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"Everywhere we went, it seemed as if Air China had been there the day before, " says Li Fenghua, chairman of China Eastern.

I thought I saw Silvia with a man in the nightclub but she swears black and blue that she's never been there.

There has always been a sort of been-there, done-that sense about Jackson's career since he began collecting titles in Chicago.

Stop and think what you might have done had you been there in jail for Christ's sake.

He did not know how long he had been there; some hours at any rate; with no clocks and no daylight it was hard to gauge the time.

But we always give a dog a look at a track if it has not been there before, unless that dog is a brilliant beginner like Elite Blue Size.

And if it is part of your nature it must be serving something very essential, otherwise it would not have been there at all.

I've heard this place, but I've never been there. For many, a hobby is a means of expressing their creativity.

He talked about Japan as if he had been there many times.

He talked about the Great Wall as if he had been there before.

There was now a large mirror at the end of the room . I was sure that it had not been there before .

i ' ve not been there yet , although i have driven past it a few times , and it looks like a great arena for football.

But after I'd been there a few months I realized that what I'd been unconsciously hoping to find there was back in the place I'd just left.

He pointed at his neck, then pointed at me, as if to say, "It's been there always, only you didn't notice. "

He talked about China as if he had been there.

But I am her sister, her blood, and I should have been there for her straight from the beginning.

He said: "My family have been there from the word go, from my parents through to my boys and Victoria now. "

He aroused a force of feeling in her which had not previously been there.

The first lady said her mother pushes her to be the best woman, mother and professional she can be, and has always been there for her.

Some years ago I took a freighter from San Francisco to Japan, and I had never been there, it was the early '80's.

Miss Bertram, displeased with her sister, led the way, and all seemed to feel that they had been there long enough.

I'd long been interested in Tibet and had a romantic vision of the Land of Snows, but I'd never been there.

It was a look-out built for the public, but I had the feeling that no one had been there for years, certainly no tourist.

I suppose if I had been there to look for issues, I could have found some.

But then I was struck by sadness to think of the death of my son - if he was alive, he would have been there to celebrate.

It was a very expensive city. Before we had been there a week, we had spent all the money.

He felt as if he had been there before.

As he had never been there before, he found a great deal to interest him.

I wish you had been there, my dear, to have given him one of your set downs. I quite detest the man.

He talked about Paris as if he had been there.

as i walked across the short stone bridge over the narrow moat and headed towards the entrance , it struck me that i had been there before.

The staff informed me that she had been there for over a month and had not spoken the entire time.

One location that you hope to go on this adventure: I would love to visit Brazil because I've never been there.

He would have been there by now if had not missed the train.

He feels responsible for her fall into the well, convinced that it would not have happened if he had been there.

One evening the old farmer decided to go down to the pond, to look it over, as he hadn't been there for a while.

I wish I could have been there with you to watch it.

She'd been there almost a week and I hadn't made it in to see her.

I do not know what would have happened if she had not been there.

No doubt somebody would have noticed if she hadn't been there; she was part of the performance, after all.

and blushed to think how much truer a knowledge of his character had been there shewn than any she had reached herself.

He speaks to us as if he had been there.

The speed had always been there, and now he was stronger, and he could dunk . His hands had gotten much bigger, Smith noticed.

He talks about Rome as if he had been there before.

Run your car off the side of the road. Get stuck in a ditch way out in the middle of nowhere (well, man, I've been there).

Inside was a sfogliatelle, the dessert he would have ordered if he had been there.

I've been there a few times with The Rogue Transmission then The Fever Machine, and it always left me with a good impression.

He said he had never been there, but he was lying.

But the eidetic spark of mutual attraction had been there for the first five years of his marriage and had only gradually faded.

When you get when you see pictures of my dad, Dad in your . . . remember, Dad has always been there for you.

In some families, new adults and kids seem to slip in effortlessly, as though they have been there all along.

The disease could have been there for weeks, but the true nature of the spread in those countries may take some time to emerge.

'At Thrushcross Grange, ' he answered; 'and I would have been there too, but they had not the manners to ask me to stay. '

He described the scene as if he had been there.

She, too, reacted with longing in her voice. "I're never been there, " she said, and "I're always wanted to go. "

My grandfather told me that this tailor's shop had been there since I was young.

8When Isaac had been there a long time, it happened that Abimelech, looking out of a window, saw Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.

Joy has not been there long before Tao asks for her hand in marriage, Maoist style.

He burned the bodies of the bandits, and when that was done, it was almost as though she had never been there.

