Example sentences of "[verb] [been] there [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been there all night sleeping on a bench . |
| 2 | This time next week it 'll be as though you 'd been there all your life . |
| 3 | What can you mind what was the first sort of action on Hoy that impressed you cos Well you 'd been there all your life you would have really seen the whole process happening . |
| 4 | Cos I 'd been there that morning |
| 5 | But in a more important sense he would be wrong , for there is no such person as he had in mind and I would have been there all the time . |
| 6 | Luckily , our man 's name began with a B or I would have been there all night . ’ |
| 7 | In the end we just let the audience in or we 'd have been there all day . ’ |
| 8 | That you should have been there all the while and me not know it all this time ! |
| 9 | It must have been there all the time , sitting motionless and staring straight at me from the far edge of the level area of the Grounds , but I had n't noticed it at first . |
| 10 | He may have been there all night . ’ |
| 11 | It could have been there all the time . |
| 12 | ‘ I should like that very much , but you must have been there many times before . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Coun Richmond has seen a shopping trolley and complained but that trolley wo n't have been there more than a week , yet when his party were running the council there were ducks nesting in trolleys , ’ said Coun Young . |
| 14 | Emily must have been there some time . |
| 15 | Portlington was a public school so minor that you got none of the cachet for having been there that is the real point of an English public school education . |
| 16 | ‘ I would definitely like to have been there all the way at the start of history , at the start of human beings , to see all that happened . |
| 17 | He had been there many times before . |
| 18 | As Rachel reached her flat and let herself in she found herself trying to remember whether David had been there that evening when her mother had sent for her . |
| 19 | Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background . |
| 20 | The extra pairs had been there all the time ; they had simply found nowhere to nest before . |
| 21 | But after that seemingly unpropitious start , Topaz settled into the routine at Yelton as if she had been there all her life . |
| 22 | But the question had been there all the time . |
| 23 | It had been there all the time hidden beneath the forced gaiety , the conversational duelling . |
| 24 | She was certain MacQuillan had not gone to the bar because she had been there all the time until then . |
| 25 | Because the signs had been there all the time if she 'd ever bothered to look further than his surface charm . |
| 26 | She simply tells me something , as if I had been there all the time . |
| 27 | By now we had been there several hours and things were n't looking very optimistic . |
| 28 | We had been there some time . |
| 29 | If I was on the streets of Ireland now , and I 've been there many occasions and someone said to me , look at that Welsh get there , I would just have to take it . |
| 30 | And er I 've been there all my life and that 's and that 'll be eighty seven years old come May and er I 've just worked on the farm all my days and er then of course when my people died I just er stayed myself , and then lived with other people here and there , just to help them . |