Example sentences of "[prep] be there [conj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It happened to be there so I potted it . ’ |
| 2 | I know that when I had my children I 'd have loved my mother to be there but she missed out on the pleasure because of hospital policy . |
| 3 | Chimps make new nests every night , and to keep track of them , you have to be there before they rise , and keep up with them until they settle down for the night . |
| 4 | So she said dad 's got to go straight down now for emergency surgery , come on then , for emergency surgery and they want you to be there before he goes , oh christ perhaps I 'm |
| 5 | Yeah I think it it 's it 's been coming on a sort of er you know we we we tour here twice a year every year and we release an album every year at this time and a video , so it 's for all the people who like that type of music they know it 's going to be there and they come out to see us all the time you know and er as you say it goes on and on but lucky enough there is an awful lot of material for us to do and you know there should n't be any problem . |
| 6 | I would like a staff rep to be there and I think it should be a management staff rep . |
| 7 | I think , I think that in any , I mean in , in , in , if you wan na , if you wan na look at it in terms I mean I think labour it it 's always gon na have to be there and I think the biological constraints put the you know , sharpened device |
| 8 | Whether it be a union branch meeting or any other branch meeting you had to be there and you had to know what you 're talking about . |
| 9 | ‘ You 've got to be there and you 've got to sign this to show that you 're aware of it . ’ |
| 10 | You hardly had room enough to do your job , but you dare n't tell 'em to get out o' the way ; or else they 'd say they 'd as much right to be there as you had ! |
| 11 | The nice beer-bellied English gentleman with the Union Jack T-shirt and shorts , a can of lager in one hand and a cigarette in the other , has just as much right to be there as you do . |
| 12 | He would like to be there when they shot the bastard . |
| 13 | And , our research shows that the audience wants their news to be there when they want it — to cover major events when they happen — or to give an update on whatever is new that hour . |
| 14 | Will you help us to be there when they need us ? |
| 15 | And you went to school in the morning but never knew whether your house was going to be there when you got home for dinner or whether you 'd still have a mum and dad and |
| 16 | I want to be there when you find the others . ’ |
| 17 | Mrs Goodhaven went to a committee meeting , then home in time to be there when you telephoned . |
| 18 | and bolt that one because I do n't want anybody to be there when I get back . |
| 19 | You wanted to be there when he found the box , your arrival was nothing to do with Barbara Coleman going home . ’ |
| 20 | You just have to be there when he needs you , for practical as well as emotional help . |
| 21 | ‘ I could have arranged to be there when he called … none of this would have happened if I 'd been there to take care of her . ’ |
| 22 | Alexandra talked to her when she wanted it , read to her when she wished , and while she slept in the daytime , sat and did the household correspondence , knowing Aunt Emily liked her to be there when she woke . |
| 23 | One way to endure severe abuse is not to be there when it happens . |
| 24 | The way the work-force has been treated over the last few years , the uncertainty that 's been created and the lack of consultation , the impact on their lives of such a closure on people who have been expecting to be there until they retire — their jobs may well go , and the impact on that , both for their own lives as well as their families . |