Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been there for " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the beginning of 1942 rapid expansion had taken place , so that by the end of that year there were some 3,293 staff of all grades , of whom 1,566 were service personnel and 1,727 civilian , and by the time that I had been there for a year there were over 5,000 in all . |
| 2 | When she had been there for about six weeks she received the Medical Superintendent 's recommendation for her bravery . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Then at the hotel , he was recognized and before we had been there for five minutes Radio Gibraltar was down to interview him . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They had been there for six months , the duration of their marriage . |
| 7 | Although he did n't know them , he could have sworn they had been there for the past hour . |
| 8 | Diamonds and rare jewels were strewn across the floor as if they had been there for millennia . |
| 9 | ‘ It had been there for years — I played there myself as a child — but it was situated in the worst possible place . |
| 10 | It 's rather like er I had a plant the other day , a marigold , and it had been there for about two weeks and it was a lovely plant , and er I noticed it beginning to droop and I thought , oh well it 's finished now , it 's in a pot . |
| 11 | It had been there for about a fortnight , and was in the right age range . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He had been there for an hour and a half . |
| 14 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |
| 15 | He had been there for almost two weeks now , visiting Uncle Lionel . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ He had been there for two nights , sinking deeper and deeper , ’ but the troops , obsessed by their own suffering , passed by without so much as casting a glance at the wretched beast . |