Example sentences of "[be] there [prep] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you did n't have to go there or be there at a certain time . |
| 2 | ‘ She told the doctor at the orphanage , ‘ If I 'm going to go to England for a short time I must be careful not to give too much of my love , but if I 'm going to be there for a long time I can give all the love I can ’ , ’ Mike says . |
| 3 | If I was outside , she said she could telephone me every day for nothing , if I gave her the number of a phone box and arranged to be there for a certain time … |
| 4 | She felt as if she were not really there , as if she had not really been there for a long time . |
| 5 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |
| 6 | Er although most people think it 's been there for a long time , it has n't . |
| 7 | The social dimension of the Community has been there for a long time . |
| 8 | " Signs of a coming plateau have been there for a long time and are now getting better and better " , according to independent consultant Richard Kimberlin . |
| 9 | I mean these have n't just been put here , they 've been there for a long time ! |
| 10 | It 's their intention to leave the boat station there , but as a boat hiring station only , and to let rent that to somebody , not to have boat building enterprises , not to have a car park , not to have a chandlery and so on which was put there by the person whose who used to own it , and we will recoup all of that money from renting that boat station so it can be run as a boat hiring station again , and from three or four of the moorings that are will have been there for a long time , with proper permission . |
| 11 | ‘ I was there for a long time , but I ca n't remember anyone visiting me . |