Example sentences of "[be] [verb] there [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cloth could have been placed there half an hour or so later . ’ |
| 2 | Barry Moxton had been lurking there all the time , just below the surface of his consciousness , waiting to spring out at him . |
| 3 | He 's been sat there all day like a stuffed dummy , then he suddenly comes to life , grabs the dinner and runs off with it trailing between his legs , tripping and stumbling over it in his anxiety to have it all to himself . |
| 4 | I 've been sat there all evening nobody 's eaten it so I thought I might as well get on and eat it |
| 5 | The Luna Café on Soviet Boulevard faces the gardens and the old Liberation monument that had been built there several régimes back and — so it is said — was something of a milestone in municipal graft . |
| 6 | Many people say that near Frankenhausen in Thuringia is a mountain in which Frederick Barbarossa may be found … he has been seen there many times . |
| 7 | Something had been waiting there all my life . |
| 8 | In Spain , in the later 1780s , the foreign minister , Count Floridablanca , began attaching youths in their late teens to missions abroad to be given there some grounding in diplomatic skills : this again does not appear to have gone very far . |
| 9 | Dublin is no exception and , as luck would have it , the most important event to be happening there this year is an artistic one : the opening of the Irish Museum of Modern Art ( IMMA ) . |
| 10 | We , we , we were supposed to be going there this year , we had it booked up and every thing , we lost our hundred pound deposit . |
| 11 | Labour MPs Rhodri Morgan , Keith Vaz , James Wray and Jimmy Hood can be found there most weeks . |
| 12 | It was the only Courtaulds region to lift its profits last year and a hatful of new trading ventures will be launched there this year . |
| 13 | A roll-out is expected on the West Coast in either San Francisco or around San Jose , California , near the time of the Xhibition X-Windows show which will be held there that week . |
| 14 | Since the lease on the Cooking Centre expires in October and tables and chairs belonging to the Village Hall are stored there some new location will have to be found . |
| 15 | She had seen so many of the students set out from her door , awkward and anxious , and after a few weeks it was as if they had been studying there all their lives . |
| 16 | I felt as if I 'd been sitting there half the night . |
| 17 | At its peak some 12,000 innocents were gassed there each day . |
| 18 | You know they were coming there this week and they would n't come there for three or four weeks or something , thinking with this picket but it was very important to keep that gate , stop everybody from going in there . |
| 19 | They were filming there this week . |
| 20 | The free landing place , by the bridge , is frequently used by pleasure boats , particularly in the summer , with a gala being held there each year . |
| 21 | Consuelo ca n't carry on all day , when she 's stayed there all night . |
| 22 | He 's worked there all his life , starting with your father . |
| 23 | The flat , known in 1978 as a Red Brigades hideout , had been extensively searched at the time by all the security services , and it was suggested that the letters might have been planted there more recently to embarrass the government , particularly Andreotti ( now Prime Minister again ) and Cossiga ( Interior Minister in 1978 ) , who had held out against negotiating with the Red Brigades . |
| 24 | The , the idea have been planted there any way . |
| 25 | Perhaps , thought , they 're people who have been working there all their lives ? |
| 26 | But for weeks you know it was parked there all day and very often at nighttime . |
| 27 | I said to though , he said she was going there another way ! |
| 28 | A and , we it , well that that takes us back to er , to what I think , either er Tom or Jim was saying there that you know , if you 're paying into something yo you you expect to er , to get out of it when and if you need it . |
| 29 | All through the pregnancy I felt special , then suddenly all my friends did n't want to know me , only one friend , Karen , and she made me feel worse , as she was so glamorous and I was sitting there all fat . |
| 30 | I was sitting there all dressed up , waiting . ’ |