Example sentences of "have be there [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ No one has been there for years , I would swear it . ’
2 His body was cold-I think he 'd been there for hours . ’
3 Once at the hospital , Liz was taken to the delivery room immediately and Mark went off to find the waiting room , which was full of exhausted partners who 'd been there for hours .
4 How long Joe had been in the marsh she did not know , but it was a very lonely spot , and he could have been there for hours and hours — perhaps even all through the night , thought Cheryl .
5 It , too , must have been there for years .
6 It must have been there for years , abandoned to the plunderers , an illicit plaything for the local children , a welcome shelter for the occasional vagrant like the seventy-year-old alcoholic who had stumbled on the body .
7 They must have been there for years . ’
8 ‘ It had been there for years — I played there myself as a child — but it was situated in the worst possible place .
9 Her new life at Usher started appropriately on January 1st One day in the office , and she understood the situation better than some of the staff who had been there for years .
10 I 'd been sexually abused and all of a sudden the poison that had been there for years started boiling to the surface .
11 There was no sign that anyone had been there for months .
12 Diamonds and rare jewels were strewn across the floor as if they had been there for millennia .
13 Some refugees in the embassy gardens said they had been there for days , but had not boarded the sealed refugee trains travelling through East Germany to Bavaria .
14 Mhm cos they 've been there for ages have n't they Mary do n't you think ?
15 They are there ; they have been there for years .
16 Rocks look more natural if you bed them into the gravel slightly , as if they have been there for years .
17 that have been there for years have n't they ?
18 No footings were laid — the walls were built directly on the patio paving stones ; they have been there for years and I thought there was little chance of them subsiding .
19 They have been there over years and many of the established patterns of reaction are demanding to be looked at .
20 It 's been there for ages and ages and ages .
21 He 's been there for weeks and I could have done the whole thing in a couple of days .
22 There 's a sign at the top of the road that 's been there for years , ever since they opened the new road , and it says ‘ Strome Ferry — no ferry ’ , and that just says it all .
23 She 's been there for months — it 's a long-term project …
24 We broke that , or that was broke er , but we 'll blame the carrier now and look at it , then our security guy goes out and they know it 's been sitting around someone 's you know , it 's been there for months !
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