Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] there " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And the odd thing is that of all the people who complained to you after that sermon that they 'd never been to Rome only Sister Dew has taken advantage of this opportunity to go there . ’ |
| 2 | Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train … |
| 3 | Have you got all money to go there tonight ? |
| 4 | The freedom to invest in South Africa means the money to invest there so you can make even more . |
| 5 | He and Liena conversed for a while before he announced his decision to wait there for the return of Tony and Ferdy ( the Germans ) , and Dave the American , asking me to take care of Liena on the way down . |
| 6 | But it did n't take a genius to guess there had been a woman involved , someone with whom to share the dream of Rocamar . |
| 7 | ( It was Lawrence who ‘ blew my cover , ’ he said , on finding that Leonard was failing to attend Law School lectures , which was all the more concerning as he had no scholarship to go there , only his family 's financial backing . ) |
| 8 | Hydra was a stop on the way to Athens , though one did n't have to catch the Athens boat to go there , as there were often calques doing the run . |
| 9 | ‘ We leave the boat to float there now . |
| 10 | So I got a hundred and fifty pound to go there . |
| 11 | ‘ You sound as if you 've an axe to grind there , Mr Malpass . ’ |
| 12 | I hired a carriage to drive there at once . |
| 13 | How can he have the nerve to stand there calm and composed and expect me to behave in the same way ? she thought angrily . |
| 14 | Sometimes there was sea carrion to find there , or injured sea birds . |
| 15 | The men who work in the hole say it is a pig to work there . ’ |
| 16 | It was not until last year that I achieved my ambition to sail there . |
| 17 | Prepare the containers by filling loosely to the brim with peat compost , press it down gently with finger pressure around the rim of the tray to ensure there are no air pockets and roughly level it again , then press it down to make a firm , level surface about ½ in ( 12mm ) below the rim . |
| 18 | The captain sent some of his sailors in a boat to land there and bring back some fresh water . |
| 19 | It clearly does not fall into the easy trap of arguing that for crime to exist there must first be intention . |
| 20 | For a partnership to exist there must be a ‘ business ’ . |
| 21 | Terrible drag to get there . |
| 22 | The only snag was for a tran public transport conference everybody needed a car to get there . |
| 23 | The Kent Spring Rally on 1 March might have been a total ‘ white-out ’ but for the admirable spirit of Kent members , who ploughed their way through a freshly deposited six-inch fall of snow to get there . |
| 24 | By the time that you have battled against the wind to get there , you may find that it has some hazard that you could not see from a distance , and then there may be no other good field within reach . |
| 25 | He did not yet know whether Edward wished him to bring to Wales any of his nobles of Champagne to serve there . |
| 26 | In fact , in December , America , Britain and France re-stated their determination to remain there . |
| 27 | Yeah okay , then you have the appropriate facts there and you can explore the bit about savings and plans for the future but you will have his attitude to er do you er is attitude to risk there ? |
| 28 | Such was the restlessness of her longing to go there that she had had to struggle to stick to her resolve . |
| 29 | The essence of Luxemburg 's critique is that for accumulation to proceed there must be a third market , that is , petty commodity production , feudal economy , etc. , for the whole of the surplus-value to be realised . |
| 30 | Now Diego was a man in years , and his strength had passed from him , so that he could not take vengeance , and he retired to his home to dwell there in solitude and lament over his dishonour . |