Example sentences of "had been there for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It had been there for years — I played there myself as a child — but it was situated in the worst possible place . |
| 2 | Her new life at Usher started appropriately on January 1st One day in the office , and she understood the situation better than some of the staff who had been there for years . |
| 3 | I 'd been sexually abused and all of a sudden the poison that had been there for years started boiling to the surface . |
| 4 | There was no sign that anyone had been there for months . |
| 5 | Diamonds and rare jewels were strewn across the floor as if they had been there for millennia . |
| 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 . |