Example sentences of "he [verb] be there for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been there for some time . |
| 2 | His body was cold-I think he 'd been there for hours . ’ |
| 3 | He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see . |
| 4 | She was coldly angry now that he should so calmly assume that what he desired was there for him to take . |
| 5 | He had been there for an hour and a half . |
| 6 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |
| 7 | He had been there for almost two weeks now , visiting Uncle Lionel . |
| 8 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | He 's been there for weeks and I could have done the whole thing in a couple of days . |