Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] there [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I became there and then the cricket fanatic I have remained ever since , ’ he recalled in Maurice Tate ( 1976 ) . |
| 2 | I lived there until I was six . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | I got there and they asked me why I did n't get there sooner . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He was there when I got there and erm |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I moved there because I had to find a way to support myself . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I moved there when I was sixteen , ’ he drawled . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | Dr Allott advised me to be entered for Wadham , Oxford 's ‘ medical ’ college , and I arrived there when I was eighteen . |
| 14 | I claimed there that holists and individualists are not in fact disagreeing principally over the issue of reduction as has generally been supposed . |
| 15 | I turned there and followed the twin scars that marked the track to the house . |
| 16 | About five years , I joined there when I left the |
| 17 | I vowed there and then that I would n't be like that again . ’ |
| 18 | I vowed there and then to give him his share of the money the day he set foot in England ; I wanted to be rid of all those Trumpers and their distracting problems once and for all . |
| 19 | My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next . |
| 20 | Well I worked there and then er quite a bit I had to w they had me working on the main road . |
| 21 | if I worked there and they did n't do it , I 'd just turn round and say , no you 're not having the bloody key until you can learn to keep it clean . |
| 22 | ‘ I decided there and then that I wanted nothing more to do with him , ’ she says . |
| 23 | But , erm all that time I was running the young wives ' and we used to hold a stall in the garden , at the garden party at the church , and w when you took your takings in , you know th the treasurer would say you know , who are you , you know and I used to say young wives ' and then one day I said well , you know we 're no longer young wives , you know we were getting old and I decided there and then I 'd had enough of young wives ' , you know and er , er because I , I said , I , I was secretary and I 'll close it down it , it erm the young wives ' closed down and er er it , it had actually closed down and this lady was marvellous this secretary of the Guild , who would kno known mother and she was a councillor , she come dashing down , you know you , you , th the young wives ' has closed and you know you 've got excuse . |
| 24 | So I started there and they put me on a month 's trial and I dithered about about this month , whether I was good enough , and they 'd forgotten all about it , by the end of month , trial . |
| 25 | I started there when I was about fifteen and er erm they used to breed about er six hundred pheasants there you see . |
| 26 | I lay there and I heard this zip go z-z-zip up , god someone 's coming in tent , tried to get in bed with us . |
| 27 | I felt sure that I went there but I do n't think , I do n't know what happened but I do n't think they were ever so successful really . |
| 28 | Benjamin had told me he would return to Le Coq d'Or ; every morning and each evening I went there but no Benjamin . |
| 29 | So I went there and cornered her in the canteen and tried to chat her up for half an hour . |
| 30 | I promised myself there and then that I was going to master that hill if it killed me , and every day afterwards I went there and drove up it , holding the car on the clutch , until I was successful . |