Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been there for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been there for Harry and the arrow had by-passed my heart . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | First of all I thought I 'd tell you who I was I 'm a G P in er in New Harlow , in Bush Fair , and I 've been there for nearly three years now . |
| 4 | Is she aware that when my hon. Friend the Member for Workington ( Mr. Campbell-Savours ) and I visited Moscow last week and questioned Russian officials about food aid , we found stacked away in a third-floor warehouse what we were told was the whole British contribution of beef to Moscow , which had been there for a month ? |
| 5 | ‘ I ca n't begin to say what I think about these people who stole the plaque and the names of the servicemen which had been there for forty-eight years . ’ |
| 6 | She has been there for the past 10 years . |
| 7 | She has been there for two years . |
| 8 | ‘ You 'd been there for your holidays as a little boy ? |
| 9 | She 'd been there for less than two weeks when her employers discovered she has leukaemia . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Exactly , unless they guarantee human rights er , you see , what 's really happening especially in the Baltic , that is er there , there is an anti Russian feeling you know , and er there is element in in the Baltic Republic who want to er , want to deport the Russian population who 've been there for maybe for the last forty five years . |
| 13 | You 've been there for over a month . ’ |
| 14 | which is when you 've been there for a for genuinely over an hour and a half . |
| 15 | When she had been there for about six weeks she received the Medical Superintendent 's recommendation for her bravery . |
| 16 | She had n't known Mark very well , but she had been there for Robyn when he had died , seen the agony that her friend had gone through . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 19 | " 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 … |
| 20 | And sad things like children falling into fires and because in the mud huts you have the fire in the centre of the hut and it 's quite easy for the children to fall in and there was one little boy there who had been there for over a year and they kept trying to erm heal up all his skin wounds . |
| 21 | Her new life at Usher started appropriately on January 1st One day in the office , and she understood the situation better than some of the staff who had been there for years . |
| 22 | The residents themselves recognised the move for some of the older , frailer people would be more difficult and those who had been there for the least time had agreed to go , he said . |
| 23 | No war correspondent , however , could have described the gloom that pervaded the air , or the look of hopelessness ingrained on the faces of anyone who had been there for more than a few days . |
| 24 | She 's been there for months — it 's a long-term project … |
| 25 | She 's been there for — oh , it must be twenty years . |
| 26 | She 's been there for the last month . |
| 27 | A Turk who 's been there for ten days and the club handyman . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ No one has been there for years , I would swear it . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |