Example sentences of "[was/were] there at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once we were there at the same time . |
| 2 | The other powers did n't like it — they wanted Britain to get out of Egypt — but so long as the fiction could be maintained that the British were there at the express request of the Egyptian sovereign , there was not much they could do about it . |
| 3 | We work with about 60 women a year , and I know many of them would genuinely say that at the start they were unemployable , that they could have gone back to drugs , ended up back in prison , but they did n't because Clean Break was there at the right time for them , to give them the opportunities they needed . |
| 4 | Elaborate preparations had been made for a meeting between the two kings at Gloucester : King Malcolm was there at the appointed time , but Rufus refused to see him , and the two parted , in the Chronicler 's words ‘ in great enmity ’ . |
| 5 | She was there at the departmental conference and he included her in the general nod and smile as he entered the executive producer 's office , but his eyes were guarded , and not just on her account . |
| 6 | ‘ And they were there and nobody was there at the same time ! ’ says Derry . |