Example sentences of "[pers pn] be there [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably had I been there at the point of commissioning I would not have chosen that story . |
| 2 | ‘ Although I 'm there on the wall , it 's not me . |
| 3 | If it comes to light that I was in that house with Adam and the others , he thought with cold clarity , if someone tells the papers , or the police and thence the papers , that I was there during the summer of 1976 , living there , it will be all up with me . |
| 4 | I was there as the arbitrator , supplying the breakfast . |
| 5 | She said : ‘ I was there at the accident just after it happened . |
| 6 | ‘ I know because I was there at the time . ’ |
| 7 | But er , I did n't believe in , well it was me dad 's pigs of course , but I was there at the time as well like , you know . |
| 8 | I was there at the time . ’ |
| 9 | I was there until the end of the first war , what some people called the Great War , anyway , the first war that 'd be ni and I was there until nineteen nineteen . |
| 10 | So yes , I was there throughout the desert march and at the storming of the hive now called the Skull . ’ |
| 11 | " I was there in the gorse . " |
| 12 | I was there in the gorse , Stephen . |
| 13 | " The next thing is , sir , I was there in the gorse again . |
| 14 | How long have you been there at the nursing home ? |
| 15 | Erm straight into the city centres of most major cities so you er if you travel by train you 're there in the centre if that 's where you want to be . |
| 16 | Then France was mentioned , and he said something ordinary , like you can always tell you 're there from the smell of the place , how you could tell even if you were blindfold . |
| 17 | Should n't you be there with the dawn chorus , knocking on the door , to strike while the iron 's hot ? ’ |
| 18 | When you said you were at Acre you were there with the King . |
| 19 | We have cousins in Provence and she is there at the moment . |
| 20 | She is there in the tone of voice : ‘ My corner shop sells wrapped , sliced white loaves that , at a pinch , could poultice a wound . ’ |
| 21 | She is there in the honesty of her perceptions , which are not secondhand , not filched from others . |
| 22 | Nails had hoped Biddy would have foregone her offer to meet him out of school the next day , or at least be late so that he would have a chance of escaping her clutches , but when he came out she was there outside the gate on her motor-bike , and there was no escaping . |
| 23 | She was there with the warmth , sympathy and understanding that few others could offer . |
| 24 | She was there for the reception and for the lunch . |
| 25 | He 'd thought her a little too old for his own purposes , but always assumed she was there for the taking . |
| 26 | She would n't the beginning , no she was there in the beginning . |
| 27 | No she was there in the beginning with a , , then she left and , she had been married three years . |
| 28 | The way in which some of the subsidies work is ludicrous , but had we been there at the beginning , we might have been able to reform it so that it could work to our advantage . |
| 29 | Well I never took that er er as a stance erm bearing in mind that er we were there as the bulwarks to defend the interests of the membership in general . |
| 30 | Yeah , cos we was there in the August , they were n't , we moved in , in the July , there , and the girls were , Matthew was just four , cos just as we moved in our dad took Matthew to Hungary with him , it was like , it was like they were going on the following Wednesday , and he told me on the Friday , he came in on the Friday night , they planned , it was our dad , Crystal and Danielle , Crystal and Danielle , but she said even if I go out in the middle of . |