Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] there [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd only been there twelve months . |
| 2 | And I bloody well know that when we you know , first moved there and we 're in the caravan she had n't asked him and they 'd already been there eighteen months ! |
| 3 | and they 'd both been there thirty years since they 've left school |
| 4 | It 's very good — we 've only been there two days and could n't even scratch the surface . |
| 5 | But I 've only been there one day — half a day , really , since I took a good bit of time off this afternoon to talk to you . |
| 6 | you 've been there and I 've only been there thirteen years so |
| 7 | I 've only been there five minutes , ’ Maggie protested . |
| 8 | You 've only been there eighteen months while I 've known it all my life . |
| 9 | But she had only been there four months when she fell prey to supervisor Brian McConville who subjected her to a harrowing sexual harassment ordeal . |
| 10 | Duncan had already been there twelve hours , just due for a watch-change , when the IRA gang arrived . |
| 11 | Something which had not been there three years ago now existed . |
| 12 | She did n't turn up , so of course I then telephoned her office and found she had n't been there that week . |
| 13 | He had n't been there that morning and now she had run him to earth in the café . |
| 14 | She felt a moment 's self-consciousness and doubt , because she knew she had changed , too ; that there were lines around the emerald eyes that had n't been there last time he saw her . |
| 15 | The black paint on the body was already peeling from the heat , though the Doctor guessed from the depth of the dust layer that it had n't been there more than a couple of days . |
| 16 | I had n't been there ten minutes when the bailiff came , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Lots of people from the restaurants park down here in the evening , but I only just realized , talking to my wife , that it had actually been there all day as well . |
| 18 | ‘ Head boy ’ in the school of ‘ 93 is opener Stephen Mann , one of the longest-serving players with the Section Three club — even though he 's only been there three years ! |
| 19 | Ye know it not , and ye have not been there any more than we ’ . |
| 20 | I can build a I 've only been there , I have n't been there three years . |