Example sentences of "[verb] [be] there for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , Petasites has been there for a very long time . |
| 2 | The carpet has been there for three years and is still in good condition — the only signs of wear are the marks left by ‘ wee Lachie ’ , the Stewarts ' three-year-old son . |
| 3 | She has been there for the past 10 years . |
| 4 | It has been there for more than ten years . |
| 5 | ‘ People say the earth must be sour , but it has been there for eighteen years and still grows plants . |
| 6 | ‘ No one has been there for years , I would swear it . ’ |
| 7 | It has been there for two weeks and can not be released because the 3,500 troops promised by the United Nations to secure food convoys and get them moving have not arrived . |
| 8 | And when the hole has been there for a couple of days , they can dig another if necessary . |
| 9 | She has been there for two years . |
| 10 | The social dimension of the Community has been there for a long time . |
| 11 | I mean you do get parishes where the parish priest has been there for the last thirty years or something like that . |
| 12 | The cricket pitch has been there for thirty five years . |
| 13 | I 'd been there for Harry and the arrow had by-passed my heart . |
| 14 | ‘ You 'd been there for your holidays as a little boy ? |
| 15 | He 'd been there for some time . |
| 16 | They demanded that everybody get out of their way so they could launch their boat , while people who 'd been there for the best of the tide were already bringing their craft out . |
| 17 | His body was cold-I think he 'd been there for hours . ’ |
| 18 | Once at the hospital , Liz was taken to the delivery room immediately and Mark went off to find the waiting room , which was full of exhausted partners who 'd been there for hours . |
| 19 | And er then we erm we , we , we went on the wards for about two or three hours a day and we just s sort of did what we were told , took out drinks and , and that sort of thing , and mouthwashes , and after er we 'd been there for about six or eight weeks we were allowed to wash patients , if , if they could n't wash themselves . |
| 20 | He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see . |
| 21 | They 'd been there for more than fifteen years . |
| 22 | She 'd been there for less than two weeks when her employers discovered she has leukaemia . |
| 23 | Well they sort of said that what , hopefully , she 'll like be there for a couple of days and she 'll never think she 's been anywhere else , she 'll think she 's been there all the time . |
| 24 | Assuming the car had gone missing at the same ti me as Angela Morgan , it might have been there for over a week ; it had only been found that evening by a uniformed constable who was keeping his eyes open . |
| 25 | How long Joe had been in the marsh she did not know , but it was a very lonely spot , and he could have been there for hours and hours — perhaps even all through the night , thought Cheryl . |
| 26 | It , too , must have been there for years . |
| 27 | It must have been there for at least an hour . |
| 28 | The males , now about 18 inches long , may have spent only three years in the rivers ; the females in the higher reaches may have been there for as many as eight or nine and are three times as long . |
| 29 | It must have been there for years , abandoned to the plunderers , an illicit plaything for the local children , a welcome shelter for the occasional vagrant like the seventy-year-old alcoholic who had stumbled on the body . |
| 30 | If there had been a man up the tree on the night of Mary Connon 's death — and a conversation with Kathy Grogan earlier that morning had convinced him , though her interpretation of the written word might be naively literal , there was nothing wrong with her senses , then that man could have been there for only one of three purposes . |