Example sentences of "there and " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has hurried to get there and tell the wife before the police arrive . ’ |
| 2 | But you do have a right to be there and to be heard . |
| 3 | And the reverse of that , wrote Harsnet , the feeling that all we have already felt and seen and heard has yet to happen , is so far only a dream , a fantasy , and the sense , he wrote , that this may be a feeling we experience again and again throughout our lives , that the elements of experience have failed to catch on to the glass of our lives , or that the glass is there and waiting for the experience to be registered , that it can wait for ever , for it does not know the meaning of time . |
| 4 | Was she actually there and , if so , did she actually eat any of the food ? |
| 5 | ‘ And what happens , ’ asked Henry mischievously , ‘ when Cousin Amy is n't there and your friends have an extra man ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I know what it 's like in there and I 'm not sure it 's a place I want to be . ’ |
| 7 | I kept wandering around for a few hours , with no idea where I was or where I was going , then somewhere along the line I chanced upon an open space where there was the odd bench scattered here and there and I used one of these for my lie-down . |
| 8 | ‘ The Salvation Army are looking for someone to put in a training house they 've got there and — ’ |
| 9 | In these cases the student probably relies on the instructor to make the decision and knows that he is there and can save the situation if things go wrong . |
| 10 | My only training and instruction for the job was given by a detective chief inspector , who told us to ‘ get out there and lock up thieves ’ . |
| 11 | I lay as if you were there and loved the shape your back had made , had a sense of your silky warmth , my body curling round the heat and wonder of you in my arms . |
| 12 | I will ride there and maybe pass them among the trees . |
| 13 | They had made sure of the few proprietors between there and Dunkeld ; the Duke of Atholl 's authority was weaker here ; tomorrow would be the hard day when they made a drive up to Moulin and Faskally : perhaps they should go and terrify them now while darkness made them lonely ? |
| 14 | Which were always there and would outlast even the war . |
| 15 | Nor did she nod to them or smile or turn to see whether the dark man was there and whether he was painting . |
| 16 | She with , it 's true , Janey 's help , cooked , served , washed up , cleaned , drove us here , there and everywhere , the doctor , school , the dentist , up to London for nerve-racking bouts of clothes shopping , she had the Nigels to stay , and laughed at the J ills at the garage and I 'd 've died if she 'd found out about Paul . |
| 17 | They went into the kitchen and I started to tidy the room , gathering the plates from here and there and scattering the remains of the food on the window ledge . |
| 18 | His uncle was fend of French fries and he tells the empty corridor for the hundredth time that they are called chips over there and they are eaten with vinegar . |
| 19 | Her guides need to be adjusted regularly , a spot of oil here and there and a spot of grease here and there periodically . |
| 20 | Colas sees them there and ties them to his own crook . |
| 21 | Even in softly flowing ballets such as Monotone II where no impetus should be seen as deliberate , it must nevertheless be there and firmly controlled lf , for example , the two boys are to turn the girl sur pointe with her working leg stretched upwards and her head and body bent downwards over her supporting leg . |
| 22 | That 's quite enough for one day at altitude , there and back . |
| 23 | All these topographical details are there and are correct . |
| 24 | In fact the original eighteen poems of the Hardy sequence , ( in the Collected Poems of 1919 , he damagingly extended it by three extra pieces ) tell a story of the poet 's pilgrimage to his and Emma 's early haunts , matching the stages of the journey there and back to specific stages of Aeneas 's journey , in Aeneid 6 , to the abode of the blest . |
| 25 | Evidently , the stock market believes that matters will not rest there and Pearl 's share price raced up 87p to 639p . |
| 26 | Two months ago he went there and saw the usual places and people . |
| 27 | Tina Dicks , whose son Thomas , aged six , attends the school , said : ‘ My little boy is extremely happy there and is coming on by leaps and bounds . |
| 28 | It was my mother Chris Castor , a fine actress , who was leading lady there and gave Mar Dignam lessons in elocution . |
| 29 | He is believed to own around 40 properties there and in the Isle of Man , as well as a large private art collection which could be worth £1m . |
| 30 | An entertained audience is actually there and listening : a bored one has usually gone to dinner . |