Example sentences of "[verb] be there " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those things should n't 've been there , for some reason they 'd infuriated him . |
| 2 | And your sister 's ten years older than you so they must 've been there ten years plus , must n't they ? |
| 3 | you , you must 've been there ten years plus . |
| 4 | Yeah , that 's the whole thing , we 've gathered all the information now , we may 've been there an hour , hour an a half , maybe two hours depending upon the appointment so you go back to the office and work on a plan of attack . |
| 5 | If you 'd have had the ti if you 'd 've been there |
| 6 | Oh Charlie shut her up at , at Chris 's mums funeral , when we went to Chris 's mum funeral , she 's erm , she said something or other about , request something or other about , pointing at the I should n't 've been there really because I did n't know her and Charlie said she felt did n't know her and erm she said oh well Rose never spoke about her , or words to that effect , Chris says the reason our mum never spoke about her cos she never showed her face in here anyway , he said when was the last time you see your mum , at that , she shut straight up like that , her face went , she 'd like saying that I should n't 've been there cos I did n't know her , I mean yet , she ai n't set foot in the house for fucking year like , you know she 's a horrible cow , and like when we went in the church , when we went in the crematorium er you had , she had a nice , big one up on the hill is it Arnold 's ? |
| 7 | Oh Charlie shut her up at , at Chris 's mums funeral , when we went to Chris 's mum funeral , she 's erm , she said something or other about , request something or other about , pointing at the I should n't 've been there really because I did n't know her and Charlie said she felt did n't know her and erm she said oh well Rose never spoke about her , or words to that effect , Chris says the reason our mum never spoke about her cos she never showed her face in here anyway , he said when was the last time you see your mum , at that , she shut straight up like that , her face went , she 'd like saying that I should n't 've been there cos I did n't know her , I mean yet , she ai n't set foot in the house for fucking year like , you know she 's a horrible cow , and like when we went in the church , when we went in the crematorium er you had , she had a nice , big one up on the hill is it Arnold 's ? |
| 8 | Erm so in actual fact we 'd 've been there or thereabouts had we not made the budget assumptions that we did . |
| 9 | But I mean are there even broader headings on on that ? |
| 10 | But I mean are there er er y y you 're squeamish , you 're not er violence |
| 11 | We 've exhaustively surveyed Leeds time and again to find these erm so called brown field sites which our own residents suggest are there . |
| 12 | What matters is that the Labour leader is suddenly there , reminding one how infrequently he has been there hitherto . |
| 13 | Peaceful , mellow and noble , in the shade of a great sycamore , it is the sort of house that feels as though it has been there from time immemorial . |
| 14 | Campbell links our problems of leadership with that of Jesus ' loneliness , and comments : ‘ See , he has been there too and because he identifies with it , he can handle it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Clearly , Petasites has been there for a very long time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She has been there for the past 10 years . |
| 19 | There is one felltop , however , that everybody who has been there will remember vividly ever after . |
| 20 | I got a room in the inn , and despite the windiness of the house and the army of earwigs that people it , I was very snug : a friend who has been there in winter gives amusing particulars regarding the draughts that are vocal as well as felt in this palace of the winds ; he found it necessary to nail up his bed-room windows with many plies of blanket , and thus to allow day and night to glide unnoted past , for all was dark — yet were not the breathings of the winds hushed ! |
| 21 | It has been there for more than ten years . |
| 22 | It has been there in one form or another since Anglo-Saxon times , probably the first building being of wood . |
| 23 | ‘ People say the earth must be sour , but it has been there for eighteen years and still grows plants . |
| 24 | Chris has been there . |
| 25 | The article was obviously written by a woman who has been there and survived , as I have . |
| 26 | The venture capitalist has been there before ; he should be able to recognise the warning signs and take appropriate action . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ No one has been there for years , I would swear it . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He has been there 19 days — God knows how he looked when he arrived . |
| 30 | The bed has been there since Father Collins 's time , in the war . |