Example sentences of "[pron] had been [verb] there for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
| 2 | Not until she had been sitting there for several minutes did Isabel realise that no sound at all had come from her torn and bleeding lips . |
| 3 | Since the embers were cool , Tallis imagined that she had been sitting there for hours . |
| 4 | And er he said it had been standing there for quite a while . |
| 5 | In Ballymacarrett , there was less unemployment , traditional gender roles were more clearly differentiated , the population was resident in traditional streets of terraced houses , and for the most part it had been established there for generations . |
| 6 | It was as if he had been waiting there for me all my life . |