Example sentences of "[vb past] be there for [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'd been there for Harry and the arrow had by-passed my heart . |
2 | His body was cold-I think he 'd been there for hours . ’ |
3 | 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 . |
4 | ‘ It had been there for years — I played there myself as a child — but it was situated in the worst possible place . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | I 'd been sexually abused and all of a sudden the poison that had been there for years started boiling to the surface . |
7 | There was no sign that anyone had been there for months . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Diamonds and rare jewels were strewn across the floor as if they had been there for millennia . |
10 | 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 . |