Example sentences of "[was/were] there for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They were there for a good couple of hours and when I left at around 2.00pm they were still interviewing players in the spare dressing rooms . ’ |
| 2 | They were there for a motoring festival , with more than two hundred million pounds worth of classic cars on show . |
| 3 | They were there for the convenience of rail passengers . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We went there morning and evening every day , and on Sundays we were there for the lengthy session of Sung Eucharist . |
| 6 | Ill omens were there for the taking . |
| 7 | A good many were there for the fun , rather than any dedication to the anti-Fascist cause . |
| 8 | Black Babies were there for the saving . |
| 9 | Well , disappointment for Oxford United ; Charlton were there for the taking , United let them off the hook . |
| 10 | Bill Tear was there for every day of the three week hearing . |
| 11 | Baird was there for a further two years before leaving in 1987 with chef Barry Forster , who had been offered the position of head chef at Longueville Manor on Jersey . |
| 12 | ‘ I was there for a while , ’ she said pointedly but she was careful not to press too much . |
| 13 | You knew for a fact that anyone in that world was there for a genuine reason , either because he could n't get a job doing anything else — which was probably the best reason — or for the love of it . |
| 14 | With all the RAF stations in England for him to be sent to , he had actually been sent to Bourn and was there for a couple of months . |
| 15 | Yet what alternative was there for a female orator ? |
| 16 | ‘ I was there for a long time , but I ca n't remember anyone visiting me . |
| 17 | So a week later I moved in , and I was there for a year-and-a-half . |
| 18 | I mean that 's that 's one of his stock in trades he 's a superb volleyer of the ball and it was there for a second with a chance was there for a second . |
| 19 | I mean that 's that 's one of his stock in trades he 's a superb volleyer of the ball and it was there for a second with a chance was there for a second . |
| 20 | The possibility was there for a tremendous finish . |
| 21 | So then when I got back to erm er St Giles erm I was there for a month and then I went into a home for the blind and handicapped |
| 22 | But I wa but I was there for a fortnight and when I came back I , you know it 's preparing for Synod just takes all the time we have somehow and I |
| 23 | He 'd thought her a little too old for his own purposes , but always assumed she was there for the taking . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And for thousands it represented a real land of opportunity where the sun shone and the good life was there for the taking . |
| 26 | Linford was there for the first time . |
| 27 | If this was the likeliest prospect for a major resettlement , what chance was there for the re-emigration of the Kindertransporte ? |
| 28 | Jack seemed to realise she was there for the first time . |
| 29 | The whole world , the whole of society was there for the comedians to plunder . |
| 30 | The Ukraine 's first ‘ modern ’ computer-integrated manufacturing centre , using a broad range of equipment from IBM Corp , has been inaugurated in Kiev at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute , and while it was there for the ceremonies , IBM took the opportunity of establishing a Representative Office in Kiev , the first to be established outside Moscow in the former Soviet Union . |