Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to be there [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The forest plantation is quite young and the ditch was ploughed in 1987 , so the body has obviously come to be there after that . ’ |
| 2 | and he probably would n't mind that you were only going to be there for a year or two you know he 's getting |
| 3 | President Gorbachev then left , as the boos and hisses reached the Podium , but in fact it is n't absolutely clear that he was only going to stay for part of the demonstration , or if he was only going to stay for part of the demonstration or if he really was only going to be there for about 20 minutes . |
| 4 | I was now in my twenty-seventh year on the island , and I did not want to be there for another year . |
| 5 | Well he 's not going to be there for ever . |
| 6 | ‘ Our ’ health visitor was not going to be there after all because it was not her turn to do this session . |
| 7 | But they 're not going to be there after five or six years to help . |
| 8 | He just happened to be there after solving another case . |
| 9 | You did not have to be there in person in order to kill by poison ; in fact , you probably tried not to be . |
| 10 | The sword struck a boulder concealed in the heather concealed , a watcher might have considered , so artfully that a moment before it had not appeared to be there at all . |
| 11 | my Lord then all , what , then , was not restricting competition because the people you have excluded are not people who would be in the market in any event , you are already saying we 've got the level of the , the , the hurdle , the wall or the barrier to such a low level that anybody who 's outside it , it is simply not a competitor , we 've got everybody in the market who could conceivably deserve to be there , but there 's no restriction , no you maybe excluding criminals or fraudsters for a , until they 've been re rehabilitated , er and you 're excluding people who simply do not deserve to be there as competitors at all , but no capability of right to compete and that 's why there is no restriction , everybody is in the charm circle who wants to be there and is capable of competing and that 's what the commission are trying to get the rules down to , making sure that no one is outside of the wall who should be inside of the wall and that 's why of course at the end of the day they can give their clearances , there 's no restriction . |
| 12 | And er we were on that for about an hour or so and then they got rid of the the badly injured were taken off then and put on the Therris it 's support vessel that was Just happened to be there at the time . |
| 13 | You do n't have to be witty or attractive or intelligent , you just have to be there with people for the time you 've stipulated . |
| 14 | still got to be there for it . |
| 15 | Even in the early days of her marriage to Julius , Eleanor had always seemed to be there in the background . |
| 16 | It was it was fun when we first started , because the weather was nice , you know it was er you c take a thermos up and have a picnic and sit in the chair and read a book or whatever if there was no one around , but after a while when it became a duty , yeah it was hard work getting up on a winter 's morning , knowing full well that you probably would n't see any cars if you down in until about ten in the morning , but you still had to be there at seven o'clock , and honking it down with rain or whatever . |
| 17 | Anyway , I hope that Spare Rib always continues to be there for all women , and some of us do appreciate the entertaining , interesting and informative magazine Spare Rib is . |
| 18 | Perhaps you only forgot things you did n't want to be there in the first place . |
| 19 | Mike organized it , for me to go over there and then I did n't need to be there at all , cos noth nobody turned up . |
| 20 | So like , I did n't have to be there for the phone at all . |
| 21 | But I 'm in a meeting until quite late — that 's why I suggested Pepe 's , because we do n't have to be there till midnight . |
| 22 | Appropriately enough , in this strange world of not-so-covert agents and hackneyed dramatic devices , it was a secret document that gave the game away : a document that was never meant to be there at all . |