Example sentences of "there but [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but she were n't there so , whether and then I rang down Susan 's , I thought they might be there but nobody answered the phone , so I thought well |
| 2 | I 'm gon na stop there but what has it we could spend all day and all tomorrow talking about detailed and knowledge . |
| 3 | You may find a stream , a cave , a factory , a prison you did not know was there but which insists upon itself as a landmark . |
| 4 | I , I do n't know how they get there but they know how our army works , we know how their army works , we can not hide manoeuvre 's and every army in the world knows the manoeuvre 's I 've been on one big NATO manoeuvre out in Germany right , and you 're saying to me they do n't know how I , how each army works |
| 5 | Well you see in an ideal situation of the six people I 've got on the second list there 's better quality people there but they 've got absolutely zero experience but we 're not the sort of company who can take these people on and train them really |
| 6 | They got there but they had to go in second gear look |
| 7 | But yet I was suspended , right , for a long time and she after she came back all she had is a little scratch there but they took 'er to 'ospital just to make it seem serious and she come back in school the next day . |
| 8 | Advocates of localization were in the same position as the explorers of the sixteenth century ; they knew there was something out there but they did n't know where it was or what it might look like . |
| 9 | Mr Hutchinson said : ‘ He was saying my dad 's in there , my dad 's in there but they found out he meant his dog and it died . ’ |
| 10 | They not only have to be able to get there but they have to be able to get their words and pictures out . |
| 11 | They they come down there but they have n't got enough oxygen to get up and so they got ta stay on this thing with this creature . |
| 12 | All these people — ’ he gestured wildly with a carpet roll of arm — ‘ they imagine that they perceive what is really there but they do n't . |
| 13 | No no they did n't used to go there but we lived in . |
| 14 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 15 | There should really be a comma there but we 've got a funny twist to the rule we do n't put comma before the and do n't put a comma before the and . |
| 16 | It looks as if there is a walk down there but we 've never been on it but tell you where you may be thinking of , you may be thinking of that walk that goes towards the erm adventure park at the other side of Buckfastleigh . |
| 17 | ‘ That 's a tricky one to answer because the complexities are still there but we made them a lot more hidden . |
| 18 | Not , I admit , the kind of explosives you have down there but we know enough not to trigger a bomb by accident . ’ |
| 19 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 20 | ‘ They hit the bar and we were a bit lucky there but we deserved a break because we fought right to the death on a very heavy pitch . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ The application and desire to win a Test is always there but we need to combine that with combination and cohesion . |
| 22 | See , she 's got a single bed down there but we do n't let her sleep in it just she 's stopping in bed with us , cos no way am you know we might be sleeping here , petrol bomb might come through your window on a night when there 's a riot on . |
| 23 | But in them days do you see , we had er a kettle here and a kettle there but we do n't bother with now . |
| 24 | The gradient of a scalar potential is still there but we have in addition the time derivative of the vector potential . |
| 25 | People : ‘ We are getting there but we have n't got everything right . |
| 26 | and then finally we could finish off with Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men or whatever they want to call themselves from and they could say well we 're the guys in between we 've got clients out there but we have to deal with printers and estimators and this is what life is like for us . |
| 27 | I know that when I had my children I 'd have loved my mother to be there but she missed out on the pleasure because of hospital policy . |
| 28 | He might find it there but she did not think he would . |
| 29 | Cos that , that , th leader gone now , she was n't there but she turned up , she came on . |
| 30 | There must be one other guard besides him and Rudolfo , who 's always there but who has to milk and make his cheese and who — ‘ |