Example sentences of "[to-vb] there and " in BNC.
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| 1 | A long garden with plenty of tall shrubs and bushes means plenty of cover for an attacker to hide there and surprise you on your night-time walk to the front door . |
| 2 | He quotes a young Pakistani woman recalling her schooldays , when she had to change for swimming and showers : ‘ I was surprised at the English girls who simply used to stand there and change . |
| 3 | ‘ I was n't going to stand there and listen to that stuff , ’ explained Cooper graciously . |
| 4 | The first angler each season to stand there and cast out a Black Pennel , about ten yards , always catches a trout of 1lb . ’ |
| 5 | Is it really necessary to explain the excitement of smashing things , whether they are milk bottles , shop windows , buses , telephone boxes or whatever , if the alternative is to stand there and do nothing . |
| 6 | Mrs Patient of Bracknell , Berks , said : ‘ I could n't believe that it took four of them to stand there and say they could n't do the work until after the New Year . |
| 7 | Remember when she used to stand there and madden you with her politeness and that voice of hers . |
| 8 | You have to stand there and watch , you can never make anything happen . |
| 9 | And there was catches on the chair and you used to be ab A lad used to stand there and he used to pull a lever and he used to level these catches and the tubs would run off and then as two ran off he 'd let it go and it would catch the empties you see then . |
| 10 | I mean we were to come over Bridge here and there was a police station on Bridge at the time , police , you know opposite the T B I , and the sergeant used to stand there and he used to wait for us coming home . |
| 11 | If you think I was going to stand there and " |
| 12 | ‘ No , Hilary , I have not finished , and you are going to stand there and listen until I have . |
| 13 | I do n't want to come there and find I have nothing to do . ’ |
| 14 | It is , and that is the advantage of Kuwait , and that is one thing which which perhaps the world should appreciate , that we were a haven for ex-patriots to come there and make a living and work . |
| 15 | There was an old deckhouse off a ship and these old chaps used to meet there and I suppose they 'd be talking of old times — shipbuilding . |
| 16 | used to meet there and go in and see them |
| 17 | Mr Behbehanian , his banker , who believed that the British controlled every event in Iran , was still pressing him to repair there and to apologize to the British for insulting them in recent years . |
| 18 | Erm and I just said , I said I used to housekeep there and at Nutton Oh ! |
| 19 | But it 's a fair distance to walk there and it is , I suppose , a lot handier to pop down to the reservoir . |
| 20 | he would n't talk I says no names mentioned , well it is I have to put there and there like , but Aye twenty tapes , you do n't have to use all the tapes , like you know , just , for different languages |
| 21 | And the training course will show you what to do there and you take samples away and the training manual as well . |
| 22 | Unexpected things that emerging you have to do there and then , like |
| 23 | Er and then when the Second World War started er we , we had to leave there and come down to the er sh to the sh shop really . |
| 24 | I wanted to cry there and then but I was in the ward surrounded by people who would want to dam up my tears , so I stood up , put my jacket on and walked out . |
| 25 | I had in mind the possibility of a UK registered Concorde crashing into the sea just outside the three mile limit of some State while making an approach to land there and possibly the Russians or some of their friends commencing to salvage it before we could do anything about it . |
| 26 | The captain sent some of his sailors in a boat to land there and bring back some fresh water . |
| 27 | She found herself on the threshold of Fearon 's bedroom : that was a bit tricky and she knew she ought to retreat there and then . |
| 28 | Okay , if we want to finish there and erm have a short break . |
| 29 | Every trip to the door was an expedition and it was acutely exasperating to arrive there and see only a little figure in the distance dancing about and grimacing at me . |
| 30 | It was staggering really to arrive there and see all these cars . |