 | He was really annoyed , he 'd been there twelve years |
| 23 | He said that he 'd been there three weeks . |
| 24 | It had been there all the time hidden beneath the forced gaiety , the conversational duelling . |
| 25 | He had been there many times before . |