Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been there for [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Old Mr Fiddle has not been there for some time , Rose , ’ said Dagmar from the door . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | It had probably been there for some time ! |
4 | The doctor , who had now been there for some time , and was looking at his watch , had been explaining . |
5 | I had n't been there for more than a minute when the skipper bellowed : ‘ This is melanoma country , mate . |
6 | The couple next door said she had n't been there for several days . |
7 | have n't been there for many years |