Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] there [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were only there for a few weeks . |
| 2 | When you were actually involved in it , when you were down there at the murder coal-face , it could be as complicated and unsatisfactory as marriage . |
| 3 | ‘ Literally hundreds of people were down there on the beach , ’ she said . |
| 4 | I think about the same time as Walter for the war was declared when we were down there on the third of September . |
| 5 | Her parents were down there in the garden , Missy , her labrador bitch , at their heels . |
| 6 | In January 1642 , Charles I foolishly entered the House of Commons seeking to arrest five leading Members of Parliament ( who were not there at the time ) and he received a magnificent rebuke from the Speaker of the House . |
| 7 | The face had an openness and a gentleness that were not there to the same degree in this new Elsie who was more poised , a little more distant . |
| 8 | The signs were already there on the campuses , particularly in the capital , that ‘ something ’ would happen sooner or later . |
| 9 | The implication is that the parish boundaries were already there in the early Saxon period when the dyke was built . |
| 10 | She woke up in bed with a man with a red beard , but from the snide remarks and sideways looks of those fellow guests who were still there in the morning gathered that he had not been her only partner of the night . |
| 11 | And while they were up there in the wide , blue yonder , they jabbered non-stop to each other over the radio . |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't know you were n't there at the trials . ’ |
| 13 | And there were some flats were n't there with the with Tommy on the w er Philip , that 's right , Tommy on one day and he , that pub , he picked a bloke up and threw him straight through the bloody pub window . |
| 14 | They were n't there in the they were n't in this office for very long before they disappeared elsewhere . |
| 15 | Then it follows from that that understanding Shakespeare and keeping the understanding of Shakespeare alive is also a good because if , for example , this great , rich and wonderful thing were simply there in the world and no-one could see him and no-one could understand him , and no-one was any longer thinking or talking about him , that also would be a secondary impoverishment . |
| 16 | Then , it follows from that , that understanding Shakespeare , and keeping the understanding of Shakespeare alive , is also a good , because if for example this great , rich and wonderful thing were simply there in the world and no one could see him and no one could understand him and no one was any longer thinking or talking about him , that also would be a secondary impoverishment . |
| 17 | ‘ They 're all on these little labels that were primarily there for the tourists , like Waikiki and Hula records . |
| 18 | These remarks , as they stand , are sweeping generalisations based upon the narrowest of samples ; nevertheless we know with the wisdom of hindsight that the trends in question were definitely there in the 19th century and would become even more obvious in the 20th — that families would be smaller , and that the survival rate would improve dramatically . |
| 19 | Separatism was right there in the middle , influencing all women , and , despite themselves , even those who were most vociferous in their resistance to our ideas . |
| 20 | She was rarely there for the full rehearsals . |
| 21 | The site manager said : ‘ Mellor was rarely there during the week . |
| 22 | It was all there on the page , dissected for her . |
| 23 | He tapped the desk as though it was all there in a diagram that I should have already looked at . |
| 24 | Thérèse says it was all there in the letters she got back from the convent . |
| 25 | It was all there in the lofty , superior look he threw her . |
| 26 | It was all there in the way , in Czech , he called the dog off ; as the dog immediately obeyed , let go of her and went to his master 's side , the man , his charm of yesterday nowhere to be seen , blasted her in English with an angry , ‘ Have n't you any sense ? ’ |
| 27 | It was all there in the sharp and arrogant , ‘ You have a particular interest in my secretary ? ’ with which he flattened her . |
| 28 | When I was down there for the weekend I was speaking their accent . |
| 29 | I was down there in the late fifties |
| 30 | But his gesture was shrugged off by organisers of the 40-nation conference because Karadzic was only there as an observer . |