Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] there [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boys from the village kiss their girls when I am there because they do not care , but he only kisses them when he is being watched . |
| 2 | Please could I be there when you try it ? |
| 3 | I 'm there before you know it . |
| 4 | I 'm not saying that and I 'm not saying I ca n't cope , but it should be a Marshal on this job so that I 'm there if anything comes up in the village , you see what I mean ? ’ |
| 5 | She told her friend : ‘ I 'm there if you need me . ’ |
| 6 | Oh well if he wants to know why I 'm there and me are you off sick I shall just show him a I 've got proof that I 've been off sick . |
| 7 | Now , now I 'm there and there are n't I ? |
| 8 | Yes yes indeed now , now I 'm there and there are n't I ? |
| 9 | Well if I 'm there and I 'm a guest if she cooked for her and Martin she ca n't just ignore me ! |
| 10 | Because I 'm there and you 're not , your money does n't count then |
| 11 | ‘ Look , dottore , they knew I was there before I got out of the car , before they 'd even had a glimpse of me . ’ |
| 12 | I was there before it |
| 13 | The story was current when I was there that this distinguished classical scholar , so accustomed to dealing with the textual problems of Thucydides and Greek epigraphy , was somewhat disconcerted on arriving at Bletchley station to be greeted by an evacuee urchin , jeering : ‘ I 'll read yer secret writing , guv'nor ! ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And I never had any problem at all when I was there but some of the keepers had . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was the summer when I was there so they were then starting to go swimming in the school pool . |
| 19 | He took a seven-year lease on the place while I was there so he must still have it . ’ |
| 20 | The absent members will not know whether I was there or not ! |
| 21 | So I was there until Sean was seventeen months , which put a strain on all of us , I think . |
| 22 | And I was there until I was about eighteen . |
| 23 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 24 | I was there because Karen had brought me . |
| 25 | ‘ When I 'm old and grey , ’ said Leeds manager Howard Wilkinson afterwards , ‘ and people talk about great individual goals , I 'll be privileged to say I was there when Eric Cantona scored this one . |
| 26 | Wilkinson added : ‘ When I am old and grey I will tell people that I was there when Eric Cantona scored that goal against Chelsea . ’ |
| 27 | I was there when you needed me . |
| 28 | I was there when they took the Enchantment of the Beastline and laid it across the Silver Loom , and I was there as it fell to shreds in their hands . |
| 29 | The business was there and , and I was there when he went . |
| 30 | I was there when the bailiffs arrived . |