Example sentences of "had been there for [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time .
2 " Any more than I can explain why cholera should have always attacked those of our soldiers who had recently arrived in the Crimea in preference to those who had been there for some time
3 He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards .
4 Because then it was that she knew , with blinding clarity , what had been there for some time now .
5 It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time .
6 It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time .
7 Keith Sutton , prosecuting on behalf of Sefton Council 's Public Protection Department , told the court there was sufficient oil in the insect to suggest it had been there for some time .
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