Tom is talking about China as if he had been there.

lecturer says that the condition is cruel unthinkable, as she had been there for some times.

He told me that she had been there for a while and that she was a victim of Alzheimer's Disease.

See if you find out where i can get ticket to fly, or you take me to YW or HZ, I never been there, maybe go check out some things.

shadow of a rock there was a figure that had not been there before.

Susan will be in London next week. -I've never been there.

This time we have qualified as the only non-English team, and in the last 20 years we have always been there; it makes me very proud.

Maybe, it all depends on timing and if I'm playing. But I would really like to see chinas since I have never been there.

If I don't get enough sleep, I feel that exhaustion and freak out a little. I've been there and don't want to go back.

And certainly not Peter. He had not been there up to this time either.

I've never been there before, I bet they have all sort of neat stuff to see and cool things to do.

He's obviously been there before, but he said he'd never been there before.

The boy did not go down. He had been there before and one of the fishermen was looking after the skiff for him.

To them , my experience and example were as remote as if I had never lived or been there .

He talked as if(as though) he had been there before.

Lee: I've never been there before, you see, and I hear it's very beautiful.

If the doctor had not been there, all the poor babies would have died.

It was as though the song had been there all the time and he knew it and aroused it.

Once a year, go someplace you've never been there.

She's always there for me and she's always been there. -You're 23 now, so we're thinking that you will be swimming in London, then, right?

Ring angry like to tell the donor had, in fact it has always been there, hidden in a corner.

The Ghanaian is in his second season at Stamford Bridge and his value to the squad has been there for all to see.

Renee Bowman said the bodies were her two adopted daughters and they'd been there for at least seven months.

If you feel that I've described you, don't feel discouraged. I've been there too, and can contest that it is possible to quiet down.

he had never been there himself , had only read about the " city of sin " in paperback novels and seen it on prime - time tv.

The next day I passed that way again, and lo! the hand of the despoiler had been there.

The last five months have been a rollercoaster but he's been there for me and has helped get me through it.

I've been there with him to speak and he's a very good person.

S: Oh, yeah, your men, your men have been able to count on you. Why is it that you've never been there for me?

Hundreds had been there all night to get a good place in the queue.

He got lost, again, on his way to the cafeteria, even though he'd been there a few hours earlier.

Pacheco is out to impress during a week with the first team - and Benayoun has been there to offer help and advice.

You've always been there for her--you've always been the one who could reach her.

Beautiful and clever. . . I'm subjugated . If I'd known you were replacing your brother, I'd've been there to greet you.

The next morning she walked among her flowers, but there were no signs of any one having been there the night before.

He was proud to have been there at the beginning, helping to craft constitutional principles from the outset.

Finally we are free. Thanks to all the family and friends who have been there along the way, it's been a good five years.

said the two old statesmen who had been there before. 'Your Majesty must admire the colours and the pattern.

Where one of the figures had been there was something dreadful. He blacked out.

When I think about you, Dad, I think of your smile, of the times when you have been there to talk for a while. Happy birthday!

He had never been there, but he had seen it, once, on a Hudson Bay Company chart.

He said that his father had been there three days before, but he was not there then.

C: No, I've never been there. But I know it by newspapers that the Olympic Games were held at Sapporo.

Reddy had never been there before and he didn't know just what to make of it.

Just like I had been there. There was no blur. Everything was so clear, so not a feeling like in dream.

The city's vendor contracts, expense reports and various other things have already been there for about a year.

Quantum theory might be able to tell you where an electron is, but it can't tell you how long it's been there.

Towards the end of supper, Marguerite was taken with a fit of coughing much stronger than any she had had while I had been there.

Everybody who was around then, and had been there, and knew about it knew that it was a failed state .

If his boy had not been there, I would have been sitting in front.

Getting out of this war was the main thing - we've been there, what, five or six years?

If Tom's boy had not been there I would have been sitting in front.

You know so much about the city . You must have been there .

Had I been there, I would have filmed the occasion. = If I had been there, I would have filmed the occasion.

He's been there for me my whole life, and the year I got married, I wanted to do something extra for him on Father's Day.

"I was shocked, " he said. He hadn't known China had even been there.

He had never been there before. You never can be sure.

Hilarious, since I had been there half an hour before and there was hardly any breakfast left at all.

And through it all, through every struggle, the game has always been there. It has never left me alone.

Don't even think about asking for a raise until you've been there a year or more.

He swore on his reputation that he had not been there.

