Example sentences of "been there [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two long-serving ministers , Dr Brian Mawhinney , who has been there since 1986 , and Mr Richard Needham , since 1985 , both return to senior posts in mainland ministries . |
| 2 | ‘ Ought n't you to be fetching Lisa — she 's been there since 3 and if they 're having a party tonight they 'd probably like to get her off their hands . ’ |
| 3 | He was first on with his presentation , and had been there since six-thirty to make sure there were no slip-ups with his slide presentation . |
| 4 | Aerospatiale and Socata have been there since 1911 and will probably be there for the next 80 years , whether they buy Piper or not . |
| 5 | You got half an hour plus ten minutes relief for your refreshments and that would happen at ten in the morning and you 'd been there since seven . |
| 6 | Once I got in well hungover at four in the afternoon when I should have been there at 11 . |
| 7 | This was like quarter to twelve , he should have been there at eleven o'clock . |
| 8 | The cricket pitch has been there for thirty five years . |
| 9 | They had been there for six months , the duration of their marriage . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ People say the earth must be sour , but it has been there for eighteen years and still grows plants . |
| 12 | Then at the hotel , he was recognized and before we had been there for five minutes Radio Gibraltar was down to interview him . |
| 13 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 14 | It has been there for two weeks and can not be released because the 3,500 troops promised by the United Nations to secure food convoys and get them moving have not arrived . |
| 15 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She has been there for two years . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 20 | The Jordanians are doing a magnificent job , keeping , keeping the show going erm people in those camps in many cases have been there for 4,5 or 7 days . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This had been there for thousands of years and had defeated the British Raj 's efforts to move it . |
| 23 | The carpet has been there for three years and is still in good condition — the only signs of wear are the marks left by ‘ wee Lachie ’ , the Stewarts ' three-year-old son . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm not saying they won because of that , but … people are used to it , it 's been there for 20 years . ’ |
| 25 | We have been there for 20 years . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The er the troops w have been there for twenty five years nearly . |
| 28 | But they 've been there for twenty years on that spot . |
| 29 | A Turk who 's been there for ten days and the club handyman . ’ |
| 30 | And I 'd been there from six in the morning till quarter to nine . |