Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] there for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | Thirty-six of these families ( 44 per cent ) had lived in Wigston for at least a century and fifteen or sixteen ( 20 per cent ) had been there for 200 years or more . |
| 4 | Then at the hotel , he was recognized and before we had been there for five minutes Radio Gibraltar was down to interview him . |
| 5 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 6 | ‘ I ca n't begin to say what I think about these people who stole the plaque and the names of the servicemen which had been there for forty-eight years . ’ |
| 7 | We also have the Castle Court development , complete with massive subsidies from the British government , which was built on the backs of the Smithfield traders , some of whom had been there for fifty years and whose original conception of a shopping complex run by local people was hijacked . |
| 8 | They had been there for six months , the duration of their marriage . |
| 9 | But the man whom he promised to come back and visit had been there for twenty years , the oldest inhabitant , as the turnkey would tell newcomers ; he could play the piano and speak fluent French and Italian . |
| 10 | This had been there for thousands of years and had defeated the British Raj 's efforts to move it . |