Example sentences of "been there for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sixty-two per cent of those in old people 's homes had been there for a year or more compared with 47 per cent of those in nursing homes , but this difference might have occurred by chance . |
| 2 | By the beginning of 1942 rapid expansion had taken place , so that by the end of that year there were some 3,293 staff of all grades , of whom 1,566 were service personnel and 1,727 civilian , and by the time that I had been there for a year there were over 5,000 in all . |
| 3 | Clearly , Petasites has been there for a very long time . |
| 4 | She felt as if she were not really there , as if she had not really been there for a long time . |
| 5 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He 's a new environment officer , he 's only been there for a month or something . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Er although most people think it 's been there for a long time , it has n't . |
| 10 | And when the hole has been there for a couple of days , they can dig another if necessary . |
| 11 | Cos this is quite strong stuff I 'm gon na give you because that 's , once that 's been there for a week or two it 's hard to get it shifted . |
| 12 | The team , including John Hall from Scottish Nuclear , had been there for a year before I arrived and had done much in identifying the work required . |
| 13 | Is she aware that when my hon. Friend the Member for Workington ( Mr. Campbell-Savours ) and I visited Moscow last week and questioned Russian officials about food aid , we found stacked away in a third-floor warehouse what we were told was the whole British contribution of beef to Moscow , which had been there for a month ? |
| 14 | The social dimension of the Community has been there for a long time . |
| 15 | " Signs of a coming plateau have been there for a long time and are now getting better and better " , according to independent consultant Richard Kimberlin . |
| 16 | No it has n't been there for a little while British National Corpus I 've been carrying it around with me |
| 17 | But she has n't been there for a few weeks now so I think she might be ill . |
| 18 | Been there for a start so it must be a rough place . |
| 19 | I mean these have n't just been put here , they 've been there for a long time ! |
| 20 | Been there for a hundred years have n't they ? |
| 21 | It 's their intention to leave the boat station there , but as a boat hiring station only , and to let rent that to somebody , not to have boat building enterprises , not to have a car park , not to have a chandlery and so on which was put there by the person whose who used to own it , and we will recoup all of that money from renting that boat station so it can be run as a boat hiring station again , and from three or four of the moorings that are will have been there for a long time , with proper permission . |
| 22 | She has been there for the past 10 years . |
| 23 | The flesh itself ranges from the blood red of the arriviste joint to the dull browny-purple bloom of those that have been there for the full three weeks . |
| 24 | Although he did n't know them , he could have sworn they had been there for the past hour . |
| 25 | They demanded that everybody get out of their way so they could launch their boat , while people who 'd been there for the best of the tide were already bringing their craft out . |
| 26 | On Jan. 28 Goulding said that " one of the conditions which has always been there for the deployment of the UN force in Yugoslavia , namely a stable ceasefire , has now been fulfilled " , although there were still violations of the ceasefire , albeit " comparatively minor " ones . |
| 27 | I mean you do get parishes where the parish priest has been there for the last thirty years or something like that . |
| 28 | Thus , the squatter lost — and would have lost even had he been there for the twelve years . |
| 29 | The late arrival by 13 minutes of three of their key players left Peterlee with too much work to do at Consett where they went down in a first division game by 91 points to 58 as they were left wondering what effect Ivor James , Gord Laing and Allen Quarmby might have had had they been there for the start . |
| 30 | The residents themselves recognised the move for some of the older , frailer people would be more difficult and those who had been there for the least time had agreed to go , he said . |