Example sentences of "they [verb] be there for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been there for more than fifteen years . |
| 2 | Mhm cos they 've been there for ages have n't they Mary do n't you think ? |
| 3 | But they 've been there for twenty years on that spot . |
| 4 | See look at all those cross pieces , they look as they 've been there for some purpose , you know ? |
| 5 | I mean these have n't just been put here , they 've been there for a long time ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They had been there for six months , the duration of their marriage . |
| 8 | Although he did n't know them , he could have sworn they had been there for the past hour . |
| 9 | Diamonds and rare jewels were strewn across the floor as if they had been there for millennia . |
| 10 | They are there ; they have been there for years . |
| 11 | Rocks look more natural if you bed them into the gravel slightly , as if they have been there for years . |
| 12 | No footings were laid — the walls were built directly on the patio paving stones ; they have been there for years and I thought there was little chance of them subsiding . |
| 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 . |