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 … ’
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