Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] here for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it has been grown here for more than a century , the low-growing variety A. dioicus Kneiffii is , surprisingly , less well known . |
| 2 | ‘ The tackle from behind has been stopped here for a long time , but they were doing it all night and getting away with it . |
| 3 | Hardly a fish has been caught here for three weeks but the birds had had roach and dace up to 8 oz . |
| 4 | A party from the Ordnance Survey left after having been stationed here for the last six months . |
| 5 | She knew about Cormac of the Wolves , her great-grandfather , who had been exiled here for five years , and she knew about the others as well : Niall of the Nine Hostages , caught and chained and kept prisoner with nine faithful Lords until he broke out and regained the Throne . |
| 6 | I have been lost here for eight years . ’ |
| 7 | said I 've got a guy that 's been stood here for an hour , do n't know what to do with him . . |
| 8 | Nothing 's been changed here for ninety years , ’ the barman told me . |