Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] be there [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the beginning of 1942 rapid expansion had taken place , so that by the end of that year there were some 3,293 staff of all grades , of whom 1,566 were service personnel and 1,727 civilian , and by the time that I had been there for a year there were over 5,000 in all . |
| 2 | And I 'd been there from six in the morning till quarter to nine . |
| 3 | You got half an hour plus ten minutes relief for your refreshments and that would happen at ten in the morning and you 'd been there since seven . |
| 4 | Diamonds and rare jewels were strewn across the floor as if they had been there for millennia . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see . |
| 7 | It 's rather like er I had a plant the other day , a marigold , and it had been there for about two weeks and it was a lovely plant , and er I noticed it beginning to droop and I thought , oh well it 's finished now , it 's in a pot . |
| 8 | She had n't known Mark very well , but she had been there for Robyn when he had died , seen the agony that her friend had gone through . |
| 9 | But he had been there at the right time , he had acted swiftly and effectively and she was alive . |
| 10 | But he had been there with Montaine and he could n't bear to see the place again — not then . |
| 11 | Then at the hotel , he was recognized and before we had been there for five minutes Radio Gibraltar was down to interview him . |
| 12 | Whether he had been there by accident or whether he had spotted me arriving and slunk into position I shall never know , but from his point of view the result must have been eminently satisfactory because it was certainly the worst fright I have ever had . |
| 13 | When she had been there for about six weeks she received the Medical Superintendent 's recommendation for her bravery . |
| 14 | David had been right when he 'd said that Rachel knew the whereabouts of Brooklands , for she had been there with her parents and her sister shortly after David and Jennifer 's engagement had been announced . |
| 15 | For when he had been there at the end of the war it was very much the preserve of the officer class . |
| 16 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |