Example sentences of "[pron] there [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Am I there to speak on behalf of the council ? |
| 2 | Am I there to speak on behalf of me ? |
| 3 | you 've got ta have someone there to back you |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There is always someone there to take their place . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ It droned on a bit — and there was nobody there to answer any of the questions that were raised . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | During that time of course nobody there to run it the youth theatre sadly er ran down . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The distinction between those cases and this is that the lawyer for the other can immediately attack the one — there is somebody there to protect the reputation of each defendant who is in the court — but in a case such as that which has affected my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Leicester , West , there is no such opportunity to defend oneself . |
| 17 | Why is n't there somebody there to bag them for me and create a service ? |
| 18 | Suppose he needed you there to assert he 'd walked into a trap ? ’ |
| 19 | We want you there to check out what the hell has happened . |
| 20 | Aye , sh , aye well I , I 'd s I 'd say to you there to start with dickerty gadgy do you ken what that means ? |
| 21 | The telephone might ring , with no one there to pick it up . |
| 22 | ‘ Because those wretched Japanese are all demanding breakfast and we do n't normally open the restaurant until ten-thirty for morning coffee so there 's no one there to cook it ! |
| 23 | And , as is usual for Managers ' meetings , there was no one there to shout ‘ stop ’ . |
| 24 | You do n't have to have an abortion , there should n't be one there to have an abortion for should there . |
| 25 | She crawled on to the bed and hugged herself like a child with no one there to bring comfort . |
| 26 | The danger arises if you happen to arrive at what was for you a distressing time and there is no one there to help you deal with it in the way I shall describe in Chapter 2 . |
| 27 | ( b ) The problem of sustaining pupils ' independent use of the library after library induction , since it was only manned for 60% of the time , and often there was no one there to mediate between pupils ' needs and the resources . |
| 28 | My mother was dead , and there was no one there to meet me . |
| 29 | The next election will see a wave of Tory propaganda hit the province and , unless things change , there will be no one there to challenge it . |
| 30 | What a pity there is n't something there to cure the sickness of a love which is n't returned . |