Example sentences of "[be] there [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If he had had his way , he would have stayed in Wilson 's house all day long and as it was managed to be there a good half of it .
2 With any luck he 'd still be there the following morning .
3 Well he 's been there a long while .
4 ‘ Even as a new MP , she has got a much better grounding in the way that the Treasury and Number 10 work than most MPs who 've been there a long time . ’
5 The eaves , most of which are round the Mull of Oa and the northeast corner of the island , have been there a long time but are almost unexplored and very little s known about them , There is evidence that those at Port a Chotain , near Bholsa , had been occupied in the 17th or early 18th century .
6 An example I quote is of two particular members of staff who had been there a long time , and so , when I walked into the staff room , they were in the same seats .
7 I I ca n't comment on on comments that you are referencing , however I will say that in Maryland er we displaced an incumbent vendor who had been there a long time , er that vendor was a bit upset as you might imagine with being displaced as a vendor , and in Maryland we had a situation that kind of evolved into the same kind of political row you would expect when a company loses a long time business .
8 And wheeling them to the ship you know , then after you 'd been there a long time , well my father was a down below and I went to his shop then you see .
9 The other people that have been there a long time know it all and what they , what you say can you help me .
10 It shows how well we are conducting the service , in what is an old bedding factory , after all , and if you 've been to Winchester lately , you will have seen a six million pound record office , with with modern architecture in a prominent position in Winchester , er , which I 'm sure they 're conducting a service , but I 'll bet you that pound for pound we 're giving a far better service in Wiltshire , with our dedicated staff , who 've been there a long time .
11 Erm , er I 'll I 'll close it at two , but perhaps I could ask the the applicants erm , I mean I appreciate that obviously erm it er it economy in in in obviously in what you 're doing , but I think it it it would be fairly obviously to , I mean it 's been stated that that that that residents nearby would prefer either two bungalows or a house and a bungalow , and I think er that certainly erm new developments adjacent to where you are proposing these are in fact all bungalows , er with the exception of the mill , which of course has been there a long time , er all those on that side of the road , both those two built and those two proposed are a bungalow or a semi bungalow , er and so erm you can see that obviously it is that the height of these buildings , it is erm causing the offence , largely , erm I I think , I mean obviously you will want to main you know , optimize your er development , but whether er a scheme with two bungalows that they would n't be four bedroomed bungalows , because there would n't be room for two of the four two four bedroomed bungalows , erm
12 Well it 's been there a long time .
13 You always find wherever you are that the people who 've been there a long time get sort of erm a bit uppity , they think that they 're
14 Good god that 's been there a long time .
15 not been there a long time
16 Once I had been there a little while I really settled in and really enjoyed my primary school days .
17 when he 's been there a little while perhaps he can come with all the authority of a Euro MP and tell us the answer to his own question er , the honourable member for Ashfield er referred back to the positioning of the European parliament er where it should meet , there are three sites .
18 While they had been there the previous year there had been hardly any visitors .
19 The same number had been there the previous night as well .
20 She almost asked whether he had not been there the previous Friday but stopped , unsure whether he had forgotten or was deliberately misleading her .
21 Oh , what pleasure would it be to me were there a good understanding between my mother and myself , when I am assured if I know my own heart , that I am so far from having any ill against her that I have almost undone myself to serve her …
22 like I said we at least to go on one complex exercise every month which , although they ca n't physically make you go on it there was , you know , they more or less made you go sort of thing pay to do and then we were there the other weekend we had one of these weekends where be more fun , really hard work though it 'll be more fun for
23 Oh while we were there the other day .
24 ‘ You were there the whole time ? ’
25 Moreover , simply by being there the new governor will add a little stability to Arizona 's politics .
26 How often is there a closing sequence in a film , with the hero facing insuperable odds , holding off the enemy , while his comrades escape .
27 From Laxford Bridge to Lairg is thirty-seven miles , still on the A.838 , and nowhere on this long drive through the Reay Forest and alongside Loch Shin is there a public road branching off until the outskirts of Lairg are reached , and only an occasional shooting lodge or farmstead appears in sight against the background of mountains .
28 Where else is there a steady loss of residents ?
29 Only around Jerash and Amman in the north is there the year-long green of vegetation .
30 But no longer is there the old feeling of isolation .
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