Example sentences of "[was/were] there for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1985 in Washington DC I was responsible for the security co-ordination of eleven prime ministers and twenty other Conservative party leaders from around the world who were there for the International Democrat Union Party Leaders ' meeting . |
| 2 | We went there morning and evening every day , and on Sundays we were there for the lengthy session of Sung Eucharist . |
| 3 | Linford was there for the first time . |
| 4 | Jack seemed to realise she was there for the first time . |
| 5 | This year , FOX F M was there for the first time and Phil Angel managed to catch Dr John Howard to explain what it all meant . |
| 6 | I was there for the full week , being lucky enough to have a brother living in Crosby , so was able to take in most of the events and sights of interest , as well as having the pleasure of meeting old comrades at the Cunard Building |
| 7 | And what basis was there for the seventh-century maxim that ‘ the Celtic Church brings love while the Roman Church brings law ’ ? |
| 8 | The ideological basis was there for the fundamental divides which the war , defeat , and revolution openly exposed , and which provided the Weimar Republic from its inception with an extremely weak base of legitimation , especially among the bourgeoisie and élites . |