Example sentences of "was there [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That means it was there before Harry fell . |
| 2 | ‘ I find it inconceivable that Philippe Le Roux lined his pockets from his dealings at Norton , ’ comments one senior Norton executive who was there before Le Roux arrived and remains there today . |
| 3 | ‘ Look , dottore , they knew I was there before I got out of the car , before they 'd even had a glimpse of me . ’ |
| 4 | There is a similarity creeps in there whether that came with islands or whether it was there before I just do n't know . |
| 5 | But I think the pre er well not the present A nine but the A nine that was there before they made the new one , it was made about eighteen thirty I think . |
| 6 | I was there before it |
| 7 | I did not have an opportunity to see any meals being served whilst I was there so I can not be sure of either the quality or quantity . |
| 8 | There was an embarrassed smile as Leary said : ‘ Oh no , I heard he was there so I walked through the harbour and took a look at it . |
| 9 | It was the summer when I was there so they were then starting to go swimming in the school pool . |
| 10 | He took a seven-year lease on the place while I was there so he must still have it . ’ |
| 11 | The son was there so it is unfortunate that the burglars were not disturbed . |
| 12 | I knew the risk was there but it did n't become a major concern . |
| 13 | It was there but not there . |
| 14 | You may find a stream , a cave , a factory , a prison you did not know was there but which insists upon itself as a landmark . |
| 15 | The shop was open and George was there but still yawning . |
| 16 | Too often their name was there but they either did n't appear , sending in someone else , or went only with someone else with them . |
| 17 | The heat was there but in the evening it was humid and sweaty . |
| 18 | After all , if a fellow was not allowed below waist level — and the all-in-one pantie girdle was impregnable without traitorous and lustful help from the inside — then what else was there but hours of despairing mauling of the mammaries , offered up as they were with the aid of uplift-under-wired-half-cup-sponge-rubber-lace-nylon and steel display cases . |
| 19 | The revelation was there but not everybody had eyes to see it . |
| 20 | The bag had been re-used , the original sender 's label was there but a small plain one had been stuck on top of it . |
| 21 | I , I , I was supposed to have a lift , and erm I was waiting like I say ten to five we knock off half one you see and the guy never turned up , the car was there but |
| 22 | We had to pay er there was two lots of erm tyres , there was one set of buses were fitted with and another one with or I forget which it was there but I know those three were involved at some time or other and we used to record the mileage , send it off to them , showing what each bus ran during the month . |
| 23 | And he was there but there was no way of getting back . |
| 24 | ‘ He was there but he did n't do it ! |
| 25 | Er that was when I was there but now it 's pumped ashore with well by hose from the ship you know and er they put water in about once or twice a year . |
| 26 | And I never had any problem at all when I was there but some of the keepers had . |
| 27 | And when I took those I did n't come down for a , and that frightened me , I said to Russell I will never ever take speed because it 's if , I was er we were in the pub right on a Sunday morning and I was there but I was n't there , I was somewhere else . |
| 28 | But that other bloke was there but he was n't in his normal place . |
| 29 | trifle left , and by the time the trifle was there but there was no sandwiches or . |
| 30 | The Soviets , who had arrived at Heathrow the previous evening , were taken to Twickenham to train and practise , and it was there that their assistant manager Douglas Kavtalashvilli made the offer . |