Example sentences of "and [vb base] there " in BNC.
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1 | One could never say ‘ I have reached the limit of my religious development ; it is time to return to the secular plane and develop there correspondingly . ’ |
2 | Because of its remoteness behind the Pyrenean mountain barrier and because of Moslem dominance , architectural ideas were slower to reach Spain and develop there . |
3 | I do like she says , and sit there with the damp towel round my neck and wait for her to come back . |
4 | When we came out of the Clerecia , after dipping hands in the holy water stoup and placing a drop on each other 's brows , as we had seen the novios and novias do ( the boy on entering a church would dip his hand in the water and transfer a drop to his fiancée 's fingertip so that they could cross themselves in unison ) , we would go into La Casa de las Conchas next to the Clerecia , with elaborate wrought-iron window-grilles and its tranquil courtyard , and sit there quietly for a while , thinking of the next poem , or of the one we were working on . |
5 | Sometimes I go into a public-house and sit there with a glass of lemonade in my hand , eavesdropping , hoping to hear some treasonable conversation . |
6 | Station cafés like the one at Temple Meads — I saw the freckly man with the ginger hair , stared him straight in the eye but he did n't recognize me — you ca n't sleep there at night , Vern said , but you can buy a coffee during the day and sit there nodding off and they think you 're just tired from travelling . |
7 | Take that stool and go inside to the cloakroom and sit there until you 're called by me to come away from it . ’ |
8 | ‘ I suggest you have another glass of wine and sit there and I 'll sort it out . |
9 | I go and sit there while she works . |
10 | He found himself wishing he was at home again , at Polly 's home , and could creep stealthily into the twins ' room and sit there as he sometimes had at night , on the floor among their discarded toys and cuddly animals , with his back to the wall , listening to the sound of their breathing . |
11 | Rounding it off with a cocktail , we finish our meal and sit there doggedly describing it to the waiter , with the menus there to jog our memory . |
12 | Cadfael shepherded his charge within , and watched him subside gratefully on to the narrow cot , and sit there mute for a moment , laying his burden down beside him with a kind of caressing gentleness . |
13 | But when he has gone I buy another whisky , and sit there musing on being a crunched-up spring . |
14 | I want to try and get one before May before the exam , but there is a superb production on i the summer , it 's on June and July and it 's at an open-air theatre erm in Lincolnshire and what people do is they go and take a picnic and you sort of take your rug and sit there and cos it it 'll be hot in the summer it would be really nice and you watch it outdoors and it 's in this big stately home which is in it 's own grounds and there 's gift shops and restaurants and bars and obviously wo n't go in the bars but you know there 's lo it 's beautiful and like a big stately home you can wander round the gardens for a bit and then go and watch the performance and if it rains then there 's a canopy you can pull the canopy over like at Wimbledon and you know it 's a really nice day . |
15 | No , I mean actually come to one of the officers and sit there and they do the work , so it does n't bother us at all . |
16 | You come to see me and sit there and say nowt . |
17 | Well , I 'd rather just go round there for an hour and sit there . |
18 | Now you just and sit there watch it now . |
19 | His presence and influence there made him a figure in world Christendom . |
20 | A diver absorbing excessive nitrogen must ascend to a designated depth to reduce the pressure and remain there for a specified time for what is known as a ‘ decompression stop . ’ |
21 | In those days , scarlet fever victims had to go to the Isolation Hospital just outside the town , and remain there for about six weeks , until all the affected skin had peeled off . |
22 | If it is raised and released it will fall from state A to state B and remain there . |
23 | The vision of the completed composition will come into his mind and remain there , often unchanged , until it has been transferred directly onto the canvas by the artist 's brush . |
24 | Go to the top floor of your house and remain there till the water goes down … ’ |
25 | Women , especially married women , have increasingly desired to return to work and remain there by having a break to give birth . |
26 | But ERR , carrying out research for the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) , found that emissions of this type will " rise considerably above their 1990 levels and remain there " . |
27 | Whether or not a witness should remain in court during the hearing is at the discretion of the court ( Moore v Registrar of Lambeth County Court [ 1969 ] 1 All ER 782 ) but they are usually brought in and remain there unless some application is made . |
28 | It emerged that when oestrogen was taken on its own , the lining of the womb would build up each month and remain there instead of being shed as a period . |
29 | If therefore these words [ Genesis 3:16 ] give any Power to Adam , it can only be a Conjugal Power , not Political , the Power that every Husband hath to order the things of private Concernment in his Family , as the Proprietor of the Goods and Land there , and to have his Will take place before that of his wife in all things of their common Concernment ; but not a Political Power of Life and Death over her , much less over any body else . |
30 | When Lewis said to come back with him and eat there Adam had got a kick on the ankle from Anne and another kick when he had n't replied . |