Example sentences of "have been there [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two long-serving ministers , Dr Brian Mawhinney , who has been there since 1986 , and Mr Richard Needham , since 1985 , both return to senior posts in mainland ministries . |
| 2 | The cricket pitch has been there for thirty five years . |
| 3 | It has been there for two weeks and can not be released because the 3,500 troops promised by the United Nations to secure food convoys and get them moving have not arrived . |
| 4 | She has been there for two years . |
| 5 | ‘ People say the earth must be sour , but it has been there for eighteen years and still grows plants . |
| 6 | The carpet has been there for three years and is still in good condition — the only signs of wear are the marks left by ‘ wee Lachie ’ , the Stewarts ' three-year-old son . |
| 7 | It has been there in one form or another since Anglo-Saxon times , probably the first building being of wood . |
| 8 | He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see . |
| 9 | He 'd been there for some time . |
| 10 | I mean , you were n't even sure she 'd been there at all . ’ |
| 11 | You got half an hour plus ten minutes relief for your refreshments and that would happen at ten in the morning and you 'd been there since seven . |
| 12 | And I 'd been there from six in the morning till quarter to nine . |
| 13 | Once I got in well hungover at four in the afternoon when I should have been there at 11 . |
| 14 | Pumpido had to make two saves while neither of the Italians need have been there at all . |
| 15 | At the very genesis of all feeling and awareness one thought held sway which should not really have been there at all : that to be grown-up , to be a man , meant losing a great part of me . |
| 16 | The first thing that strikes me is that my aunt — an almost complete stranger as far as I was concerned — should have been there at all , within the family circle where no friend or neighbour was allowed , and thus in a privileged position to make personal remarks of the type which would not have been tolerated from any other quarter . |
| 17 | But you had to remember the circumstances they were there under — they should never have been there at all . |
| 18 | This was like quarter to twelve , he should have been there at eleven o'clock . |
| 19 | Aye you 'd have been there in thirty nine . |
| 20 | He 's supposed to have been there at half past nine ! |
| 21 | He was first on with his presentation , and had been there since six-thirty to make sure there were no slip-ups with his slide presentation . |
| 22 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 25 | ‘ He had been there for two nights , sinking deeper and deeper , ’ but the troops , obsessed by their own suffering , passed by without so much as casting a glance at the wretched beast . |
| 26 | Thirty-six of these families ( 44 per cent ) had lived in Wigston for at least a century and fifteen or sixteen ( 20 per cent ) had been there for 200 years or more . |
| 27 | Then at the hotel , he was recognized and before we had been there for five minutes Radio Gibraltar was down to interview him . |
| 28 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 29 | ‘ I ca n't begin to say what I think about these people who stole the plaque and the names of the servicemen which had been there for forty-eight years . ’ |
| 30 | We also have the Castle Court development , complete with massive subsidies from the British government , which was built on the backs of the Smithfield traders , some of whom had been there for fifty years and whose original conception of a shopping complex run by local people was hijacked . |