Example sentences of "be there [prep] all " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Nobody understood , either , how it had come to be there at all .
3 His newly retired Sonauto Gauloises team mate Christian Sarron will be there at all the grands prix to give wise counsel to his young compatriot .
4 The sword struck a boulder concealed in the heather concealed , a watcher might have considered , so artfully that a moment before it had not appeared to be there at all .
5 They stood a little way back from the others as though unsure of their right to be there at all , and they were in bizarre contrast to the rest of the mourners .
6 A person buying or leasing land had no previous right to be there at all , let alone to trade there , and when he takes possession of that land subject to a negative restrictive covenant he gives up no right or freedom which he previously had .
7 Mike organized it , for me to go over there and then I did n't need to be there at all , cos noth nobody turned up .
8 Anyway , I hope that Spare Rib always continues to be there for all women , and some of us do appreciate the entertaining , interesting and informative magazine Spare Rib is .
9 That way the best golfers would be there for all to see .
10 He would n't be there after all this time .
11 ‘ Our ’ health visitor was not going to be there after all because it was not her turn to do this session .
12 Pumpido had to make two saves while neither of the Italians need have been there at all .
13 But perhaps she 'd never really been there at all .
14 I mean , you were n't even sure she 'd been there at all . ’
15 At the very genesis of all feeling and awareness one thought held sway which should not really have been there at all : that to be grown-up , to be a man , meant losing a great part of me .
16 She had let her overwhelming desire feed her imagination ; had read something into his words , his looks , his actions , which had not been there at all .
17 The first thing that strikes me is that my aunt — an almost complete stranger as far as I was concerned — should have been there at all , within the family circle where no friend or neighbour was allowed , and thus in a privileged position to make personal remarks of the type which would not have been tolerated from any other quarter .
18 He just disappeared , as if he 'd never been there at all .
19 But you had to remember the circumstances they were there under — they should never have been there at all .
20 Perhaps she had not been there at all , in the street , but a phantom instead had taken her place , looking like her , feeling like her inside too , but not her , for she , Rosa , had been in her bed , dreaming .
21 Now it must have been must n't it , a possibility , if been there at all , that he was hiding under that bed ?
22 That 's true yes , I 've never even been there at all , let alone played there .
23 I bet nobody 's been there at all .
24 He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see .
25 You think of the people , I mean , these people have been there for all those years
26 Then it hits you — your power line is n't long enough and you have n't checked the video and TV ( if they are there at all ) .
27 Whole families are there with all their worldly possessions …
28 ‘ I 've denounced facts which are there for all to see in the RAI accounts , and the public prosecutors are looking into some of them .
29 ‘ It really is a bit strange to have been arguing the merits of ERM membership in academic abstraction , when the practical effects are there for all to see .
30 The results are there for all to see : dismal standards in key areas , constant undermining of the curriculum for ideological reasons , generations of children under-educated and under-skilled .
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