Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] to be there " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd decided that if Pilger was only going to be there one day a week he could share an office with Hayling . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Our ’ health visitor was not going to be there after all because it was not her turn to do this session . |
| 5 | No point in turning up at the school if young Nick was n't going to be there . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |