Example sentences of "they [vb past] [be] there for " in BNC.
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1 | They 'd been there for more than fifteen years . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | They had been there for six months , the duration of their marriage . |
4 | Although he did n't know them , he could have sworn they had been there for the past hour . |
5 | Diamonds and rare jewels were strewn across the floor as if they had been there for millennia . |