Example sentences of "[indef pn] there [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 you 've got ta have someone there to back you
2 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 .
3 There is always someone there to take their place .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 !
8 ‘ 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 .
9 ‘ It droned on a bit — and there was nobody there to answer any of the questions that were raised . ’
10 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 .
11 During that time of course nobody there to run it the youth theatre sadly er ran down .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Why is n't there somebody there to bag them for me and create a service ?
15 The telephone might ring , with no one there to pick it up .
16 ‘ 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 !
17 And , as is usual for Managers ' meetings , there was no one there to shout ‘ stop ’ .
18 You do n't have to have an abortion , there should n't be one there to have an abortion for should there .
19 She crawled on to the bed and hugged herself like a child with no one there to bring comfort .
20 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 .
21 ( 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 .
22 My mother was dead , and there was no one there to meet me .
23 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 .
24 What a pity there is n't something there to cure the sickness of a love which is n't returned .
25 Sense that if I could let Goldberg see it there must be something there to see .
26 There is still something there to listen out for . ’
27 We 're out to pass you really , but we we wo n't unless it 's worth it , but erm the emphasis is on trying to find something there to give a mark to sort of thing rather than the other way around .
28 But perhaps my real mistake lay in assuming there was something there to know — something more than a cardboard cut-out . ’
29 He knew she lived alone , and wasted no breath reminding her there was no-one there to look after her .
30 ‘ You ca n't stimulate when there 's nothing there to respond . ’
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