Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] there [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Miss Cardings next door , they would have let me stay there until I got myself sorted out . |
| 2 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 3 | Mrs Patient of Bracknell , Berks , said : ‘ I could n't believe that it took four of them to stand there and say they could n't do the work until after the New Year . |
| 4 | I became there and then the cricket fanatic I have remained ever since , ’ he recalled in Maurice Tate ( 1976 ) . |
| 5 | I lived there until I was six . ’ |
| 6 | I hated the place when I lived there and yet today I had the odd sort of feeling that the house was just waiting for me to go and live in it again . ’ |
| 7 | Every day I lay there and repeated an exercise of counting how many branches on the tree outside I could make out . |
| 8 | Then he turned away and went to sleep and I lay there and wept , feeling an absolute failure ’ . |
| 9 | Instead , I sit there while the stylist blow dries for an hour , thinking : ‘ Oh God , another disaster ’ . |
| 10 | I sit there and watch . |
| 11 | The kind of songs I sit there and enjoy singing are like ‘ Eternal Flame ’ , songs that have rich melodies . ’ |
| 12 | So I have to I I sit there the week before I get the you know before I get the money , I sit there and work it all out . |
| 13 | She splits me off from you lot , I 'm really fucked off actually cos like when I just go to dinner I just go with bloody Marina and then I sit there and I just do n't say a word and no one ever talks to me . |
| 14 | I did n't know what it was all about till I got there and one of them said ‘ You may recognise this , ’ and it was all in the style of Camberwick Green . |
| 15 | I was packing my kit when it dawned on me that the squad session would be over before I got there and that I would be concerned mainly with being kitted out as a member of the World Cup squad ’ . |
| 16 | I got there and they asked me why I did n't get there sooner . |
| 17 | And I got there and by good luck I got a very good er site agent and after asking me what I 'd done , he says it 's alright son we 'll build you up . |
| 18 | He was there when I got there and erm |
| 19 | She came in to me as I knelt there and raised me up , and said we must never quarrel and that she would never , ever , give me cause to doubt her , and I must not suppose she could . |
| 20 | I moved there because I had to find a way to support myself . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I moved there when I was sixteen , ’ he drawled . |
| 22 | I assumed there that you can say either ‘ The organism works to propagate all its genes ’ or ‘ The genes work to force a succession of organisms to propagate them . ’ |
| 23 | If I stop there and clutch my possessions , they grow to possess me and I will be their slave . |
| 24 | I walk there and back between squalls , the long ladder on my shoulder getting heavier with every step . |
| 25 | Dr Allott advised me to be entered for Wadham , Oxford 's ‘ medical ’ college , and I arrived there when I was eighteen . |
| 26 | I claimed there that holists and individualists are not in fact disagreeing principally over the issue of reduction as has generally been supposed . |
| 27 | I turned there and followed the twin scars that marked the track to the house . |
| 28 | I have a special calendar , and I cross off each day when I go to bed , and then I lie there and think of you . |
| 29 | About five years , I joined there when I left the |
| 30 | I vowed there and then that I would n't be like that again . ’ |