Example sentences of "had be [verb] there for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The English had been fishing there for over a century , and had been settled for over fifty years , so they had a strong position for making the French give up any claims to settle there . |
| 2 | In Ballymacarrett , there was less unemployment , traditional gender roles were more clearly differentiated , the population was resident in traditional streets of terraced houses , and for the most part it had been established there for generations . |
| 3 | It was as if he had been waiting there for me all my life . |
| 4 | I checked behind the wall ‘ phone to see if any mail had been stuffed there for me but , as usual , there was nothing . |
| 5 | And er he said it had been standing there for quite a while . |
| 6 | Not until she had been sitting there for several minutes did Isabel realise that no sound at all had come from her torn and bleeding lips . |
| 7 | Since the embers were cool , Tallis imagined that she had been sitting there for hours . |
| 8 | Bars that had been put there for their protection when the room had been a nursery for the four girls : Daisy , Ethel , Lily , Amy , the little daughters of Alfred Greenwood , founder of a chain of grocery shops serving the clothing trade of Leeds , in the West Riding of Yorkshire . |
| 9 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
| 10 | An imitation Everest base camp had been pitched there for the benefit of press , potential sponsors and team members in need of some high-altitude practice . |