Example sentences of "[verb] been there [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see . |
| 2 | He 'd been there for some time . |
| 3 | I mean , you were n't even sure she 'd been there at all . ’ |
| 4 | Pumpido had to make two saves while neither of the Italians need have been there at all . |
| 5 | At the very genesis of all feeling and awareness one thought held sway which should not really have been there at all : that to be grown-up , to be a man , meant losing a great part of me . |
| 6 | The first thing that strikes me is that my aunt — an almost complete stranger as far as I was concerned — should have been there at all , within the family circle where no friend or neighbour was allowed , and thus in a privileged position to make personal remarks of the type which would not have been tolerated from any other quarter . |
| 7 | But you had to remember the circumstances they were there under — they should never have been there at all . |
| 8 | He 's supposed to have been there at half past nine ! |
| 9 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time . |
| 13 | " 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 … |
| 14 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 15 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |
| 16 | Because then it was that she knew , with blinding clarity , what had been there for some time now . |
| 17 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 18 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 19 | Keith Sutton , prosecuting on behalf of Sefton Council 's Public Protection Department , told the court there was sufficient oil in the insect to suggest it had been there for some time . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ The pits are so dramatic , and there 's so many of them , that we feel someone would have noticed if the whales had been there in such numbers in previous years . ’ |
| 22 | See look at all those cross pieces , they look as they 've been there for some purpose , you know ? |
| 23 | ‘ Back home in Australia , you can play for my university there , Queensland , for ever , so long as you 've been there at some time . |
| 24 | You think of the people , I mean , these people have been there for all those years |
| 25 | Those papers have been there for more than a century . |
| 26 | Brooke Alexander , of course , and Josh Baer , Ronald Feldman , Pat Hearn and Feature have been there for some time . |
| 27 | The most difficult part of getting out a galvanised hot water tank is likely to be disconnecting the pipes leading to and from the boiler particularly if they have been there for some time . |
| 28 | Getting the old cistern out can sometimes be a problem — particularly if it 's been there for some time . |
| 29 | I bet nobody 's been there at all . |