Example sentences of "[verb] to be there [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken wanted to rake David to this thing on his own and David , being very , very cold — he hates demonstrations of emotion — and me being very Mediterranean , I told him that as far as I was concerned , I did n't give a fuck about his award or seeing him receive it , but I thought it was a bit much that his mother could n't be there because it was a public occasion and it was a time when , without having to speak to her , he could be nice to her , as every mother loves to be there for that kind of thing . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Nobody understood , either , how it had come to be there at all . |
| 4 | ‘ The forest plantation is quite young and the ditch was ploughed in 1987 , so the body has obviously come to be there after that . ’ |
| 5 | Among the guests the Mamounia while the Shah was settling in were Henry , Count of Paris , the pretender to the French crown , who was finishing his memoirs there ; the Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole , then a member of the coalition government of Rhodesia , but soon , like the Shah , to be swept away by revolution and Hassans friend , former King Simeon of Bulgaria , who was reported to be there on some business . |
| 6 | But perhaps the greatest satisfaction is the knowledge that you have created something of the beauty that is going to be there for many years . |
| 7 | It appeared that we were going to be there for some time . |
| 8 | ‘ Our ’ health visitor was not going to be there after all because it was not her turn to do this session . |
| 9 | Which must mean that he intends to be there for some time . |
| 10 | I was now in my twenty-seventh year on the island , and I did not want to be there for another year . |
| 11 | Erm and some people that we we send out sort of tend to be there for either half an hour and others sort of . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There 's no bell saying you all have to be there at such a time . ’ |
| 16 | we need to be there by half past six |