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 |