Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] been there for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A clergyman who was in Manchester Cathedral when the second device went off said : ‘ I had only been there for a matter of seconds when I heard an almighty crump . |
| 2 | Perhaps not as bad as Buff , because the animal had only been there for a second or two and I had told them it was a robot . |
| 3 | References in the work of Constantine Porphyrogenitus , written in the tenth century , indicate that they were settled in Dalmatia in his time and had probably been there for two hundred years . |
| 4 | It had probably been there for some time ! |
| 5 | The doctor , who had now been there for some time , and was looking at his watch , had been explaining . |
| 6 | I 'll come following you He d yeah it was odd when Frank said that cos apparently what happened , he just sort of started saying that he did n't think that Frank had really been there for him and that he was being a bit sort of selfish and stuff which I mean maybe he has been but the thing is if you know if Frank 's making this massive effort to like fit in and meet new people and stuff then |