Example sentences of "[pers pn] have 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | I 've been there two years now . |
| 9 | And er I 've been there all my life and that 's and that 'll be eighty seven years old come May and er I 've just worked on the farm all my days and er then of course when my people died I just er stayed myself , and then lived with other people here and there , just to help them . |
| 10 | I 've been there six months now . |
| 11 | If I was on the streets of Ireland now , and I 've been there many occasions and someone said to me , look at that Welsh get there , I would just have to take it . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I 've been there four , and he was there a year before , so it 's five years . |
| 14 | ‘ I managed to crawl to the outside lavatory and I 've been there most of the time . ’ |
| 15 | I have been there many times and had many unshakeable criticisms , which now have , of course , been shaken . ’ |
| 16 | ( Oh , yes , and before you ask , I have been there many a time . |
| 17 | I have been there many times , both for business and for pleasure . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This time next week it 'll be as though you 'd been there all your life . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | You 've been there quite a whi well yes you 'd been there seven years when you gave up had n't you ? |
| 22 | She 'd been there two days and was running out of money . |
| 23 | You 've been there all day and ca n't remember ! |
| 24 | You 've been there nine years then . |
| 25 | The first thing , he decided , was to check out Riverstown in case she had been there first . |
| 26 | But after that seemingly unpropitious start , Topaz settled into the routine at Yelton as if she had been there all her life . |
| 27 | She was certain MacQuillan had not gone to the bar because she had been there all the time until then . |
| 28 | But after she had been there three weeks , she was asked to make a house call . |
| 29 | Well they sort of said that what , hopefully , she 'll like be there for a couple of days and she 'll never think she 's been anywhere else , she 'll think she 's been there all the time . |
| 30 | Cos I say she 's been there thirty years so she must do alright , everybody knows |