Example sentences of "there [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Definitely crossword time , I 've got ta have a go at it but there 's not a lot left in there nothing in the teapot |
2 | There was so much to do ; there were people out there whom the system was failing ; there was a world that was being poisoned . |
3 | Galloway had now installed a motor mechanic there whom he had hired to look after his new motor vehicles . |
4 | My mother was visiting someone who worked there whom she 'd known as a child . |
5 | I 'd like to be sure there 's no one there whom you recognise from the past . |
6 | There 's nothing I hate more than going to an exhibition where there 's nobody there whom I know and there 's nothing there which I like … |
7 | How he got there no-one knows , but he was a very good sailor and an even better artist . |
8 | But out there no-one knows . |
9 | It was just I I was just looking at there them down there . |
10 | The things showing round there them . |
11 | He had heard Yorkshire people substitute it for the word ‘ self ’ , as in : ‘ I 've been there me sen ! ’ |
12 | ‘ Yo ho ho … 98 whores in horse 's head … give me the moonlight … and a tower of power … mumbo jumbo … hocus pocus … look , I 've only got seven items … ahoy there … avast there me hearties … what do you mean , this is the post office … ? |
13 | ‘ Yo ho ho … 98 whores in horse 's head … give me the moonlight … and a tower of power … mumbo jumbo … hocus pocus … look , I 've only got seven items … ahoy there … avast there me hearties … what do you mean , this is the post office … ? |
14 | As they sat there someone came up and , as was not unusual , joined them in their conversation . |
15 | But we were not there ourselves . |
16 | Take the warren and live there ourselves ! " |
17 | We 've been there ourselves and now feel that it 's too easy for churches simply to add to the guilt of those who have abortions . ’ |
18 | Got more in there yours ! |
19 | As I stood there my mind raced back to that time so many years ago when I had heard my mother say , ‘ I do n't love you , Nicky . ’ |
20 | There my people would be healthy … |
21 | To the right of our view , the lawn sloped up a gentle embankment to where the summerhouse stood , and it was there my father ’ s figure could by seen , pacing slowly with an air of preoccupation — indeed , as Miss Kenton puts it so well , ‘ as though he hoped to find some precious jewel he had dropped there ’ . |
22 | And there 's nowhere to be alone , except my bedroom , and if I try to write there my fingers die with the cold . |
23 | There my father wore the first pair of plus-fours and my mother had the first Eton crop ( an accident of her father 's home hairdressing ) . |
24 | Out there my brother and I were allowed an hour 's TV after supper — that was the ration . |
25 | It was there my consciousness of class , race and sexuality grew , as heated arguments took place , in weekly collective meetings between the residents of the refuge , workers and support group . |
26 | ‘ We 'll get in there my way . ’ |
27 | Since going there my brother has got ‘ O ’ level Grade A in Maths . |
28 | There my father was anxious to meet Dedjazmatch Balcha , Governor of the Muslim city of Harar and one of the most powerful men in Abyssinia . |
29 | It was there my husband and I began to develop our theories , Darcian Monetarism as it came to be called : that the answer to our current economic ills is not to control inflation but to encourage it until we cease to be a money economy altogether . |
30 | ‘ All right , ’ he said , soothing her , stroking her long , narrow back , massaging the taut muscles of her neck , ‘ there my baby , you 're not tired , you 're all right , you 're going to sleep … ’ |