Example sentences of "[verb] [be] there in the " in BNC.

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1 The simple fact of the matter is that we should never have been there in the first place .
2 I know , you would n't have been there in the first place .
3 Most may have been there in the pre-Norman period , although whether as fully developed villages or not will be discussed below .
4 My thoughts the leaf stem should never have been there in the first place it was a waste of money .
5 Of course , if I 'd really had any sense I would n't have been there in the first place .
6 Could n't possibly have been there in the old days .
7 Well it is three hundred and twenty thousand pound that they 're paying to this person that should not have been there in the first place , he walked on there , he built places there without planning permission and I think if the council had played their cards right , they could have got him off without paying out this three hundred twenty thousand pound .
8 And , personally , I mean , I know , having been there in the evening in that hall , it 's , it 's not very easy to hire it out , but it 's freezing still .
9 And , most of all , Trent would like to have known why the photograph he had taken from Don Roberto 's house had been there in the first place .
10 But it was only as a last resort in 1120 that the community committed itself to , and based its case upon , the expedient of introducing into existing documents the necessary phrases , which — if they had been there in the days of Lanfranc or Anselm — would have given their case a firm basis in papal documents .
11 Going back along the ditch and down beside the house , she tried to convince herself that no one would have heard her love-shriek , but she was already frightened that they had , and when she tiptoed into the scullery and crossed to her straw pallet in the corner , her fear increased tenfold , for she was immediately certain that the blanket had been moved and that someone had been there in the scullery only minutes before .
12 He had been there in the palace at Tongjiang with her , and still he had not visited her bed .
13 Ibrahim rather doubted it had been there in the first place . ’
14 but erm yes the garden 's alright but then they 've been there in the garden all the winter as well
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