Example sentences of "[vb past] there [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Philip said that board , thick papers , " something , should be put under the tank to raise it , because of some tricky protruding pipes , and Jasper , seeing the stacks of newspaper that had come down from the attic , swiftly gathered them up and built them , while he knelt there beside it , into an eighteen-inch-high platform . |
| 2 | His knees ached as he knelt there for hours . |
| 3 | For a second or two Ben knelt there in front of him threateningly , his whole body tensed as if to act . |
| 4 | He knelt there in the darkness , listening to the sounds of the subsiding passion in the room below , then swivelled silently and with even greater care than before , and feeling far more sober , moved back towards the thin , escaping light at the far end of the chill , cramped roof space . |
| 5 | Off Coleshill Road , north of the city centre , is a short street called Cash 's Lane , named after the Cash brothers , John and Joseph , who built there in 1857 Cash 's ‘ Top Shops ’ . |
| 6 | The latter 's delight and enthusiasm were such that he insisted that Nicholas should be sent to study at Oxford University and maintained there at the royal charge ; but a month later the youth died , on his twentieth birthday . |
| 7 | We rehearsed there for about two weeks — it was about 90 degrees in there ! ’ |
| 8 | " More than once , " I replied , " he visited there with his wife in 1888 . " |
| 9 | She remembers Guildford with affection — since she trained there as a young actress in the 1950s . |
| 10 | Particular attention is being paid to the major Indian rebellions which occurred there in the late colonial period ( 1780 and 1814 ) , to the role of southern Peru in the overthrow of Spanish rule ( in 1824 ) , and to political , social , and economic developments in the first three decades after independence . |
| 11 | as long as erm there 's space found there for them . |
| 12 | Ron and Pat Woolley , of Rhyl , recently took a huge lorry-load of medical supplies , equipment and clothes to the Klaipicla Children 's Hospital in Lithuania after being shocked by the conditions they found there during a previous visit . |
| 13 | Cambridgeshire has never been a county dominated by the nobility and gentry , for the degree of manorial fragmentation found there from Domesday Book onwards did not encourage the development of strong lordship . |
| 14 | When Coffin got back to his own flat , all he found there in the way of post was an enigmatic postcard from his sister Laetitia : she had sent him a view of Edinburgh from the air , with a message scribbled on the back : I am going to the law . |
| 15 | If one knows this bridge , it also puts one ‘ in the picture ’ suspended there over the Thames . |
| 16 | She fled there after splitting from celebrity chef Marco , 30 , just 15 weeks after their marriage . |
| 17 | Nothing moved there except the few blackheaded gulls wheeling and crying above the river . |
| 18 | The arm uncurled onto Richard 's chest and moved there over the nipples and down onto the tensing stomach . |
| 19 | When Phillip retired and went to live in Brighton , in the 1970s , it was Meli , not Marje , who moved there with him . |
| 20 | She moved there with French husband and , after failing to persuade the French authorities to accept her English teaching qualifications , she has pursued a career as a bilingual secretary , joining Courtaulds seven years ago . |
| 21 | Our intention was to reside half the year at Southall , and the remainder in London , and I remember we moved there on the 26th June , 1830 … |
| 22 | Lance , who lives in another tower block near Mark , moved there from Cannock , Staffs , to find work . |
| 23 | The company moved there from its ' Manchester , UK base after allegations that it damaged workers health by exposing them to mercury were made on a BBC Newsnight progamme two years ago . |
| 24 | Every poor family that moved there from the crowded east of Brazil was to have about 100 ha and a small house . |
| 25 | The club moved there in 1954 . |
| 26 | The club moved there in 1954 . |
| 27 | He moved there in 1920 and his first years were marked by extreme poverty . |
| 28 | Horne moved there in September 1903 to promote a mission modelled on Wesleyan central halls . |
| 29 | When the lease ended in 1810 , Lord transferred his ground to North Bank , Regent 's Park , in order to avoid a greatly increased rent bill , and the MCC moved there in 1811 . |
| 30 | They moved there in 1965 to take on the joint roles of warden and matron at the then residential and day training centre for the mentally handicapped . |