Example sentences of "[pron] there [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I there said that it is ‘ every fact which it would be necessary for the plaintiff to prove , if traversed , in order to support his right to the judgment of the court . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Am I there to speak on behalf of the council ? |
| 3 | Am I there to speak on behalf of me ? |
| 4 | The weather being too boisterous to admit of a boat being lowered , I endeavoured to capture the bird with a hook and line , and the ordinary sea-hooks being too large for the purpose , I was in the act of selecting a hook from my stock of salmon-flies , when a sudden gust of wind blew my hooks , and a piece of parchment ten inches long by six inches wide on which they were lying , overboard into the sea , and I was obliged to give up the attempt for that day ; on the next I succeeded in capturing the bird with a hook baited with fat , and the reader may judge of my surprise when on opening the stomach I there found the piece of parchment , so completely uninjured that it was dried and again restored to its original use. , |
| 5 | He 'd galloped all the way to Leafield and we would have lost him for good if someone there had n't recognised him . ’ |
| 6 | you 've got ta have someone there to back you |
| 7 | ‘ There were , like , 50 people in the emergency room and someone there figured , ‘ Pop star in an emergency room whose face is green — she must be OD-ing . ’ ’ |
| 8 | He had no key to the house ; he had asked his mother for one , but she had said it was n't necessary — there would always be someone there to let him in . |
| 9 | There is always someone there to take their place . |
| 10 | When someone there recognised Seb as the jockey who had won the previous year 's race at the Wychwood Forest Fair it created a sudden surge of interest and betting became very much brisker . |
| 11 | We belong to a dog club and someone there has suggested that this may be due to the fact that she is spayed . |
| 12 | It is not a question of being frightened of the dark ( although it can be pretty spooky on an out-of-the-way water ) , it is because I enjoy good company and a long night becomes more enjoyable with someone there to chat with ; to share the pleasure of catching big fish , or the lesser pleasure of blanking . |
| 13 | Was someone there waiting for him , Wishart thought ? |
| 14 | No doubt he kept in touch with the Queen 's Theatre , asking for news of any significant alterations ; someone there supplied detailed descriptions of the scenes and machines when it was clear how these would look — but printing had to start well before the show opened . |
| 15 | It is very unlikely that Francis had been summoned to Rome : much more likely that he brought himself there seeing the opportunity of such a gathering . |
| 16 | To rousing cheers from the town walls , the relieving contingent came to the South Gate , which was ceremoniously thrown open to receive them , Seton himself there to welcome Ramsay with open arms . |
| 17 | He had no money and he was working very hard every day and there were lots of problems and nobody there to take care of them . |
| 18 | This is the some the th one of the things I was going to suggest about I was going to leave it till next meeting , is that we we try and organize ourselves so that we are not su Last year I found myself sitting there frantically writing names on raffle tickets , knowing I was going out to play in about ten minutes , but there was nobody there to take over . |
| 19 | Of course , that sort of thing has a really limited audience and , because we were living in Hawaii , there was nobody there to watch us anyway , so we were coming up with the most insane stuff we could do , basically just to please ourselves ! |
| 20 | ‘ Michael Caine ’ , although disguised , is an oblique look at the troubles in Northern Ireland , and ‘ Yesterday 's Men ’ and ‘ Brand New Beat ’ chronicle a country slipping into darkness with nobody there to turn the lights back on . |
| 21 | ‘ It droned on a bit — and there was nobody there to answer any of the questions that were raised . ’ |
| 22 | but they were always a bit erm unhappy when they gave up so much time and er there was nobody there to listen to them when when they got there . |
| 23 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |
| 24 | During that time of course nobody there to run it the youth theatre sadly er ran down . |
| 25 | I was shocked , angry and frightened and , although I walked out of that courtroom with my life in pieces , there was nobody there to help me . |
| 26 | He felt that Ellice had damaged his cause among the delegation as nobody there appreciated the amount of thought and consultation that had gone into his planning . |
| 27 | Their symbolic political struggle is in defence of a cultural order in which there exist strong moral rules to provide solutions to the problems of the appropriate constituents and roles of the family . |
| 28 | Soviet Foreign Minister Shevardnadze showed that the USSR had not forgotten the ZOPFAN impulse in informing Sitthi that ‘ there can be no calm or stability in a region in which there exist foreign military bases and which is not protected from the military rivalry of non-regional powers ’ . |
| 29 | Consider a unit volume dV in which there exist body forces f per unit mass and on the surface of which act stresses . |
| 30 | I said and I have a feeling that there was somebody there watching me I could feel it . |