Circulation of our business has always been there to do business in Germany, a traditional virtue of honesty.

Now let me show you around the golf course. We have been there before.

She told me that Dad had been there and that they had talked for a long time.

Now that you've been there yourself, when you think of China, what's the first image that comes into your head?

Jim: I don't think I say this enough, but I want to thank you for your kindness and patience. You've always been there for me.

This seems to have been there to stay!

I'm looking forward to seeing New York. I've never been there, but I have always wanted to go.

When you have a problem that feels big or have been there for a longtime then it's easy to think that you need a complicated solution.

That openness to a new friend might not have been there if I had already been traveling with someone else.

They said that they had been there for a year.

It's actually been there all along, but astronomers have only now spotted what could be the seventh closest star system to the sun.

The clues had been there from the start , when the crew of Apollo 8 became the first humans to leave their home planet's orbit.

Jenny: I wish I could have been there with you.

Once you've been there a while, you learn that certain things are profitable, and no contact is the first rule you learn to break.

His mother would hear he had been there, of course, and might think it funny.

Arguing that it is too expensive and that the United States has already been there, President Obama has pushed for its cancellation.

The nurse was a substitute who had not been there long.

Having been there many times ( = As he had been there many times ), he offered to introduce the country.

She had never been there before.

The tide of patronage dropped a little below what it had been at its best since he had been there.

Some of the older families had been there since the Civil War and became Republicans because they were against secession and slavery.

Thankfully, he wasn't hurt, but he never should have been there in the first place.

Metrorrhagia? Sorry, baby. I should have been there for you and our baby son.

A rutter was a small book containing the detailed observation of a pilot who had been there before.

I wish I could have been there with you. I am not a smart man, but I know what is love. ---Forrest Gump.

He had been there often, during a whole year, and had always been the same moody and morose lounger there.

People keep looking for peace-of-mind, but it has always been there, never need any searching.

I wish I could have been there with you. Your were Jenny, I am not a smart man, but I know what is love.

"Throughout the last four decades, the Siren has been there through it all, " CEO Howard Schultz said in a statement.

Despite the fact that he had been there twice, he failed to find the place.

But they have a strong squad. I have never been there and had an easy game. It is a difficult place to go.

He was new to the town. He had never been there before.

We've all been there - in bed, desperate for sleep but unable to switch off the thoughts running through our heads.

You know, Albert was released from prison yesterday. He had been there for 10 years. Maybe he'll reform himself and make a fresh start.

I've not been left out of the squad since I've been there and it's great. I feel part of the team, part of the squad.

She said she knew Hefei very well because she had been there several times.

And say, If we had been there in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

And I wished it had been there when I'd done it the first time.

It is about seeing what has always been there, knowing what has always been true, and experiencing the Only Experience There Is.

You can see this for yourself on our website. You can zoom into any block on Manhattan, and see what might have been there 400 years ago.

His pitching coach had been there since 6 a. m. "I'm not leaving until I know my buddy is okay, " he said.

To leave the world a bit better by my having been there.

He said that his sister had been there three days before.

Well, this was a pity, but I would have been there due to sheer luck and not because of the car's good performance.

Maybe it was a feeling that you had been there before.

I guess there are many broken hearts in Casablanca. You know I've never really been there. so I don't know.

It also means that credit cards have always been there to fill the gap when we wanted a pair of shoes or a restaurant meal.

My Chinese band mates are thrilled at the prospect of performing in the U. S. ; only Woodie has been there, and he visited only Los Angeles.

Because there have been there, it is not possible than the right, but I believe that every country has people proud of.

We've been waiting for this moment for a very long time, thus we are happy to play there finally. We've never been there before.

Revolutionary tradition education has always been the feature tourism of Yanan, and Yanan Spirit has always been there.

John: How advanced the fountain was! If I were not busy last week, I would have been there too!

If he had been there, he would have helped you.

So I think as an industry, it has always been there in the fabric of the way we work.

She had never been there before starting the job!

Respect has always been there and I get along well with everyone.

If she had been there that night, she might have been hurt.

That instant of a European trip, deserted in the gray sea of wiped tape - is she closer now, or mor real, for his having been there?

Every one have a broken ridge in their mind, just you had not been there yet.

He had been there three times and had a lot of contacts with the famous poet GUO Xiang-zheng from the local place through his poems.

I know of the town but I've never been there.

Remember, the knowledge has always been there but it was kept hidden from you.

They don`t even have to have been there, but if they were, they understand even better.

