Example sentences of "[verb] there [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was frozen there with an appalled sense of waste , that his cohort had denied him his greatest discovery . |
| 2 | She remembers Guildford with affection — since she trained there as a young actress in the 1950s . |
| 3 | By ruling in favour of the appellant , a schoolmaster at Malvern College , whose two sons were educated there at a concessionary rate , the Lords have avoided what has been described as an ‘ administrative nightmare ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The female is attracted there by a colourful advertisement display given on the nest itself . |
| 6 | She lies there for a long time , not saying nothing . |
| 7 | The Crying Game sees the city from a fresher , less knowing perspective , as Fergus arrives there from a disastrous kidnapping in the Irish countryside and views everything in a daydream of sun and strangeness . |
| 8 | If England were to decline to tour India on the grounds of safety , other countries might not be so willing to visit there for a one-day jamboree . |
| 9 | No dog , he noticed , but Cara 's son , the silent child who had always made him feel so ill at ease , still sitting by the hearth as if he had grown there from a morose three-year-old into a clean and tidy , almost dandified five . |
| 10 | It was almost as though he had grown there like a vile fungus on the dead timber . |
| 11 | Then finally , Paul Reichmann saw the opportunity he had been waiting for in London , a city he fondly recalled from the days when he studied there as a young man . |
| 12 | The first survivors who reached the shore regrouped up the estuary past the bony tangles of mangrove in the forest at the arranged meeting place ; they were met there by a waiting group of islanders , men and women , ready to re-arm them and send them into battle . |
| 13 | Even by the 1980s , seminar teaching had found little hold there despite a decreasing proportion of staff to students . |
| 14 | Nigel Maynard , son of the Malta A.O.C. The unit now moved to Alexandria , although a small servicing detachment was to be left at Kalafrana for several more weeks in order that Sunderlands might land there as a forward base . |
| 15 | Leading a band of forty-five lodges up the Valley of Winding Waters in the summer of 1875 , Joseph found two companies of cavalry under Captain Whipple stationed there as a peace-keeping force . |
| 16 | His earliest patron was Hubert Walter , later archbishop of Canterbury [ q.v. ] , a fellow native of West Dereham and founder there of a Premonstratensian abbey whose charters are witnessed by Master Elias , perhaps as early as 1188 . |
| 17 | Say summat instead of lying there like a great mawker . ’ |
| 18 | When I prised her off and tried to stand her on the floor she kept rocking back and sitting on her tail , then falling over sideways and lying there like a stuffed parrot . |
| 19 | While France was content for Germany to remain divided , it was concerned about its new neighbour , the Federal Republic of West Germany , not least about the rapid economic growth that had occurred there after a major currency reform in 1948 . |
| 20 | The sow was waiting there like an auction-block bride . |
| 21 | At the end of the day it 's a political decision from the council of ministers , but it seems to be going there with a firm endorsement of support from the commission . ’ |
| 22 | Sue Burrows said : ‘ We do not know what to expect or how many teams will be taking part but we are going there with a positive attitude . |
| 23 | Back foot is the last into the footstraps and is only used there in a strong wind ( Force 4 & plus ) |
| 24 | You sit there , then you get up and you walk to one end of your cell , which is n't very far , stand there for a little while , then you walk back , look out the window , and all the thoughts go through your mind — I could be out there , your children , friends , what you 'd be doing if you was out there . |
| 25 | We arrived there on a wild morning in May , having the previous evening taken the ferry from Fishguard in Wales to Rosslare , Co Wexford , about 50 miles away . |
| 26 | We drive there on an empty street which is barely rubble , strewn with rusty cans that look like tankers , sweet wrappers , empty beer bottles and hordes of children shouting by the side of the road . |
| 27 | It will be based there for an experimental period of a year to evaluate suitability of the bay behind the power station as a permanent mooring for the lifeboat . |
| 28 | Many of them had spent weeks getting there on a dangerous journey from their homes in Sarajevo . |
| 29 | He felt pleased that she was known there as a married woman . |
| 30 | And Dr Charles Deering , who settled there after a wandering career , said that ‘ were a naturalist in Quest of an exquisite Spot to build a Town or a City , could he meet with one that would better answer his Wishes ? ’ |