Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] there [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been there for Harry and the arrow had by-passed my heart . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'd been there for your holidays as a little boy ? |
| 3 | He 'd been there for some time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His body was cold-I think he 'd been there for hours . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see . |
| 9 | They 'd been there for more than fifteen years . |
| 10 | She 'd been there for less than two weeks when her employers discovered she has leukaemia . |
| 11 | I mean , you were n't even sure she 'd been there at all . ’ |
| 12 | She 'd been there at the time he 'd wanted a woman . |
| 13 | They 'd been there at the wedding , when the wine , that water had been turned into wine . |
| 14 | You got half an hour plus ten minutes relief for your refreshments and that would happen at ten in the morning and you 'd been there since seven . |
| 15 | And I 'd been there from six in the morning till quarter to nine . |
| 16 | He 'd been there from the beginning , that 's we know |
| 17 | She was coldly angry now that he should so calmly assume that what he desired was there for him to take . |
| 18 | They told us they had been there since the outbreak of the war — approximately 34 hours previously . |
| 19 | He was first on with his presentation , and had been there since six-thirty to make sure there were no slip-ups with his slide presentation . |
| 20 | The shop was often at its busiest on a Saturday , when the farmers came in , or the men who had a half day themselves were marched in by wives to have themselves fitted out by Mr Hogan , or Mike the old assistant , the tailor who had been there since time immemorial . |
| 21 | He had been there since his early morning session with Tolonen , unaware of how his fate had hung in the balance in the interim , but Li Yuan did not summon him at once . |
| 22 | Then they were in the flat , the first time she had been there since leaving Oliver typing his letter the previous morning . |
| 23 | We spent most of that first day walking around the town looking at the historical buildings some of which had been there since the mid-sixteenth century . |
| 24 | He had been there since lunchtime , and it had been while she 'd watched him that she had come to the decision that she must go . |
| 25 | People 's lives were Digital oriented : many had been there since finishing second level school or university … life outside Digital was unthinkable . |
| 26 | There were none of the crowds that had been there during the day and we could really pray . |
| 27 | But , unfortunately , Neil was not even safely ensconced in the house , as he should have been , so Ewen Mackay was free to resume whatever his business had been there on Wednesday night . |
| 28 | The sun was setting , making the dogs pink , like the pink wine that had been there on the table . |
| 29 | She had been there on sufferance for so long and yet she had never been quite brave enough to break free , to launch out by herself . |
| 30 | Ven had been there on Monday , of course . |