Example sentences of "have be here for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's married a Welsh girl , has two Welsh kids and has been here for five years . |
| 2 | If the adventurers ask about the Oracle himself , he will give only the barest of details ; that he is a seer into the future , a servant to his master ( Drachenfels ) , and he has been here for — he ca n't remember how long . |
| 3 | The same family has closed it 's delicatessen which has now become an art shop and the butcher whose family has been here for 176 years , closes this weekend . |
| 4 | Today people spend their money more evenly and the standard of hospitality has improved This unit has been here for ten years and can take 350 people , it 's well established . |
| 5 | ‘ The fishery has been here for over 400 years , so we want to make sure we maintain it for future generations , ’ said Mr Horne . |
| 6 | Manager Sue Surrey is seen here being presented with the southern regional quarterly audit prize by Eugene Kertzman and CCG client Ewart Wooldridge , and she has no doubt about the reason : ‘ CCG has been here for 12 years , myself for the last seven , and you can put our success down to working together as a team . |
| 7 | Your fax has been here for about a week now , I 'll bring it down for you . |
| 8 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 9 | They were a striking couple — tall , slim and very , very pale against old hands who 'd been here for days or even weeks . |
| 10 | He 'd been here for forty-odd years , so he was the chap behind me , if you like . |
| 11 | She wished he could have been here for Christmas . |
| 12 | I should have been here for you a long time ago . |
| 13 | ‘ If it were obvious , we would n't have been here for five years trying to find it , and Paula would still be … . |
| 14 | All the time yes , apart from say about six weeks , used to come in in the winter to repair the do maintenance on the dredger and then the old harbourmaster would say right , we should have been here for six weeks , he come after a month , he 'd say , paint the cover the rust up he said and bugger off out again . |
| 15 | She and Tom must have been here for quite a long time , then . |
| 16 | I seem to have been here for ages . ’ |
| 17 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 18 | She had been here for twenty minutes , during which time Alida Thorne had backtracked and made difficulties , pretended not to understand . |
| 19 | Now that we had been here for nearly seven weeks , we were beginning to wonder if the final climax would ever take place at all . |
| 20 | Whatever the precise date , she knew she had been here for the best part of a month , confined in this tumbledown shepherd 's dwelling among the mountains . |
| 21 | If no one had been here for years , why did she fancy she could smell cigarette smoke ? |
| 22 | There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time . |
| 23 | If the hon. and learned Member for Burton ( Mr. Lawrence ) had been here for the speech of my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) |
| 24 | I 've been here for some time . |
| 25 | I 've been here for about a week now . ’ |
| 26 | I 've been here for years and this is the first conversation I 've had with a human for simply ages . |
| 27 | God Almighty , Nan , I 've been here for the past two hours without knowing hair nor hide of you . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ But we 've been here for thousands of years ! |
| 29 | She said , ‘ I 've been here for three weeks , I have n't seen one movie star until now , ’ and she came over and got my autograph . |
| 30 | We 've been here for six months . |