Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] there [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some elderly people entering private care do so using there own financial resources . |
| 2 | Only moved there last month or so Doctor , |
| 3 | he only played there two years ! |
| 4 | We 'll have to carry on with the Week of the Lion tour if only to give there good people something to do . |
| 5 | Her mam would say nothing , just sit there white-faced , cupping her hand over the latest bruise , not daring even to blink in case he said she was sleeping in God 's time when all he wanted was to raise his children decent . |
| 6 | That 's why I put on the weight , I just stand there all day you see got a load them in and press the button that 's all I do all day , I do n't move ! |
| 7 | Kelly jumped , whilst Beeney cam to punch , unfortunately Kelly just got there first and the ball fell into the goal . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , do n't just stand there gaping , ’ bellowed the Headmaster . |
| 9 | They were absolutely horrid and if I went on the beach , the first thing I did was to dig a hole in the sand to put the feet in and then just stay there all day … . |
| 10 | You 've got to , you 've got to physically go there two or three times , you 've got to form the agreement . |
| 11 | I suppose she was used to her filling an armchair every night and just sitting there all night and not doing anything |
| 12 | The bags were of that thinner kind of plastic they use for the bags that they give away at the supermarket , the free ones ; and now one of the bags in her right hand split and she just stood there helpless to stop them as three cans fell out and rolled across the concrete . |
| 13 | I just stood there solid as a rock and this feller looked at me as if to say , ‘ For two pins … ’ |
| 14 | So they 've just lain there deteriorating |
| 15 | You , for instance , could not possibly live there all by yourself . " |
| 16 | He found he was still standing there some minutes later , not because the traffic had been particularly heavy — there had been several opportunities to cross — but because he was lost in thought about what he had seen . |
| 17 | It was , after all , so long ago , and had anything ever happened there worthy of remembrance ? |
| 18 | Conveyancing legal executive Mr Ronnie Howe can add another decade to Mr Vickers 's service , and Mr Fred Burton , now in his 70s , still works there part-time . |
| 19 | If she did n't tell him he 'd probably stand there all day . |
| 20 | Most consternation was reserved for the prospect that the Japanese will probably get there first . |
| 21 | The probe into St Patrick 's juvenile offenders centre on the Glen Road has been launched following a complaint by a former inmate — now living in England — that he was sexually assaulted there ten years ago . |
| 22 | At a loss , Amiss stood there irresolute . |
| 23 | He lived in a hall of residence but spent most of his time in the computer laboratory , sometimes staying there all night . |
| 24 | ‘ No , someone else got there first . |
| 25 | Only someone else got there first . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm sorry , but somebody else got there first . |
| 27 | Twenty officers have been seriously assaulted there this year , and staff say they may lose control if urgent action is n't taken . |
| 28 | centre and the phone and never thinking there that |