Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been there [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She simply tells me something , as if I had been there all the time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The first thing , he decided , was to check out Riverstown in case she had been there first . |
| 5 | But after that seemingly unpropitious start , Topaz settled into the routine at Yelton as if she had been there all her life . |
| 6 | She was certain MacQuillan had not gone to the bar because she had been there all the time until then . |
| 7 | But after she had been there three weeks , she was asked to make a house call . |
| 8 | We had been there some time . |
| 9 | By now we had been there several hours and things were n't looking very optimistic . |
| 10 | There were ten birthday cards on the mantelpiece , but they had been there two days and she took them down . |
| 11 | They had been there three weeks . |
| 12 | It had been there all the time hidden beneath the forced gaiety , the conversational duelling . |
| 13 | He had been there many times before . |