Example sentences of "[was/were] there [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They were there for the convenience of rail passengers . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We went there morning and evening every day , and on Sundays we were there for the lengthy session of Sung Eucharist . |
| 5 | Ill omens were there for the taking . |
| 6 | A good many were there for the fun , rather than any dedication to the anti-Fascist cause . |
| 7 | Black Babies were there for the saving . |
| 8 | Well , disappointment for Oxford United ; Charlton were there for the taking , United let them off the hook . |
| 9 | Some may find the external colours of the dome surprising , but apparently these reds , blues and creams are faithful to the colours that were there at the end of the 17C . |
| 10 | ‘ We have a number of differing accounts from the people who were there at the time . |
| 11 | In addition to fully appreciating the significance and context of much of the material they wanted to use , pupils also intended to create new material themselves by acting roles as if they were there at the time . |
| 12 | Once we were there at the same time . |
| 13 | The Society has displayed confidence in the contributors by printing their nostalgic talk verbatim and the result is a fascinating account of the town in the earlier part of this century , through the voices of the men and women who were there at the time . |
| 14 | The other powers did n't like it — they wanted Britain to get out of Egypt — but so long as the fiction could be maintained that the British were there at the express request of the Egyptian sovereign , there was not much they could do about it . |
| 15 | hard on the heels of wimbledon comes another British institution and that 's the Royal Rowing Regatta at Henley … the women were there at the weekend and that 's where we start our roundup |
| 16 | When you said you were at Acre you were there with the King . |
| 17 | On the second day of the hearing when the reasons were given the parties ' legal representatives were there with the exception of the representative of the guardian ad litem . |
| 18 | Millions poured on to the streets of London on 29 July 1981 to be able to say they were there on the day , to tell their children and grandchildren what it was like . |
| 19 | What detailed changes were there during the period when D was formed ? |
| 20 | because no white people were there during the hot weather . |
| 21 | All the ones you 've mentioned were there except the one of Delia Forbes . ’ |
| 22 | I believe that truths which were there from the beginning in the Christian faith can lie dormant until the social and psychological conditions are right for them to be perceived . |
| 23 | Truths which were there from the beginning in the Christian faith can lie dormant until the social and psychological conditions are right for them to be perceived . |
| 24 | A traveller or two , pedlars and shepherds , were persuaded to join the few hundred who were there by the weight of glowering disapproval from dozens of faces when they showed signs of passing by . |
| 25 | Thus , at Appleton le Moors the very regular two rows of the village were there by the fourteenth century , replacing the two earlier settlements of Appleton and Baschebi . |
| 26 | His pride was shared by the rest of the family who were there in the front pews behind them — Hana , with little Jitka in her arms , Uncle Mick , who looked so much older all of a sudden , Carmella , who was much the same , but Joey had lost a lot of his old sunny quality and slumped sullenly in his place . |
| 27 | How many MPs were there in the House of Commons in 1991 with the surname Marshall ? |
| 28 | She did not actually concentrate on the birds which happened to be there , nor did she feel any desire to feel them or encourage them to come near her — but she was quite able to relax knowing that they were there in the background . |
| 29 | The purist bookman wants his book complete with the half-titles , if they were there in the first place , and it is an appreciable demerit mark if the cataloguer has to confess ‘ lacking half-titles ’ or ‘ volume III without half-title ’ , even though they are present in the other two . |
| 30 | Randolph Churchill and Arthur Brittenden were there in the media vanguard . |