Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] there [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was really annoyed , he 'd been there twelve years |
| 2 | He 'd been there all night sleeping on a bench . |
| 3 | She 'd been there two days and was running out of money . |
| 4 | Cos I 'd been there that morning |
| 5 | And I 'd been there four year , really , wipe shit from her arse every morning |
| 6 | Yeah , when I started in nineteen thirty one and in those days you got a rise every six months and I got a one and three rise after they 'd been there six months and at the year I was earning seventeen and six . |
| 7 | The Manageress there erm I was there and she , I , after I 'd been there eighteen months , she had a heart attack and the girl took up her tea tray , one of the girls took up her , because she was n't on duty till about just quarter to six to do the money . |
| 8 | You 've been there quite a whi well yes you 'd been there seven years when you gave up had n't you ? |
| 9 | He said that he 'd been there three weeks . |
| 10 | He had been there many times before . |
| 11 | I had been there nine times previously , but I supposed it was the same as your time as a baby — you could not remember a thing about it . |
| 12 | When one prisoner who had been there six months found his wife was about to have a baby , he was taken by the turnkey to the room of a shabby man dressed in a torn and darned rough-weather sea jacket who had once been a surgeon on a passenger ship but was now ‘ a ghastly medical scarecrow ’ , Dr Haggage . |
| 13 | The Manager of Managers had been there thirty years . |
| 14 | As Rachel reached her flat and let herself in she found herself trying to remember whether David had been there that evening when her mother had sent for her . |
| 15 | There were ten birthday cards on the mantelpiece , but they had been there two days and she took them down . |
| 16 | After I had been there one term , however , my father took one of his almost yearly visits to Africa , this time for a rather longer period of about four months . |
| 17 | By now we had been there several hours and things were n't looking very optimistic . |
| 18 | They had been there three weeks . |
| 19 | But after she had been there three weeks , she was asked to make a house call . |
| 20 | We had been there some time . |
| 21 | No fewer than 75 of the 99 households recorded in 1861 had been there ten years earlier . |
| 22 | When Juliet asked about staff who had been there twenty years ago , she went into a long rigmarole about the different jobs she 'd had , and her family problems , then digressed to the present staff . |
| 23 | I just wondered is there another way ? |