Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [been] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 2 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 3 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 4 | Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time . |
| 5 | Those papers have been there for more than a century . |
| 6 | 50 officers are involved in the hunt for the man 's attackers ; scenes of crime and forensic experts have been here for most of the day . |