Example sentences of "[vb past] be there for " 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 | She was coldly angry now that he should so calmly assume that what he desired was there for him to take . |
| 12 | Some refugees in the embassy gardens said they had been there for days , but had not boarded the sealed refugee trains travelling through East Germany to Bavaria . |
| 13 | Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time . |
| 14 | Sixty-two per cent of those in old people 's homes had been there for a year or more compared with 47 per cent of those in nursing homes , but this difference might have occurred by chance . |
| 15 | By the beginning of 1942 rapid expansion had taken place , so that by the end of that year there were some 3,293 staff of all grades , of whom 1,566 were service personnel and 1,727 civilian , and by the time that I had been there for a year there were over 5,000 in all . |
| 16 | He had been there for an hour and a half . |
| 17 | When she had been there for about six weeks she received the Medical Superintendent 's recommendation for her bravery . |
| 18 | But the man whom he promised to come back and visit had been there for twenty years , the oldest inhabitant , as the turnkey would tell newcomers ; he could play the piano and speak fluent French and Italian . |
| 19 | If the groom had been there for over two years , he must have had plenty of opportunity for revenge on Tamar , if that had been his motive . |
| 20 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |
| 21 | There we dropped off one hunter and his labrador , and collected two others who had been there for several days , totally alone with their guns , their butane gas stove , the deer and the eternal forests surrounding them . |
| 22 | Eve had been there for as long as she remembered to help her fight her battles . |
| 23 | Like Doreen had always been putting the food on the table , like the old dog Oswald had been there for as long as they could recall . |
| 24 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 25 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 26 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They had been there for six months , the duration of their marriage . |
| 29 | Although he did n't know them , he could have sworn they had been there for the past hour . |
| 30 | We also have the Castle Court development , complete with massive subsidies from the British government , which was built on the backs of the Smithfield traders , some of whom had been there for fifty years and whose original conception of a shopping complex run by local people was hijacked . |