Example sentences of "and there i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I always get on very well with English prisoners of the R. A. F. I worked for some time at the prison camp where you 'll be going tomorrow , and there I made many good English friends , especially — . ’ |
| 2 | Bleary-eyed , I staggered back to Nevski Prospect , and there I spotted a dejected-looking husband sitting in his car outside a supermarket , obviously waiting for his wife to emerge with the shopping . |
| 3 | And there I went a bit I once saw a big pile of soil at the back you know . |
| 4 | During the first few days of the Blitz I had to go to Kings Cross and there I saw whole streams of weary and frightened East Enders pouring through the station , intent only on getting away from the bombing with what bits and pieces of their belongings they had been able to salvage ; with their small children crying and bewildered , and family pets bundled up in rugs or protesting loudly in makeshift cardboard boxes . |
| 5 | John of the Cross , the Spanish mystic , wrote ‘ I looked at the Cross and there I saw the song of love ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ And there I thought you were young and innocent ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ And there I thought you had plenty of fighting spirit . ’ |
| 8 | I flew too high , and then I was going higher , faster , I could n't stop , like a feather finding a vent I just shot up to the spindle , and there I stuck , dangling in zero-g I kicked and flailed , I was hopeless , I had no idea how to get away I had n't got anything I could throw I could n't even see straight anyway , my eyes were tearing The pollution was pretty bad up there , I started coughing , and then I could n't stop |
| 9 | Nay , I said — at Briar Cottage I live and there I mean to stay ! ’ |
| 10 | Up the brae , and o'er the top and doon the , eh er , up the brae and o'er the top and doon again and up the brae and o'er the top and doon I drop and that the day and there I stop . |
| 11 | Reggie owned the Villa Cipressi on Lake Como in Italy and there I spent an unforgettable fortnight during the summer of 1932 with seven Oxford friends , including Harry Phillimore and Robin Campbell . |
| 12 | And there I stand , bold as brass , if shaking a bit , saying , ‘ I 'm just ready . ’ |
| 13 | The kitchens were , in fact , under the rue de Rivoli and there I found a cook-boy , fast asleep , whom I wakened . |
| 14 | The ‘ Glamaig Water ’ etching is in fact the Allt Daraich coming down from the corrie to the south of Glamaig and there I found one of the most reassuring sights of the Rambles . |
| 15 | I then zealous to understand I I er , er , erm sought it Statutes , Volume thirty-three nineteen ninety three edition and studied most carefully pages six hundred and seventy-five to six hundred and seventy-seven and there I found an account of what has happened to Sections two and three and also for the first time light was shed upon Section two A. My Lords , I have from time to time ventured to express some doubt as to whether our legislative procedures were as excellent , as I 'm sure Your Lordships would wish them to be and when I recently suggested in the most mild terms to Her Majesty 's Government that they might consider some form of enquiry into our legislative procedures to see whether as they were as high class as they should be , erm I was given a very negative reply the clear influence of which was that the our legislative procedures could not possibly be improved and My Lords I do really think with respect that that is a proposition which is open to doubt . |
| 16 | And there I stayed until the age of nine , probably about nine . |
| 17 | W. Hewer and myself towards Westminster ; and there he carried me to Nott 's , the famous bookbinder , that bound for my Lord Chancellor 's library : and there I did take occasion for curiosity to bespeak a book to be bound , only that I might have one of his binding . |
| 18 | A rotting rustic hut gave shelter from the monsoon and there I decided to forget about JTR 's sketches at the sheep farm by the Laddie Burn many a mile on . |
| 19 | Saturday night at the Cauldhame Arms and there I stood as usual at the back of the packed , smoke-filled room at the rear of the hotel , a plastic pint glass in my hand full of lager , my legs braced slightly on the floor in front of me , my back against a wallpapered pillar , and Jamie the dwarf sitting on my shoulders , resting his pint of Heavy on my head now and again and engaging me in conversation . |
| 20 | Well , we 've recently erm been involved in the Travel Lodge exercise , which obviously is a budget priced operation which is run by Trust House Forte , and there I think the company itself is establishing very good standards because the occupancy rate of the Travel Lodges is so high , you know , that other hoteliers are quite jealous of it . |
| 21 | The other two bedrooms were piled high with ‘ do n't knows ’ and ‘ perhapses ’ , and there I intended to leave them while I recovered . |