Example sentences of "to be there [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When he took me into the lead I did n't want to be there that soon — so many horses have been caught after being clear , ’ he said . |
| 2 | The horror of the memory made it all too easy to choke and scream , but to her relief her performance was cut short in seconds as the door burst open , the light snapped on and she was in Penry 's arms , held close to his chest , and so glad to be there that not even her guilt could mar the joy of the moment . |
| 3 | Jack was on call anyway and had more reason to be there than her , but if anything that was an added incentive to stay . |
| 4 | ‘ It happened to be there so I potted it . ’ |
| 5 | I 've grown up hating and loving country music , too ; sometimes you just did n't want it to be there 'cos it was the only thing you 'd hear on the radio in Texas , before rock'n'roll . |
| 6 | ‘ It 'd be great to be there but I 'm not that fussed . |
| 7 | ‘ I just want to be there but , if the worst comes to the worst , the squad is strong enough to win . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It might seem churlish to ask for flavour as well as the chance to save the planet , but it used to be there before the planet needed saving . |
| 11 | Chimps make new nests every night , and to keep track of them , you have to be there before they rise , and keep up with them until they settle down for the night . |
| 12 | ‘ I want to be there before the coach gets in , ’ he said urgently . |
| 13 | So she said dad 's got to go straight down now for emergency surgery , come on then , for emergency surgery and they want you to be there before he goes , oh christ perhaps I 'm |
| 14 | But you do have a right to be there and to be heard . |
| 15 | They just had to be there and play well and perform well . |
| 16 | I once specially asked for him to be there and then demanded to know at the rehearsal who was this man sitting with the flutes . |
| 17 | ‘ And frankly , ’ he said , coming to the essence of the matter , ‘ those two do n't want to go without you , and Harry wants you to be there and … well … so do I. ’ |
| 18 | Mr Emig questioned whether the urine samples examined were those actually given ; whether certain people present at the doping test had the right to be there and why the transportation of the samples had taken so long — five days , including three days at Cologne airport . |
| 19 | But the green smell used to be there and it was strong enough to make me think of English summers when I looked at the sky . |
| 20 | And in those situations I go and pop in when she is supposed to be there and have a go at her if she 's not . |
| 21 | ‘ You 've got to be there and you 've got to sign this to show that you 're aware of it . ’ |
| 22 | You may feel inadequate at this point , because whatever you do for her will not seem to lift the cloud of her despair , but by being willing simply to be there and available in the background , accepting uncritically her inevitable mood-swings , and allowing her to talk , weep , or remain silent just as she wishes , you will be proving your concern for her ; and loving concern and the right to grieve in their own way is what the bereaved need most of all . |
| 23 | She did not know that I was to be there and came forward saying : ‘ My dear Elizabeth , what a very nice surprise . |
| 24 | In gaol he refused to try to understand how he came to be there and during the years of his imprisonment spent much time sobbing in his cell as a desperately hurt child sobs . |
| 25 | I was so excited , I was actually going to see him , he was going to be there and so was I. |
| 26 | But his mature convictions were the effect of a long organised retreat from the simple dualities of youthful Marxism — capitalism against socialism , bourgeois against prole — and the first of his books ever to see print , Down and Out in Paris and London ( 1933 ) , had been emphatic that Marxist analysis fails to correspond to observed experience , the gradations insisted on by the kitchen-staff of a Parisian hotel or the destitute of an English doss-house being there because the poor want them to be there and not by compulsion . |
| 27 | Most landowners do realise that people have a right to be there and the best PR for them is to ensure the rights of way are clear and enjoyable — landowners need public support . |
| 28 | But for decades such scenes were done in the studio : if you think of the scene between the brothers Charley ( Rod Steiger ) and Terry ( Marlon Brando ) in On the Waterfront ( 1953 ) , as they talk in the back of a limo , the background of night-time streets has to be there and be moving ; but it 's only partly visible ( and the cars of the 1930s and '40s had small rear windows ) and becomes dramatically significant only after Terry has left the car . |
| 29 | She could n't guess why Sandra Kettering in her detailed instructions had arranged for her to be there and for that mistake to be made . |
| 30 | You know , you 're sort of turning the abortion argument on it 's head , that er in an abortion you can say it 's my body , I have a right to decide , and this baby that dies is never going to be there to question that decision , but in this type of situation the baby 's going to be there and okay , you 'll get so many who will just accept their situation and wo n't question it , but you 're always going to get some , or even one who will say I want to know my origins , I want to why I was conceived this way , why I was born this way , why , I have two mothers , that maybe a surrogate mother and a natural mother ? |