I have never been there. but i think it must be a beautiful country.

As you've never been there before, I'll have someone show you the way.

you better believe I'll make room for the mother of the one loving creature who's always been there for me.

He'd only been there a week when his legs got nearly shot off and he became a passenger in the ambulance.

It turned out that he had never been there.

Had she been there, Diana would have lit up the gathering with her radiant blondeness.

If you've been there, you know what I'm talking about.

If I had been there, I would not have let him bully you.

he who understands his case, who want a lawyer sympathizes with him and who has been there himself.

Teal tugged on his arm. "Don't-" Then she looked down and noticed a fissure in the wall that hadn't been there before the tremor.

"We should never have been there in the first place, " he says of Afghanistan, to a constituent startled by his candour.

He was very happy because he had never been there before.

The madness of the banking sector obviously magnified these movements; but the fundamental forces would have been there anyway.

Let me get temp for the bus then, man. I been there for you.

He must have been there, or he never could know the place so well.

I lived in this small world , finding why I could hardly say that there was anything wrong with it since I have been there.

Porter You know all the years I have lived here I have not been there.

He had been there near 30 years and had taught biology every one of those years.

He had been there for two days with no Internet access and no acceptable food, living on white rice and Coke.

You have always been there for me, and I'll always be there for you. Happy Valentine's day.

He had never been there before.

He wished he were at home. Ordinarily , he would have been there three hours ago.

But, now that I remember, one of you has already been there, and can show the way.

A: No, I've never been there before . What's the best way to go there?

I've never been there before, but, erm, the scenery is marvelous.

Both sisters were invited to the party. Really, Mary shouldnot have been there, since she was far too young.

I'd asked her number, of course, and then fought hard not to obsess about the four boys who had "been there" before me.

And it must have been so for the others as well, or they would not have been there.

To leave the world a little better by my having been there.

I started my teaching career at the school. That was more than twenty years ago, and I have been there ever since.

No, I've never been there before. What's the best way to go there?

Some Australians thought I must have lived there for at least a few years when I have in fact been there for only six months!

And it was just an amazing experience to have been there to witness that.

After doing some online research and talking with people who'd been there, they decided to take the plunge.

You speak as if you had really been there.

It seems very strange that 'talents' have remained hidden for so long if they have, indeed, been there all the time.

A product of the Barcelona youth system, Xavi moved up to the senior team in 1998 and has been there ever since.

For those of you who've been there, fantastic coral reefs, fantastic diving, fantastic snorkeling.

Have you never been there ? No , you never can; and unluckily it is out of distance for a ride .

As to personnel [in the field], I told them that I had only been there three weeks and I only knew first names there also.

Wade had been there before, helping the United States win the gold medal at the Beijing Games in 2008.

We consider him to have been there many times.

i ' ll let you into a little secret ; i ' ve never even been there.

Well, you've probably been there, stomach viruses, nasty head colds, but how would you feel if you came down with a computer virus?

That post-box has always been there. You must have passed it many a time.

It's funny because when you haven't been there for a while, you get home, and you're wiped out.

The wall is pasted with some yellowish newspapers, which obviously have been there for years.

Our spontaneous reaction is to say: "Had I been there, I would have helped; what is wrong with these people? "

As flawed as the election may have been, there may be some cause for guarded optimism.

The answer had been there all of the time just out of reach.

The demand must always have been there, but it was invisible because no marketer thought to offer it.

I've been there and done that, and now I would like to share what I learned along the way.

I had never been there before.

Only few remember what life was before, and who's always been there even in the most painful situations.

Only few remember what life was before, and who has always been there in the most painful situations.

I had been there little more than a week when I set to work in earnest.

And in fact his commitment to violence had been there from the beginning.

He was in a purpose-built bunker and had been there for some time.

Our amazing EXPO pavilion is one of the reasons why Sebastian has been there three times!

Minority is not a concept that has ever been there. International law on minority protection is not achieved overnight.

Washington's been talking about our oil addiction for the last thirty years, and John McCain has been there for twenty-six of them.

But I wonder if we had been there if we would have heard any "thank You, dear Lord" prayers before they ate!

He talks about Rome as though he had been there himself.

I wish I could've been there with you.

Introduce a three-term limit. Some Italian parliamentarians have been there for longer than most of the furniture.

When she arrived at the house at the end of the day, weary and disheartened, she discovered that Drouet had been there.

One evening when I came home, it looked as if someone had been there, but nothing was missing.