Example sentences of "there [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people and animals can not live there & the air is too thin — there is not enough oxygen to breathe . |
| 2 | I would have loved to have spent more time out there where the action is , but it just was n't practical . |
| 3 | Is n't there a bridge there where poor old Harold won a victory before coming a cropper at Hastings ? ’ |
| 4 | This produced a net inflow figure of £1.54 billion-beating the previous best-ever year of 1983–84 and reversing the fortunes of the previous four years when there where net outflows of savings . |
| 5 | He says : ‘ I can manage — course I ca n't live down there where I was . |
| 6 | ‘ There was a point in there where I was 80 per cent sure that these guys were real . ’ |
| 7 | Here and there where the ground was more open near the lake-edge there were signs of cultivation as though someone with crude implements had scratched and dug a little to encourage nature , already prodigal , to do better still . |
| 8 | The head of Andrew 's cock strains in its clinical , plastic vice — there out of necessity and there where Iain 's hands have so often passed over . |
| 9 | His wife had been an islander by birth and after she died he decided to live there where they had spent many happy holidays . |
| 10 | It was there where , in a fit of depression , she hurled herself down the stairs in a cry for help . |
| 11 | On the Lantonment and river sides of the banqueting hall there had been no firing of chain shot to clear the jungle : this was partly to save powder , partly because the banqueting hall was , anyway , higher than the surrounding land and thus more difficult to surprise ; there were also natural clearings to be seen here and there where the ground was too stony for a thick growth . |
| 12 | And , we also face with a a certain stance there where if people blame , er , turn round to us and say there 's a draft here because er , the air conditioning 's working they do n't wan na sit in a draft . |
| 13 | Then from out there where Slorne 's gaze had led him , from out of the dark moonlit sky , there came a distant calling of a name , a place , a power , and it was like a great presence he could only feel and not see , and it cast itself over him , and over his cage , and over the whole Zoo , and over more than that . |
| 14 | Anything but to raise her eyes and see him there where she ought to be . |
| 15 | I was told by the FO in London that I would be met at Johannesburg airport — since British aircraft could not land in Rhodesia while UDI existed — and would be conveyed to the British Consulate there where I could have a rest . |
| 16 | He gloried in the cunningness of it , the feeling of having outwitted the others , of knowing what they did not ; that he was out and away and they were back there where he 'd left them , ignorantly worrying where he was , searching ; wondering . |
| 17 | He curses them , as young men do — but not young ladies — he pulls out the arrow roughly , then leaves the creature there where it lay down and died . |
| 18 | Flaubert finished Madame Bovary on April 30th , 1856 : there at Croisset , there where I can jab my finger , between two spreading and unknowing sploshes of watercolour . |
| 19 | Just as before she had needed to stay inside the cottage , fearful that she would miss Johnny if he should come , now she needed to be away , out there where her world was still turning , and people laughed and played and did ordinary things . |
| 20 | Did not tradition relate how Saint James had three times attempted to ascend Massis , and on the third occasion been told by an angel that it was forbidden , but that the angel had given him a plank of wood from the Ark , and there where he had received it was founded the monastery of Saint James ? |
| 21 | There where hot plates for breakfasts , refrigerators for drinks , and ironing boards civil engineering . |
| 22 | The old stable is empty — she can live in there where there 's nobody to stand on 'er awd tits ' |
| 23 | Li Yuan looked up , meeting his father 's eyes , seeing the love and hurt and pain there where for others there was nothing . |
| 24 | Her fingers touched his neck , the knot there where the linen sling supported his arm . |
| 25 | " There are places up there where he could have been put in all right without attracting too much attention . " |
| 26 | And there where the trees were no longer trees , nor the road a road |
| 27 | It 's there where I met him . |
| 28 | Erm , so I was constantly getting rises , less my service pay and erm it got to a state there where sometimes my service pay was more than what the erm salary I would have got at home was and my wife had to pay to keep my superannuation live . |
| 29 | I try not to clutch my pelvis , down there where the rot is . |
| 30 | It lies at the heart of Europe , which means that we must be not in a minority of one but right there where the decisions are made . |