Example sentences of "[been] there for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time . |
| 3 | He 's been there for weeks and I could have done the whole thing in a couple of days . |
| 4 | I had n't been there for more than a minute when the skipper bellowed : ‘ This is melanoma country , mate . |
| 5 | Assuming the car had gone missing at the same ti me as Angela Morgan , it might have been there for over a week ; it had only been found that evening by a uniformed constable who was keeping his eyes open . |
| 6 | I 'd been there for Harry and the arrow had by-passed my heart . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Clearly , Petasites has been there for a very long time . |
| 10 | He had been there for an hour and a half . |
| 11 | The doctor , who had now been there for some time , and was looking at his watch , had been explaining . |
| 12 | They are there ; they have been there for years . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She has been there for the past 10 years . |
| 15 | Been there for years . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | When she had been there for about six weeks she received the Medical Superintendent 's recommendation for her bravery . |
| 18 | It has been there for more than ten years . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If the groom had been there for over two years , he must have had plenty of opportunity for revenge on Tamar , if that had been his motive . |
| 21 | She felt as if she were not really there , as if she had not really been there for a long time . |
| 22 | ‘ People say the earth must be sour , but it has been there for eighteen years and still grows plants . |
| 23 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |
| 24 | There we dropped off one hunter and his labrador , and collected two others who had been there for several days , totally alone with their guns , their butane gas stove , the deer and the eternal forests surrounding them . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Eve had been there for as long as she remembered to help her fight her battles . |
| 27 | Like Doreen had always been putting the food on the table , like the old dog Oswald had been there for as long as they could recall . |
| 28 | ‘ No one has been there for years , I would swear it . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You 'd been there for your holidays as a little boy ? |
| 30 | He 'd been there for some time . |