Example sentences of "[was/were] there [det] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They were there all the time .
2 They got bigger and bigger and they were there all the time .
3 But ye were there all the time Ah was talkin , to Gómez .
4 The three environments were there all the time , just oscillating backwards and forwards a little in relation to uplift inland .
5 ‘ I knew you were there all the time , ’ he said .
6 At the siege of Belle-Isle I was there all the while ; All the while , all the while , At the siege of Belle-Isle Until last month these lines were only a nursery-rhyme to me , accompanied in my memory by a crude illustration of a tower by the sea and square-rigged warship balancing on humped waves .
7 And the vicar was the the Reverend K G , he was there all the while .
8 It was there all the time but I had turned my back upon it in a sense , so when I got converted , and of course I was listening to the Big Man 's comments on events and I recognized the validity of what he was saying .
9 None of us spoke of the war , in which ( I think ) none of us much believed ; but it was there all the time like ? nagging pain .
10 In my opinion , it was there all the time .
11 My mother was there all the time — "
12 I thought of all the possibilities , and it seemed to me it was there all the time , but I had n't seen it .
13 So I mean , now it 's apparent why he was there all the time is n't it , you know ?
14 It was there all the time
15 It was there all the time ?
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