Example sentences of "[verb] been there for [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 It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time .
7 " 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 …
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Because then it was that she knew , with blinding clarity , what had been there for some time now .
11 It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time .
12 It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 See look at all those cross pieces , they look as they 've been there for some purpose , you know ?
16 You think of the people , I mean , these people have been there for all those years
17 Those papers have been there for more than a century .
18 Brooke Alexander , of course , and Josh Baer , Ronald Feldman , Pat Hearn and Feature have been there for some time .
19 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 .
20 Getting the old cistern out can sometimes be a problem — particularly if it 's been there for some time .
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