Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] there [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barry Moxton had been lurking there all the time , just below the surface of his consciousness , waiting to spring out at him . |
| 2 | Something had been waiting there all my life . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I felt as if I 'd been sitting there half the night . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They were filming there this week . |
| 9 | Perhaps , thought , they 're people who have been working there all their lives ? |
| 10 | I said to though , he said she was going there another way ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I was sitting there all dressed up , waiting . ’ |
| 14 | While he was sitting there this morning . |