Example sentences of "[verb] been there for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No one has been there for years , I would swear it . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd been there for Harry and the arrow had by-passed my heart . |
| 3 | His body was cold-I think he 'd been there for hours . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | How long Joe had been in the marsh she did not know , but it was a very lonely spot , and he could have been there for hours and hours — perhaps even all through the night , thought Cheryl . |
| 6 | It , too , must have been there for years . |
| 7 | It must have been there for years , abandoned to the plunderers , an illicit plaything for the local children , a welcome shelter for the occasional vagrant like the seventy-year-old alcoholic who had stumbled on the body . |
| 8 | They must have been there for years . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It had been there for years — I played there myself as a child — but it was situated in the worst possible place . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I 'd been sexually abused and all of a sudden the poison that had been there for years started boiling to the surface . |
| 12 | There was no sign that anyone had been there for months . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Diamonds and rare jewels were strewn across the floor as if they had been there for millennia . |
| 15 | Some refugees in the embassy gardens said they had been there for days , but had not boarded the sealed refugee trains travelling through East Germany to Bavaria . |
| 16 | Mhm cos they 've been there for ages have n't they Mary do n't you think ? |
| 17 | They are there ; they have been there for years . |
| 18 | Rocks look more natural if you bed them into the gravel slightly , as if they have been there for years . |
| 19 | that have been there for years have n't they ? |
| 20 | No footings were laid — the walls were built directly on the patio paving stones ; they have been there for years and I thought there was little chance of them subsiding . |
| 21 | It 's been there for ages and ages and ages . |
| 22 | He 's been there for weeks and I could have done the whole thing in a couple of days . |
| 23 | There 's a sign at the top of the road that 's been there for years , ever since they opened the new road , and it says ‘ Strome Ferry — no ferry ’ , and that just says it all . |
| 24 | She 's been there for months — it 's a long-term project … |
| 25 | We broke that , or that was broke er , but we 'll blame the carrier now and look at it , then our security guy goes out and they know it 's been sitting around someone 's you know , it 's been there for months ! |