Example sentences of "there [conj] [vb infin] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You just have to sit there and see what happens — and what happens is , on the whole , pretty gruesome : the sweat-plastered hair ; the nightie up round the armpits ; the chipped enamel bowl full of afterbirth — and all without the soft focus of a Pethedine injection . |
| 2 | Well you want to nip over there and see what they come on on the roll . |
| 3 | What the Russians want is technical help and equipment , now our own industry is in decline er yes , particularly in machine tool industry , and I think the first thing we should do is to go over there and see what it is they actually needed , what they actually need right now , er one of your previous er correspondence , er speaker turned round and said well they 've got half finished buildings and things like that , I mean er , people have got to be put to work because people in co-ordinate employment is the only source of real wealth , but the market economy is n't interested in promoting real wealth , I mean it 's only interested in what it can get out of an economy not what it gives . |
| 4 | She would not fight him , she would just lie there and accept whatever he did . |
| 5 | We do n't have to sit there and take whatever we get . |