Example sentences of "[verb] be there [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been there all night sleeping on a bench . |
| 2 | Cos I 'd been there that morning |
| 3 | And I 'd been there four year , really , wipe shit from her arse every morning |
| 4 | In the end we just let the audience in or we 'd have been there all day . ’ |
| 5 | Luckily , our man 's name began with a B or I would have been there all night . ’ |
| 6 | He may have been there all night . ’ |
| 7 | Emily must have been there some time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | After I had been there one term , however , my father took one of his almost yearly visits to Africa , this time for a rather longer period of about four months . |
| 10 | We had been there some time . |
| 11 | You 've been there all day and ca n't remember ! |
| 12 | Erm there 's been a reduction er , in the er , staff er because er er people have moved on and er , I take Sue 's point about er if it were n't for the fact that erm they 'd got fully e e experienced staff who 've been there some time , they have n't , not used to this churning over o of , and therefore , that has paid off in er in er in erm so far as being able to deal with the problems that have arisen and er , you 'll see further on er , addition profiles of the work that 's been done with er in this area over the town . |
| 13 | Kathy those documents have been there all week and you not taken the trouble to look at them but you will quip about the poll tax and its iniquities but you ca n't even read your own poll tax notice . |
| 14 | Troops have been there some time and they 're familiar with locals on the ground . |
| 15 | that 's been there all day , come on Deana , if you 're gon na have the lamp on you 're gon na have to put something away , some books or is that packet any good now ? |
| 16 | Yes , he 's been there this week |
| 17 | I just wondered is there another way ? |