Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to be there [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lights , which once seemed to be there to compensate for any lackings in the performers ' abilities , are now secondary to the punch of the music . |
| 2 | Er yeah I 'm mean in that sort of environment you 're dealing with people that do n't want to be there know this timeshare thing . |
| 3 | I 'd had enough of people I knew dying or being killed , and I did n't want to be there to see all my relatives being miserable and to listen to their bomb stories . |
| 4 | Erm so as it 's not an open debate to produce a decision , very often , and it will be less so I imagine , erm they do n't need to be there to listen to this debate . |
| 5 | But it had been years , even then , since Elvis was top of the Hit Parade , and if all he had to offer the world was slicked-back hair and a sulky pout , the Dead Loss was set to slip a lot further down the charts , and Mary was n't going to be there to see it . |
| 6 | There 's half that stuff on there does n't have to be there does it ? |
| 7 | And if it does n't seem to be there ask Phil because , you know that is that only by asking him that I discovered that these worked last week . |
| 8 | He 's , he 's actually going to be there to vote for the bill vote for the amendment |
| 9 | You know , you 're sort of turning the abortion argument on it 's head , that er in an abortion you can say it 's my body , I have a right to decide , and this baby that dies is never going to be there to question that decision , but in this type of situation the baby 's going to be there and okay , you 'll get so many who will just accept their situation and wo n't question it , but you 're always going to get some , or even one who will say I want to know my origins , I want to why I was conceived this way , why I was born this way , why , I have two mothers , that maybe a surrogate mother and a natural mother ? |