Example sentences of "be there but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah we know they 're there but they 're the wrong kind for you darling . |
| 2 | She 's alright once you 're there but if yo i mm mm if she does n't like then that 's it ! |
| 3 | ‘ It 'd be great to be there but I 'm not that fussed . |
| 4 | Then you start thinking about characters that should be there but hardly exist — black detectives , politicians , tennis players . |
| 5 | ‘ I just want to be there but , if the worst comes to the worst , the squad is strong enough to win . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Everest will always be there but I might never get a chance to play at Twickenham again ’ — WILL KEFFORD ( Harlequins and Middlesex Colts full-back ) who cancelled a trip to join his father 's Everest expedition to play in the Colts Final at Twickenham which Middlesex lost to Lancashire ( 19–15 ) . |
| 7 | I know that when I had my children I 'd have loved my mother to be there but she missed out on the pleasure because of hospital policy . |
| 8 | I do n't want to go back to the Evans 's , I really do n't , I never did want to be there but it 's worse now , not better . |
| 9 | The animals may be there but it may not be easy to see them because they are too small ; therefore use the microscope ( Chapter 5 ) . |
| 10 | Again , she knows vaguely what letters should be there but ca n't visualise where they go . |
| 11 | ( By the time they reach 17 , the alarm may still be there but it will be reduced . ) |
| 12 | ‘ It could be there but I doubt it . |
| 13 | ‘ The Lionisers are having an evening at the Albion Hotel tonight , and not only will they be there but all the people who cooked and served your father 's dinner that evening . |
| 14 | Or it may be there but the police and the stewards are n't allowing it to come out because they 're keeping a lid on it so efficiently these days . |
| 15 | I 'm not sure he 'll be there but |
| 16 | I know she wo n't be there but she , I bet she will . |
| 17 | but she were n't there so , whether and then I rang down Susan 's , I thought they might be there but nobody answered the phone , so I thought well |
| 18 | yeah oh it might be there but then they , they do erm , they do say as they get older they get er fed up with milk and they eat and you know the , they do sometimes |
| 19 | In Rome the pair will be kept apart as both concentrate on their specialist distance , for Gillingham that means the 200 metres and a chance to firmly enter the spotlight ; Moorhouse might not be there but the opposition is still high class . |
| 20 | ‘ I would have loved to have been there but I just can not get around now . |
| 21 | The late Lorna Bloxam , 11 at the time , is also known to have been there but sadly her detailed memories are not recorded . |
| 22 | ‘ You must go , ’ he said , as if nobody had ever been there but him . |
| 23 | It had been there but he had not seen it . |
| 24 | I 'd never been there but there would have been a terrible fuss if I 'd taken off to Roundhay Park or Woodhouse Moor or somewhere . |
| 25 | And as I say as I say I do n't ken how long it had been there but that see that likely about the same time as the as the mill was heightened and er the kiln would 've been putting on . |
| 26 | I 've never had a contract of employment in the six years that I 've been there but erm less than forty eight hours after all this happened every employee was issued with a contract of employment . |
| 27 | A fire brigade spokesman said : ‘ We do n't know how long he had been there but he was shivering and shaking . |
| 28 | I think if the Liberal Club was only like First World War it was n't there it has n't always been there but the Conservative Club was there as long as I can remember . |
| 29 | that ducks do have eggs it 's possible they could of been there but they were n't . |
| 30 | The curving shapes are there but she is in her Sunday best , positively dripping in spires , swags , pilasters , finials , and coats of arms , the better to proclaim her respectability and superiority . |