Example sentences of "[been] there [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You bozos do n't seem to realise it but if we had n't been there at that Florence Conference , would not be in the leading position it currently holds with the commission to guarantee further funds and to create a positive role for Britain in Europe with the commission to wuk look at the issues that are gon na come up in 1993 .
2 ‘ Back home in Australia , you can play for my university there , Queensland , for ever , so long as you 've been there at some time .
3 It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years .
4 These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 .
5 have n't been there for many years
6 See look at all those cross pieces , they look as they 've been there for some purpose , you know ?
7 Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time .
8 The doctor , who had now been there for some time , and was looking at his watch , had been explaining .
9 He 'd been there for some time .
10 Brooke Alexander , of course , and Josh Baer , Ronald Feldman , Pat Hearn and Feature have been there for some time .
11 " Any more than I can explain why cholera should have always attacked those of our soldiers who had recently arrived in the Crimea in preference to those who had been there for some time
12 Getting the old cistern out can sometimes be a problem — particularly if it 's been there for some time .
13 The most difficult part of getting out a galvanised hot water tank is likely to be disconnecting the pipes leading to and from the boiler particularly if they have been there for some time .
14 It had probably been there for some time !
15 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 .
16 Because then it was that she knew , with blinding clarity , what had been there for some time now .
17 It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time .
18 It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time .
19 ‘ Old Mr Fiddle has not been there for some time , Rose , ’ said Dagmar from the door .
20 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 .
21 After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff .
22 There we dropped off one hunter and his labrador , and collected two others who had been there for several days , totally alone with their guns , their butane gas stove , the deer and the eternal forests surrounding them .
23 The couple next door said she had n't been there for several days .
24 ‘ The pits are so dramatic , and there 's so many of them , that we feel someone would have noticed if the whales had been there in such numbers in previous years . ’
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