Example sentences of "[verb] been here for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were a striking couple — tall , slim and very , very pale against old hands who 'd been here for days or even weeks . |
| 2 | She wished he could have been here for Christmas . |
| 3 | I seem to have been here for ages . ’ |
| 4 | If no one had been here for years , why did she fancy she could smell cigarette smoke ? |
| 5 | I 've been here for years and this is the first conversation I 've had with a human for simply ages . |
| 6 | I have been here for decades untold in this court , never leaving it except in my mind , ranging to far stars yet never truly experiencing those elsewheres . |
| 7 | ‘ But some of them have been here for ages , ’ she remonstrated . |
| 8 | ‘ The Arbuthnots have been here for generations . |
| 9 | These have been here for months |
| 10 | ‘ He 's been here for hours , though . |
| 11 | No one 's been here for years . ’ |