"What I was really surprised by when I first joined was how many people were there who I knew.'" Evan Falchuk is a lawyer.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

They were there to examine the court's progress for the first time.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

There were many others who were there only to watch the play.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

They seized the few people who were there and captured the factory.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

But his lawyers were there to defend him.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

Historian and naval officer Samuel Eliot Morison described the fighting this way in his book "The Struggle for Guadalcanal": "For us who were there, or whose friends were there, Guadalcanal is not a name but an emotion, recalling desperate fights in the air, furious night naval battles, frantic work at supply or construction, savage fighting in the sodden jungle, nights broken by screaming bombs and deafening explosions of naval shells."

VOA: special.2011.06.23

"There was no teaching materials. The villagers complained that, even when the teachers were there, they were not actually teaching the children.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

"We just were there and we just did it. We had basically no huge plan."

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

Supporters of the bill were there too. Jesse Jackson - a veteran of the civil rights movement - stood in the shadow of the Capital as a witness to history.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

As August 1969 fades farther into the past, the Woodstock Festival continues to enjoy a near-mythic status, both for those who were there and for the millions who wish they'd been there.

VOA: standard.2009.08.15

They truly got into the spirit. And in the second party one of the students took the microphone and she got everyone to start singing Christmas songs, which to me helped bring up the whole spirit of why we were there."

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

"When I was sleeping I heard a knock at my door, and I opened my door and two men were there and gave me a pouch and said, 'A gift for you.'" The prosecutor asked Campbell if she knew who the gift was from.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

"So clearly that is a major concern for us. If you think in terms of just basic health services or even more acute health conditions, there is a fear that people who were there at the time of the flooding are not getting the treatment that they should be."

VOA: standard.2009.09.08

"Other volunteers took the lead role in making sure that gifts for certain communities stay together and get the process going and making sure that the individuals and volunteers who were there to wrap had a supply of wrapping papers and scissors and tape and everything.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24