Example sentences of "was there [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Linford was there for the first time . |
| 2 | Jack seemed to realise she was there for the first time . |
| 3 | This year , FOX F M was there for the first time and Phil Angel managed to catch Dr John Howard to explain what it all meant . |
| 4 | I was there for the full week , being lucky enough to have a brother living in Crosby , so was able to take in most of the events and sights of interest , as well as having the pleasure of meeting old comrades at the Cunard Building |
| 5 | And what basis was there for the seventh-century maxim that ‘ the Celtic Church brings love while the Roman Church brings law ’ ? |
| 6 | The ideological basis was there for the fundamental divides which the war , defeat , and revolution openly exposed , and which provided the Weimar Republic from its inception with an extremely weak base of legitimation , especially among the bourgeoisie and élites . |
| 7 | We work with about 60 women a year , and I know many of them would genuinely say that at the start they were unemployable , that they could have gone back to drugs , ended up back in prison , but they did n't because Clean Break was there at the right time for them , to give them the opportunities they needed . |
| 8 | Elaborate preparations had been made for a meeting between the two kings at Gloucester : King Malcolm was there at the appointed time , but Rufus refused to see him , and the two parted , in the Chronicler 's words ‘ in great enmity ’ . |
| 9 | She was there at the departmental conference and he included her in the general nod and smile as he entered the executive producer 's office , but his eyes were guarded , and not just on her account . |
| 10 | ‘ And they were there and nobody was there at the same time ! ’ says Derry . |
| 11 | Everybody was there in the front pew . |
| 12 | But more often , he was there in the front row with a chalice or a chasuble to lay on the stage . |
| 13 | But they used the Fleet Canteen which was there in the first war . |
| 14 | So , establishment for staphylococcusorius is often not an important feature because in the majority of infections we 're talking about an endogenous infection , the organism was there in the first place . |
| 15 | Why do you think the body was there in the first place ? |
| 16 | Erm you know , and these achievements , he 's not saying that you know re rev revolution 's the way forward , he 's actually saying look what 's happened before under the system that existed er previously , er well it actually existed , you know , at the time he was talking about , there does seem to be an effort by the peasants erm you know to , to improve their lot and therefore wha while he cites revolution in a way you , you can argue it is a bit strange because they seem to be , according to him , have improved their lot under the system that was there in the first place , erm |
| 17 | When are we gon na have rules revisions , there 's a long way to go and as the , the er General Secretary said , be careful , because I 've been to talks with , on , from the Regional Committee with the T & G yes we got on lovely with them , they 're fine , they , they gave us a nice big er commemorative medal of the dockers ' strike and it 's got my granddad and my great granddad on it cos they was there in the other union mind you while we 've done all the striking and that they stood by , but nevertheless they 're not bad lads anyway and as John said we must be careful that we are not the ones that are gon na be taken over , because I remember that old song of the fifties , never smile at a crocodile |
| 18 | It was there in the challenging tilt of his head , in the assertive reach of his hand . |
| 19 | Simy Folds ( Fig. 44 ) was there by the seventh century , high up in Durham , and many places already existed in the uplands of Yorkshire when the new monastic ‘ colonisers ’ arrived . |